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Ringxiety - phantom rings from your cell phone

A new study found that two thirds of the people surveyed, reported hearing their phone ring or feeling it vibrate when it had not actually rung.

17 Sep 2007

University patents and scientific discoveries

As universities continue transforming scientific discoveries into potentially lucrative patents, many wonder how this might be transforming academic science itself.

17 Sep 2007

N-cofilin molecule protects from neuronal disorders

Many neuronal disorders, including epilepsy, schizophrenia and lissencephaly – a form of mental retardation - result from abnormal migration of nerve cells during the development of the brain.

17 Sep 2007

It's back to the dark ages...hookworms to treat asthma!

Modern medicine may have stopped short of blood-letting, leeches and purges but parasitic worms could be making a come-back!

17 Sep 2007

Screening all babies for high cholesterol could save many lives

Doctors in the UK say in order to reduce the number of people suffering from heart disease children as young as 15 months should be screened for high cholesterol.

17 Sep 2007

Byproduct of cholesterol interferes with the beneficial effects of estrogen on the heart

A new study possibly offers a biological reason why hormone replacement therapy (HRT) fails to protect some postmenopausal women from heart disease.

17 Sep 2007

Confused about what to eat to remain healthy?...join the club!

It seems you are in good company as many people are unaware how to follow a healthy, balanced diet.

17 Sep 2007

China culls 33,000 ducks to contain bird flu outbreak

Authorities in China say a suspected outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been discovered among ducks in an outlying district of the southern city of Guangzhou.

17 Sep 2007

Canadian woman at risk from handling bat with rabies

Health authorities in Canada are searching for a woman who took an injured bat to a Toronto Wildlife centre.

17 Sep 2007

Chronic fatigue syndrome linked to common stomach virus

A new study has provided some clues to the cause of the mystery illness called chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).

17 Sep 2007

Foot and mouth far from over in Britain

The foot and mouth crisis in Britain is far from over with the discovery of more cases at another farm in Surrey.

17 Sep 2007

Study of new epilepsy treatment underway at URMC

The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) is participating in a multi-center study of a new medical device to treat epilepsy. The Rochester study is being overseen by neurologists Michel Berg, M.D. and James Fessler, M.D., and neurosurgeons Web Pilcher, M.D., Ph.D. and Jason Schwalb, M.D.

15 Sep 2007

Agfa HealthCare signs multi-million dollar five-year radiology informatics agreement with Adventist Health System

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, announces today that it has inked a second, five-year agreement to provide Enterprise PACS technology for the entire Florida Division of Adventist Health System (Orlando, Florida, US).

14 Sep 2007

IMPACT: Increasing clinical trial participation

Before a new treatment for a disease like cancer becomes available, physician-researchers must recruit hundreds or thousands of patients to participate in clinical research trials.

14 Sep 2007

Loneliness can damage your health

A team of researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) may have found a genetic reason why lonely people have poorer health.

14 Sep 2007

For teenage girls dieting and smoking go hand in hand

According to the latest research teenage girls who diet are twice as likely to start smoking as their non-dieting peers.

14 Sep 2007

Exercising in bad air could be a killer

A new study by British and Swedish researchers has found that air pollution could potentially harm the blood vessels and clotting abilities of people with heart disease.

14 Sep 2007

Attention turns to brain as driver of Chronic Fatigue symptoms

New research from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has delivered a final blow to the theory that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is driven by the body's immune system and in particular by its production of cytokines.

14 Sep 2007

Zebrafish shed light on human mitochondrial diseases

Zebrafish can now be used to study COX deficiencies in humans, a discovery that gives scientists an unprecedented window to view the earliest stages of mitochondrial impairments that lead to potentially fatal metabolic disorders, according to researchers at the University of Oregon.

13 Sep 2007

Potential solution to Candida parapsilosis infection

Infection with the fungus Candida parapsilosis is a major problem for individuals in intensive care units, as well as for premature infants and immunocompromised adults.

13 Sep 2007