Robot-assisted surgery dramatically improves outcomes in patients with uterine, endometrial, and cervical cancer. Moreover, because…
Month: January 2011
Tinnitus treatment: Rebooting the brain helps stop the ring of tinnitus in rats
Targeted nerve stimulation could yield a long-term reversal of tinnitus, a debilitating hearing impairment affecting…
Journalists to launch News Corp’s iPad newspaper (AP)
AP – Stop the presses — completely. The world’s first iPad newspaper, The Daily, is…
India’s Infosys reports 14.1% net profit rise (AFP)
AFP – Indian software exporter Infosys posted Thursday a 14.1 percent rise in consolidated net…
YouTube mobile video viewing tops 200 mln a day (AFP)
AFP – YouTube has said it is serving up more than 200 million videos daily…
Middle school is when the right friends may matter most
As adolescents move from elementary school into their middle or junior-high years, changes in friendships…
New laboratory aims to revolutionize surgery with real-time metabolic profiling
Metabolic profiling of tissue samples could transform the way surgeons make decisions in the operating…
MicroRNA-TP53 circuit connected to chronic lymphocytic leukemia
The interplay between a major tumor-suppressing gene, a truncated chromosome and two sets of microRNAs…
Under pressure: Stormy weather sensor for hurricane forecasting
It’s hard to believe that, in this day and age, we don’t have a way…
Delivering a potent cancer drug with nanoparticles can lessen side effects
Researchers have shown that they can deliver the cancer drug cisplatin much more effectively and…