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Sickle Cell Anemia Stroke Prevention Efforts May Have Decreased Racial Disparities
February 2, 2012 — The disparity in stroke-related deaths among black and white children dramatically narrowed after prevention strategies changed to include ultrasound screening and chronic blood transfusions for ... > full story -
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Bedwetting Can Be Due to Undiagnosed Constipation
January 27, 2012 — Bedwetting isn’t always due to problems with the bladder. Constipation is often the culprit; and if it isn’t diagnosed, children and their parents must endure an unnecessarily long, ... > full story -
New Tool Enhances View of Muscles
January 23, 2012 — New research is adding to the arsenal of increasingly sophisticated medical imaging tools with a new signal-processing method for viewing muscle activation details never seen before. A novel method ... > full story -
Advance Toward an Imaging Agent for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease
January 11, 2012 — Scientists are reporting development and initial laboratory tests of an imaging agent that shows promise for detecting the tell-tale signs of Alzheimer's disease in the brain -- signs that now can't ... > full story -
Why People Choose Running Over Walking
January 5, 2012 — Other than Olympic race walkers, people generally find it more comfortable to run than walk when they start moving at around two meters per second – about 4.5 miles per hour. Biomedical ... > full story -
Boy or Girl? Simple Blood Test in the First Trimester Predicts Fetal Gender
January 3, 2012 — New findings could lead to a non-invasive test allowing expecting mothers to learn the sex of their baby as early as the first trimester. Specifically, researchers discovered that various ratios of ... > full story -
New Study Shows Promise for Preventing Preterm Births
December 15, 2011 — A new study has found that applying vaginal progesterone to women who are at a high risk of preterm birth significantly decreased the odds of a premature ... > full story -
Researchers' New Recipe Cooks Up Better Tissue 'Phantoms'
November 30, 2011 — The precise blending of tiny particles and multicolor dyes transforms gelatin into a realistic surrogate for human tissue. These tissue mimics, known as "phantoms," provide an accurate proving ground ... > full story -
Microfabrication Breakthrough Could Set Piezoelectric Material Applications in Motion
November 17, 2011 — Integrating a complex, single-crystal material with "giant" piezoelectric properties onto silicon, engineers and physicists can fabricate low-voltage, near-nanoscale electromechanical devices that ... > full story -
Atherosclerotic Plaques' Downstream Spread Linked to Low Shear Stress
November 15, 2011 — In human coronary arteries, atherosclerotic plaques tend to spread downstream because of the changes in blood flow patterns the plaque causes, researchers have found. This insight comes from a study ... > full story
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