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Minimally invasive sports hernia repair may get athletes 'back in the game' faster, study says
Science Blog | 4 hours 56 minutes ago
NEW ORLEANS, LA -- A new minimally invasive sports hernia repair gets athletes back in the game 3 times faster than the traditional repair, according to a new study presented today at the American...
Repair of torn knee meniscus at the time of ACL reconstruction is safe and effective for children
Science Blog | 5 hours 14 minutes ago
Eighty-four percent of children 18 and younger had successful clinical outcomes during an eight year follow-up to repair a torn meniscus (cartilage that provides cushioning to distribute your body...
'Tommy John' elbow reconstruction 95 percent successful with grown teen pitchers, study says
Science Blog | 5 hours 14 minutes ago
A new study presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Specialty Day in New Orleans, (March 13), found that 95 percent of skeletally mature high school pitchers...
New study finds 70 percent of able-bodied hockey players have abnormal hip and pelvis MRIs
Science Blog | 5 hours 14 minutes ago
NEW ORLEANS, LA -- Seventy percent of healthy professional and collegiate hockey players had abnormal hip and pelvis MRIs (magnetic resonance imaging), even though they had no symptoms of injury,...
15 years after ACL knee reconstruction, 84 percent of male patients still highly active, study says
Science Blog | 5 hours 43 minutes ago
Eighty-four percent of males who had ACL knee (anterior cruciate ligament) reconstruction with a patellar tendon (the tendon that attaches the knee to the front of the tibia or shin bone) graft...
BIO Whitepaper: Biotech Chemical Platforms to Create Green Jobs
BioTech Weblog, The | 7 hours 20 minutes ago
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) has released a white paper on the growth and jobs potential of green chemicals and briefed Congressional staff on the commercial status of industrial biotechnologies for algae applications, biobased products, and advanced biofuels. The white paper, Biobased Chemicals and Products: A New Driver of U.S. Economic Development and Green Jobs (pdf file), indicats that the biobased chemicals and plastics industry accounts for over 5,700 direct jobs and ...
Ampicillin Hleps May Help in the Treatment of Torsion Dystonia
BioTech Weblog, The | 7 hours 20 minutes ago
Photo: Dystonia DreamsIn the latest issue of the journal Disease Models & Mechanisms, scientists report of ampicillin's potential in the treatment of early-onset torsion dystonia. Torsion dystonia (also called idiopathic or generalized torsion dystonia) is a movement disorder characterized by sustained muscle contractions, usually producing twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures. It is not fatal, but severely debilitating, eventually necessitating the use of wheelchai...
Look at Mie!
Science Blog | 13 hours 4 minutes ago
HOUSTON -- (March 12, 2010) -- Calculations are fine, but seeing is believing. That's the thought behind a new paper by Rice University students who decided to put to the test calculations made...
Tropical Storm Tomas approaching Nadi this weekend
Science Blog | 13 hours 35 minutes ago
Tropical Storm Tomas is on a southern track in the South Pacific Ocean, and residents of Nadi, Fiji will be watching it as it approaches the eastern side of the island late this weekend. A tropical...
AgriLife scientists do groundwork for genetic mapping of algae biofuel species
Science Blog | 13 hours 41 minutes ago
COLLEGE STATION - - Using green algae to produce hydrocarbon oil for biofuel production is nothing new; nature has been doing so for hundreds of millions of years, according a Texas AgriLife Research...
A golden bullet for cancer
Science Blog | 13 hours 41 minutes ago
In a lecture he delivered in 1906, the German physician Paul Ehrlich coined the term Zuberkugel, or "magic bullet," as shorthand for a highly targeted medical treatment. Magic bullets, also called...
NASA's Aqua Satellite shows strong convection in Tropical Storm Ului
Science Blog | 13 hours 54 minutes ago
NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Tropical Storm Ului during the morning hours (Eastern Time) on March 12 and noticed a large area of strong convection in the storm's center, indicating strengthening.
GOES-12 captures south Atlantic Tropical Storm 90Q far from Argentina's coast
Science Blog | 13 hours 54 minutes ago
The second?ever known tropical cyclone in the South Atlantic Ocean can't escape satellite eyes, and today, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-12 captured a visible image of...
Chinese medicine societies reject tiger bones ahead of CITES conference
Science Blog | 13 hours 54 minutes ago
Doha, Qatar -- WWF and TRAFFIC welcome a World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS) statement urging its members not to use tiger bone or any other parts from endangered wildlife.
New study identifies best treatment for childhood epilepsy
Science Blog | 14 hours 24 minutes ago
PORTLAND, Ore. -- One of the oldest available anti-seizure medications, ethosuximide, is the most effective treatment for childhood absence epilepsy, according to initial outcomes published in this...
Foiling an attack on general relativity
Science Blog | 15 hours 31 minutes ago
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity explains gravity in terms of the curvature of space by mass. Dating from the second decade of the 20th century, after more than 90 years it is still the basis...
NIH Research Radio - March 12, 2010
Science Blog | 15 hours 49 minutes ago
#0105 Report from NIH Research Radio - Topics for Friday, March 12, 2010 Coming up in this episode a pair of reports on Autism Spectrum Disorders, the latest research there; some new knowledge...
Mine Injuries Rise Right After Daylight Saving Time
Science Blog | 15 hours 49 minutes ago
Don t forget to move your clocks forward this weekend. And then don t forget to be more careful in the days after you adjust your clocks. Because a recent study found that the hour of lost sleep was...
Some older ER patients are getting the wrong medicines, U-M study finds
Science Blog | 17 hours 39 minutes ago
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- A University of Michigan study recently published in Academic Emergency Medicine says that it is common for patients 65 and older to receive potentially inappropriate medications...
41 days and counting
Science Blog | 17 hours 58 minutes ago
I m sure it will come as no surprise, that on the week that programmes have been released for the Second BHD Symposium (both the scientific and patient-orientated sessions), I have chosen to talk...
Princeton scientists say Einstein's theory applies beyond the solar system
Science Blog | 18 hours 16 minutes ago
A team led by Princeton University scientists has tested Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity to see if it holds true at cosmic scales. And, after two years of analyzing astronomical data,...
ATS issues statement on disorder of respiratory and autonomic nervous system regulation
Science Blog | 18 hours 16 minutes ago
The American Thoracic Society has released a new official clinical policy statement on congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), a disorder of respiratory and autonomic nervous system (ANS)...
'Microtentacles' on tumor cells appear to play role in how breast cancer spreads
Science Blog | 18 hours 55 minutes ago
Researchers at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center have discovered that "microtentacles," or extensions of the plasma membrane of breast cancer cells, appear to...
Exercising just got easier for busy people, study shows
Science Blog | 18 hours 55 minutes ago
HAMILTON, CANADA: MARCH 11, 2010 ?If you're the type of person who invokes the "not enough time" clause when it comes to exercising, it's time to find a new excuse.
Phylogenetic analysis of Mexican cave scorpions suggests adaptation to caves is reversable
Science Blog | 19 hours 49 minutes ago
Blind scorpions that live in the stygian depths of caves are throwing light on a long-held assumption that specialized adaptations are irreversible evolutionary dead-ends.
The use of cover crops in vineyards can help control the yield and quality of grapes and wine
Science Blog | 19 hours 49 minutes ago
Correct management of soil and irrigation is a vital factor in modern viticulture, due to the influence of the water balance of the vineyard on wine quality and the environmental impact of...
Securities analysts' reports new technology slow adoption, warns study in INFORMS journal
Science Blog | 19 hours 49 minutes ago
The reluctance of securities analysts to recommend investment in veteran companies using new techniques to grapple with radical technological change may be harming these companies as they struggle to...
Gene Target Beats Oil Remedy
Science Blog | 19 hours 55 minutes ago
The 1992 tearjerker Lorenzo s Oil told the true story of one family s struggle to save their son from X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), a deadly degenerative brain disease. Unfortunately, over the...
Readers Respond on "A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030"
Science Blog | 20 hours 56 minutes ago
Winds of Change I found it surprising that in A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030 , Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi do not mention the effects of the suggested energy sources on climate....
CEIT-IK4 designs tool for operations on people with severe or profound auditory loss
Science Blog | 20 hours 56 minutes ago
A team of engineers from the CEIT-IK4 technological centre and doctors from the University Hospital of Navarra have designed a new tool for operating on the inner ear with maximum precision, reducing...
The new exercise HIT: do less
Science Blog | 20 hours 56 minutes ago
The usual excuse of "lack of time" for not doing enough exercise is blown away by new research published in The Journal of Physiology.
Pancreatic cancer study reveals mechanism initiating disease, in mice
Science Blog | 20 hours 56 minutes ago
UCSF scientists have discovered how a mutated gene known as Kras is able to hijack mouse cells damaged by acute pancreatitis, putting them on the path to becoming pancreatic cancer cells.
Tumor surgery impairs sexuality
Science Blog | 20 hours 56 minutes ago
Sexual problems are frequent after operations for carcinoma of the rectum. Christian Schmidt et al. describe the consequences for quality of life in the current issue of Deutsches rzteblatt...
Improved patient care with telemonitoring
Science Blog | 20 hours 56 minutes ago
Telemonitoring may reduce the mortality of patients with heart failure by 20%. Silke Schmidt et al. present their study results in the current issue of Deutsches rzteblatt International (Dtsch...
Condoms for the World Cup and other ways to keep HIV at bay
Science Blog | 22 hours 20 minutes ago
MIAMI--In three months, hundreds of thousands of soccer fans are expected to descend on nine South African cities for the 2010 World Cup. But for so many visitors going to a country where more than...
A sporting chance for active total knee replacement patients
Science Blog | 23 hours 7 minutes ago
Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) patients may be able to participate in high-impact sports without increasing risk of early implant failure, according to a new study presented today at the 2010 Annual...
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