University of Pennsylvania alumni Ralph J. Roberts and his son Brian L. Roberts have pledged $15 million to help create the first-of-its-kind proton therapy center for the treatment of cancer.
A new Surgical Simulation and Technology Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center, one of only a few hospital-based centers of its kind in the United States, will open on December 6, 2006. The center brings together a diverse group of experts to solve important challenges in surgery, such as how to improve and expand minimally invasive surgical procedures that enhance patient care, how to advance the design of surgical instruments and how to redesign operating rooms to prevent surgeons from suffering from shoulder and neck injuries.
A big explosion on wednesday morning in a building on Falk Corp.’s property in the Menomonee Valley killed at least three workers. The blast, which is being blamed on a propane leak, also injured 46 workers.
Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University are using data mining techniques to identify perpetrators of fraud among online auction users as well as their otherwise unknown accomplices.The new method analyzes publicly available histories of transactions posted by online auction sites such as eBay and identifies suspicious online behaviors and dubious associations among users.
The results of the first large-scale empirical study of how consumers consider risks and benefits when deciding whether to purchase or use specific nanotechnology products will appear in the December 2006 issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology. The article’s lead author, Steven C. Currall and co-author, Neal Lane, will report their findings at a program at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 5, at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Bill Clinton, former President of USA, says India is the new epicenter of the global pandemic of HIV. He commented this with British interviewers on the World AIDS Day.
David F. Savage, a 54-year-old Bay City, Michigan resident, joined a group of select men to become the third hand transplant recipient in US.
Two Iowa State University computer scientists are developing image-analysis software and related hardware that will measure the quality of colonoscopy procedures. Their goal is better procedures and better health for patients.
Many people don’t fully understand the seemingly simple label instructions on their prescription medication, according to a Northwestern University study of low-income patients. Nearly half of the patients in the study misinterpreted at least one or more out of the five prescription labels they were shown. Patients with low literacy made the most mistakes, but even people with a high-school education and higher had problems. The reason is awkward wording, according to the researcher.
It sounds like the stuff of a campy ’50s horror movie (“It Came from the Ice!”), but a Bowling Green State University biologist believes it’s a very real possibility.