The first total hip replacement using a joint socket lined with a novel material have been performed by surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The novel material is an advance over...
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According to a study published in the July 24, 2007 issue of Neurology® (the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology), people with serious cases of writer's cramp have brain...
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With the $2.5 million grant received from the National Institutes of Health, University of Florida researchers from the College of Medicine, the College of Engineering and the McKnight Brain Institute...
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The new powered ankle-foot prosthesis developed by a team in MIT got off on the right foot during a ceremony at the Providence, R.I., Veterans Affairs Medical Center, wherein an army amputee - Garth...
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Almost $9M in grants has been received by Biodesign Institute for the development of a preventive vaccine against cancer. Stephen Albert Johnston, PhD, director of the institute's Center for...
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According to a new research from India, mango peel extract is a rich, inexpensive source of antioxidants that can be potentially used in nutraceuticals and functional foods. As reported in the journal...
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A study from the U.S. and Canada provides evidence that the regular use of plant sterol esters in capsule form was able to improve the blood lipid levels and may reduce the risk of heart disease....
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A novel biomaterial with surprising antibacterial properties that can be injected as a low-viscosity gel into a wound where it rigidifies nearly on contact-opening the door to the possibility of...
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Potentially replacing the traditional cocktail drug approach, a team from the University of Minnesota's Center for Drug Design have developed a new method to combat HIV/AIDS. The new approach -...
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A unique non-invasive weight loss procedure that uses a new device that reduces the size of a patient's stomach without the need for any incisions have been performed by a bariatric surgery team...
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At the 12th congress of the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics in Vancouver, the new high-tech bionic hand with five motorized fingers, invented in Scotland, will be unveiled....
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The British-American company Acambis is testing for the first time in humans, the universal influenza vaccine - ACAM-FLU-A - pioneered by researchers from VIB and Ghent University. In the 1990s, VIB...
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Cervical degenerative disc disease is one of the most common causes of neck and arm pain. Made by Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Prestige Cervical Disc is the first artificial cervical (neck) disc for the...
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Amyloid beta proteins are the plaques that develop in the brain and believed to be the cause of Alzheimer's disease. Now, researchers have been able to isolate bisdemethoxycurcumin, the active...
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Now breast cancer patients may be able to forgo an invasive procedure to determine if their cancer has metastasized or spread in other parts of the body. A Johnson & Johnson company - Veridex -...
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Austrian researchers have developed a miniaturized, flexible fiber tips for allowing the laser to be used in endodontic (root canal) treatment. Such high-tech dental lasers which were mainly used to...
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Virginia Tech and UC-Berkeley biomedical engineers have joined forces in the development of a novel minimally invasive method of treating cancer. The process called irreversible electroporation (IRE)...
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The amount of build-up of fat in the deep belly, surrounding the abdominal organs- or visceral fat - is linked to insulin resistance, type diabetes and heart disease risk and so poses a particular...
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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a disorder that causes extreme fatigue - the kind that doesn't go away even after the individual has rested, it lasts an unusually long time that prevents the...
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Manufacturesd by a Basque biotechnology company, Progenika Biopharma - BLOODchip® - is a DNA biochip which greatly eliminates the risk of adverse reactions due to incompatibility in blood groups...
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