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  Neurosurgeon Devises MRI-Based Technique to Diagnose Sciatica

  Up to 40 million American suffer from sciatica pains, but the condition is often not diagnosed correctly. A new imaging technique uses a specially tuned MRI scan to image nerves and highlight them ... > more
• Weather
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  Meteorologists Can Now Issue Precise Local Excessive-Heat Warnings

  Heat kills more people than tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning and flash floods -- combined. The National Weather Service now gives heat-wave warnings to better forecast local conditions for 16 ... > more
• Computers and Internet
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  Physicists' Invention Opens Access to Computers for Persons with Tremors

  For $100, people with tremors could finally be able to use a computer mouse. A new mouse adapter filters out the high-frequency, shaky component of the movement, transmitting only the steady ... > more
• Heart Disease
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  Cardiologists Treat Leg Pain with Balloon Angioplasty

  Doctors now use cold angioplasty to restore blood flow to the legs and relieve chronic leg pain. The procedure, where cold nitrous oxide inflates a balloon inside arteries to unclog them, is similar ... > more
• Acoustics
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  Acousticians Improve Sound Quality of Cochlear Implants

  In a new study, 34 normal-hearing and 18 cochlear-implant subjects were tested on three speech-perception tasks known to be notoriously difficult for cochlear-implant users: speech recognition with a ... > more

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