University of Virginia Engineering School Associate Professor William F. Walker and Research Associate Francesco Viola have developed a new tool ? an advanced imaging algorithm ? that is, quite literally, transforming the way we see things.
Hospitalized patients make a great captive audience for smoking cessation efforts, according to a new systematic review. The researchers found that when smokers become hospital inpatients, regardless of the reason for admission, they are receptive to efforts to help them to quit smoking after discharge and more likely succeed in the long run.
Your ability to listen to a phone message in one ear while a friend is talking into your other ear?and comprehend what both are saying?is an important communication skill that?s heavily influenced by your genes, say researchers of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), one of the National Institutes of Health.
The British doctor, who first suggested a link between the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine and autism, is facing charges of serious professional misconduct, an inquiry into his fitness to practise in UK.
UCLA scientists, along with collaborators from Purdue University, have demonstrated that HIV protease inhibitors ? crucial drugs for HIV treatment ? block a cellular enzyme important for generating the structural scaffolding for the cell nucleus.
An article published today, July 16, 2007, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides strong evidence for a novel type of communication between nerve cells in the brain.
Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, a rare and mysterious cancer, is on the rise, according to the first nationwide study of the disease in a decade.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine identified a combination therapy as a way to sensitize resistant human cancer cells to a treatment currently being tested in clinical trials.
The rate of cases of colitis (colon inflammation) caused by the bacteria Clostridium difficile more than doubled among patients hospitalized in the United States between 1993 and 2003, and the illness was more severe and associated with an increased mortality rate, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
While children who have had brain tumors perform worse in school than healthy kids, grades in foreign language are the most affected and girls have a harder time than boys in getting good grades, according to a study published in the July 17, 2007, issue of Neurology?, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.