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Biosensing Nanodevice To Revolutionize Health Screenings

One day soon a biosensing nanodevice may eliminate long lines at airport security checkpoints and revolutionize health screenings for diseases like ...  > full story

Fake Malaria Drugs Made In China: Tracking Down The Threat To Global Health

A unique collaboration between scientists, public health workers and police has led to the arrest by the Chinese authorities of ...  > full story

The Eyes Have It: Researchers Can Now Determine When A Human Was Born By Looking Into The Eyes Of The Dead

Using the radiocarbon dating method and special proteins in the lens of the eye, researchers can now establish, with relatively ...  > full story

New Microchip For PCR Testing At Crime Scenes, Doctors' Offices

Researchers in Hong Kong have miniaturized technology needed to perform the versatile polymerase chain reaction (PCR) -- widely ...  > full story

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  New Method For Processing Rape Evidence Could Eliminate Crime-lab Backlogs

  May 7, 2008 — Approximately 250,000 items of sexual assault evidence are mired in three- to 12-month backlogs awaiting analysis in US forensic laboratories. A forensic chemist has now developed a method for ... > full story
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  Psychiatric Profile Of Teenagers At Risk For Committing Violent Acts, School Shootings

  May 7, 2008 — A psychiatrist will present new research on the psychiatric factors that can lead to school shootings. The presentation will be mainly based on research of the 1999 Columbine high school shootings, ... > full story
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  'Crime Scene Investigation' Methods Could Help In The Battle Against Hospital Infections

  April 23, 2008 — Inspired by the popular television drama CSI, investigators in the Netherlands have trialed methods used by forensic scientists at crime scenes to highlight infection risks in their hospital. ... > full story
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  Handheld DNA Detector

  March 17, 2008 — Scientists have taken a mathematical approach to a biological problem -- how to design a portable DNA detector. A mathematical simulation shows how a new type of nanoscale transistor might be coupled ... > full story
• Children's Health
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  Steroids
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  Brothers And Sisters Of Abuse Victims Often Help Cover Up Or Even Commit Abuse, Study Suggests

  March 6, 2008 — Authorities often fail to recognize or treat the physic damage suffered by siblings in families where only one child is abused. In chilling anecdotes extrapolated from cases, the study chronicles how ... > full story
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  Violent Shaking Pulps The Infant Brain, Forensic Researchers Find

  January 8, 2008 — Each year in the United States, one thousand infants die after being shaken. An equal number of cases result in brain damage. Many people who are guilty of this type of abuse go free due to a lack of ... > full story
• Children's Health
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  ADD and ADHD
   

  Dads Break Bones Of Children More Often Than Moms

  December 6, 2007 — Dads break or fracture the bones of their children far more often than moms, and they tend to inflict their abusive rage on infants younger than five months old, according to a study in Child Abuse ... > full story
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  Forensics Go High-tech With CT Autopsies

  November 28, 2007 — Radiologists are investigating the use of computed tomography as a tool for civilian medical examiners' autopsies in the US. CT autopsy has the potential to replace conventional autopsy in ... > full story
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  New Automated System IDs Victims Of Mass Disasters In Minutes

  November 28, 2007 — A new, high-tech identification system developed in Japan will improve accuracy and significantly reduce the time it takes to identify victims of mass disasters, according to a new ... > full story
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  New Technique To Determine The Age Of Immigrant Minors Through Ribs And Teeth

  November 7, 2007 — Researchers have devised a new technique to determine the age of living subjects using chest and dental x-rays. This is of special interest in the case of alleged illegal minors, since this technique ... > full story

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