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  Molecular Biologists Devise Strategy To Starve Brain Tumors

  Brain tumor researchers have found that brain tumors arise from cancer stem cells living within tiny protective areas formed by blood vessels in the brain. Killing those cells is a promising ... > more
• Today's Healthcare
  Medical Technology
  Brain Injury
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  Neurologists Use GPS For The Brain As Guide In Surgery

  Neurosurgeons' jobs are made easier by a 3-D CT scan produced by an advanced imaging system. It produces a computerized image of blood vessels and surrounding soft tissue, which can be rotated for ... > more
• Hearing Loss
  Hearing Impairment
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  Acoustics
  Perception
   
  

  Acoustic Device Allows Sound To Travel Through Bones

  Otolaryngologists develop a new, implantable hearing aid. It works with a transmitter worn behind the ear that sends sound vibrations from her deaf side through the skull to her good ear. It's ... > more
• Intelligence
  Brain Injury
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  Psychologists Use fMRI To Understand Ties Between Memories And The Imagination

  Psychologists have found that thought patterns used to recall the past and imagine the future are strikingly similar. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to show the brain at work, they have ... > more
• Acoustics
  Tinnitus
  Hearing Loss
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  Perception
  Workplace Health
   
  

  Acoustic Study Shows Safe Listening Levels

  Loud, sustained sound can damage tiny hairs in the cochlea, and yet 80 percent of people listen to personal music devices at dangerous levels above background noise, a study by acousticians shows. ... > more
• Perception
  Diseases and Conditions
  Hearing Loss
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  Cosmetic Surgery
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  Physiologists Investigate The Role Of Perception In Motion Sickness

  The cause of motion sickness is being investigated by a researcher with a new idea: that the cause is movement, not perceptual differences. A series of motion-sickness-inducing tests shows that those ... > more
• Epilepsy
  Epilepsy Research
  Medical Technology
  Neuroscience
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Brain Tumor
   
  

  Neurologists Use New Brain Scanning Device To Better Control Seizures

  Doctors are now using a new kind of brain scan called magnetoencephalography (MEG), which measures brain activity in real time. In some cases, MEG can pinpoint the source of an epileptic seizure much ... > more
• Today's Healthcare
  Language Acquisition
  Child Development
  Health Policy
  Wounds and Healing
  Elder Care
   
  

  Linguists Work With Medical Students To Help Them Relate To Spanish-speaking Patients

  A unique program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is helping health care professionals understand and treat patients better by teaching them how to communicate with patients who ... > more
• Marine Biology
  Fish
  Sea Life
  Genes
  Parkinson's
  Breast Cancer
   
  

  Sea Urchins' Genetics Add To Knowledge Of Cancer, Alzheimer's And Infertility

  Researchers are using the sea urchins to study and understand diseases like cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and muscular dystrophy. Although they are invertebrates, the creatures ... > more
• Medical Technology
  Today's Healthcare
  Computer Science
  Medical Imaging
  Kidney Disease
  Technology
   
  

  Computer Scientists Devise Tool For Visualizing Single Organs

  With MRI or CT scans, clinicians have to identify and extract the anatomy out of cross-sections views of the body. Computer scientists have created a new interactive tool that can examine scans and ... > more

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