Bangladesh introduces new vaccine to prevent severe forms of child pneumonia and meningitis
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Today, Bangladesh introduces a new combination vaccine that will protect its children against five killer diseases in one injection, including, for the first time, the deadly bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) ...
Study uses bone marrow stem cells to regenerate skin
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A new study suggests that adult bone marrow stem cells can be used in the construction of artificial skin. The findings mark an advancement in wound healing and may be used to pioneer a method of organ reconstruction. The ...
Medical robotics expert explores the human-machine interface
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Jacob Rosen, associate professor of computer engineering at the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, is developing a wearable robotic "exoskeleton" that ...
Future of school textbooks written in cyberspace
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Northwest Missouri State University students started spring semester classes Monday, but many aren't lugging thick textbooks around campus.
Some United flights to offer Wi-Fi
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Some friendly skies are about to become a Wi-Fi hot spot.
Online tool for tracking family health history gets upgrade
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Consumers now have a new tool to organize and share their family health histories. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday released an updated version of its "My Family Health Portrait."
New tool could prevent needless stents and save money, cardiologist says
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Doctors may be implanting too many artery-opening stents and could improve patient outcomes — and ultimately save lives — if they did more in-depth measurements of blood flow in the vessels to the heart. That's the finding ...
Study examines live birth rates following in vitro fertilization
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Thirty years ago last summer, the world's first "test-tube" baby was born, and since then more than 1 million infants have been successfully conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), the technique in which a woman's ...
