Latest News

• share
• favorite_border

Scientists are watching carefully as the ozone layer, which protects animal and plant life from harmful solar ultraviolet radiation, begins an uncertain recovery.

• share
• favorite_border

AHRQ announced the availability of new sets of data files that provide information on demographics, charges and payment source, diagnoses, and discharge status for patients treated in outpatient surgery settings in Colorado, Florida, New Jersey, New York and Utah.

• share
• favorite_border

PhotoDetection Systems, Inc., has received a first round of venture funding in the amount of $2.75 million. The company develops advanced, low-cost, 3-D medical imaging systems that can detect very small tumors and determine whether or not they are malignant.

• share
• favorite_border

UW-Madison has an accomplished group of scientists working in the genomics field -- including some who participated in the federal Human Genome Project -- who are available to comment on the completion of the human genome sequence.

• share
• favorite_border

1- Computer-savvy students compete in Internet health-care challenge; 2- NSF-funded scientists discover bizarre 70-million-year-old crocodile fossil; 3- Researchers grant new life to old tires.

• share
• favorite_border

The federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality today unveiled a newly redesigned Web site that offers reporters easier access to AHRQ news and information through its online Newsroom.

• share
• favorite_border

Researchers and engineers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have won three R&D 100 Awards, pushing their national lab-leading total to 107 since the awards began in 1963.

• share
• favorite_border

A drug called oxcarbazepine that is safe and effective enough to be used alone in patients with partial epilepsy who do not respond to other anti-epileptic drugs is demonstrated by a study led by a University of Michigan neurologist (Neurology, 6-00).

• share
• favorite_border

Heart surgery patients who suffer severe problems after stents are inserted into their unclogged arteries are among those with medical implants who may benefit from a general anti-inflammatory surface treatment for biomedical materials, reported for the first time in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research.

• share
• favorite_border

Genetics researchers are teasing out details of how chromosome 22's unstable chemical structure renders it vulnerable to breaks and rearrangements, resulting in genetic disease (Human Molecular Genetics, 7-00).

• share
• favorite_border

Eating less may be good for the health of your brain, and may help keep debilitating ailments such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases at bay. That is the message from a study that employed a gene-scanning technique to analyze activity in thousands of genes in mice (Nature Genetics, 7-00).

• share
• favorite_border

A newly developed microcamera, which can be swallowed as a pill, provides wireless images of the inside of the intestine.

• share
• favorite_border

Engineer J. Robert Ashley considers the controversial subject of magnetic and electric fields generated by high-voltage transmission lines.

• share
• favorite_border

A fast-diversifying electronics industry is opening up new applications for microprocessors at every level of performance and offering architects more freedom to be creative.

• share
• favorite_border

Sophisticated computer simulators that mimic the look and feel of operating room procedures are now making inroads into medical education.

• share
• favorite_border

In what seems at first an obvious conclusion, researchers at Johns Hopkins and The National Institute on Drug Abuse have found that people who "do" both cocaine and alcohol risk a worse loss of brain function than those who frequently use either drug alone (Neurology, 6-26-00).

• share
• favorite_border

The blood vessels of older athletes behave like those of people half their age, according to a new study in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

• share
• favorite_border

The majority of people with cluster headaches may also have sleep disorders that trigger the attacks, according to a study in the June 27 Neurology.

• share
• favorite_border

Guidelines to help determine whether people with Alzheimer's disease should continue driving have been issued by AAN (Neurology, 6-27-00).

• share
• favorite_border

Researchers have shown for the first time that the human liver can regenerate its tissue with a cell type from outside the organ -- and they present the first compelling evidence that those stem cells are human bone marrow (HEPATOLOGY, 7-00).