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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have known for 40 years that even though it takes longer to use sign language to sign individual words, sentences can be signed, on average, in the same time it takes to say them, but until now they have never understood how this could be possible. http://www.physorg.com/news180085938.html Technology Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:00:01 EST news180085938 (AP) -- A group of European scientists said Wednesday they have successfully connected a robotic hand to an amputee, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts. http://www.physorg.com/news178976346.html Medicine & Health Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:39:47 EST news178976346 Forget the Transformers and Astroboy: Japan's latest robots don't save the world -- they cook snacks, play with your kids, model clothes, and search for disaster victims. http://www.physorg.com/news178439624.html Electronics Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:34:40 EST news178439624 A team of researchers from Boston University School (BUSM), Carney Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance and Tufts University School of Medicine, have found that widespread poor compliance with regular cleaning of public restrooms on cruise ships may predict subsequent norovirus infection outbreaks (NoVOs). This study, which appears in the November 1st issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, is the first study of environmental hygiene on cruise ships. http://www.physorg.com/news176387476.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:50:03 EST news176387476 (PhysOrg.com) -- Developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Italy, the Smart Hand project has given patient, Robin af Ekenstam (see video) the sense of touch in his new prosthesis hand. http://www.physorg.com/news175354299.html Electronics Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:34:32 EST news175354299 (PhysOrg.com) -- A flint hand axe that helped reveal the very ancient age of humankind goes on display at the Natural History Museum October 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news175185404.html Other Sciences Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:50:01 EST news175185404 Researchers said Thursday they uncovered evidence that a Canadian tobacco company destroyed scientific data it had decades ago showing that cigarettes were addictive and caused cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news174894267.html Medicine & Health Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:40:01 EST news174894267 (AP) -- The mother of the nation's first double hand transplant patient says he's out of the hospital and looking forward to returning to his wife and daughter in Georgia. http://www.physorg.com/news173593423.html Medicine & Health Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:40:01 EST news173593423 Although hospital computer equipment can act as a reservoir for pathogenic organisms, including MRSA, researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases found that bacterial contamination rates from computer equipment were low, possibly as the result of good hand hygiene. http://www.physorg.com/news173560681.html Medicine & Health Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:30:02 EST news173560681 The Virginia Tech College of Engineering's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) has captured another top award for its updated innovative robotic hand that can automatically change its grasping force using compressed air. http://www.physorg.com/news173365028.html Technology Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:20:01 EST news173365028 A wireless, credit-card-sized sensor that can detect whether health care workers have properly washed their hands upon entering a patient's room is being studied at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. The device could greatly reduce the number of hospital acquired infections nationwide since most are transmitted through contact due to poor hand-washing practice. http://www.physorg.com/news172334382.html Medicine & Health Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:40:01 EST news172334382 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the Department of Orthopaedics at Stony Brook University Medical Center have developed an injectable form of the enzyme, collagenase, that significantly improves outcomes of Dupuytren`s contracture (or disease), a debilitating disorder caused by progressive accumulation of collagen that deforms fingers and limits motion. http://www.physorg.com/news172324225.html Medicine & Health Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:00:02 EST news172324225 As public health experts warn of potential widespread outbreaks of H1N1 flu this school year, a new study from North Carolina State University shows that students do not comply with basic preventative measures as much as they think do. In other words, the kids aren't washing their hands. http://www.physorg.com/news171806155.html Medicine & Health Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:06:36 EST news171806155 (PhysOrg.com) -- A giant African lake basin is providing information about possible migration routes and hunting practices of early humans in the Middle and Late Stone Age periods, between 150,000 and 10,000 years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news171790409.html Other Sciences Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:33:53 EST news171790409 The path to poor hand sanitation is paved with good intentions, according to researchers from Kansas State and North Carolina State Universities. http://www.physorg.com/news171284361.html Medicine & Health Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:03:54 EST news171284361 The hot back-to-school item for college students? A thermometer. And a plan to go home or hunker down in a dorm room if the swine flu strikes. http://www.physorg.com/news169964686.html Medicine & Health Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:50:02 EST news169964686 As flu season draws nearer along with the potential for resurgence in H1N1, leading infectious diseases doctors, hospital epidemiologists, and infection preventionists urge officials to base recommendations for the public and healthcare workers on scientific knowledge and frontline experience gained from the outbreak this summer. http://www.physorg.com/news169300539.html Medicine & Health Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:10:04 EST news169300539 (PhysOrg.com) -- Whether you`re a lefty or righty, chances are you never thought your dominant hand played a role in the decisions you make. But what may seem as an unimportant trait might actually influence everything from what cereal you buy to whom you vote for, according to a study by Daniel Casasanto, who conducted the research as a postdoctoral scholar in psychology at Stanford. http://www.physorg.com/news168797115.html Medicine & Health Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:06:16 EST news168797115 When you feel you are being touched, usually someone or something is physically touching you and you perceive that your "self" is located in the same place as your body. In new research published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE, neuroscientists at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, investigated the relationship between bodily self-consciousness and the way touch stimuli are spatially represented in humans. They found that sensations of touch can be felt and mislocalised towards where a "virtual" body is seen. These findings will provide new avenues for the animation of virtual worlds and machines. http://www.physorg.com/news168675824.html Medicine & Health Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:50:01 EST news168675824 (AP) -- The nation's first double hand transplant patient can wriggle his new fingers a litte bit now and grab a tennis ball, but what he really wants to do is be able to feel his wife's hands when he holds them. http://www.physorg.com/news167028179.html Medicine & Health Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:44:04 EST news167028179 (PhysOrg.com) -- Children and adults who build castles and dig in the sand at the beach are at greater risk of developing gastrointestinal diseases and diarrhea than people who only walk on the shore or swim in the surf, according to researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.physorg.com/news166372659.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:38:24 EST news166372659 "Push your finger as hard as you can against the surface. Now as hard as you can but move it slowly - follow the ticking clock. Now faster. Now faster." http://www.physorg.com/news166251775.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:03:15 EST news166251775 A team of Rice University bioengineering students who invented a device to measure intrinsic hand muscle strength has won two prestigious honors for their patent-pending creation, PRIME. The device could revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of hand injuries and neurological disorders, specifically carpal tunnel syndrome. http://www.physorg.com/news166197262.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:55:05 EST news166197262 BETHESDA, Md. (June 15, 2009) A person whose hand function has been affected by a stroke can release an object more quickly when the affected arm is supported on a platform, but the support does not make it easier to grip the object, according to a new study. The study also found that active muscle-stretching exercises improved how quickly the stroke survivor could grip an object, but made release of the object more difficult. These findings show how a stroke affects hand function, and provide a roadmap for rehabilitation. http://www.physorg.com/news164263465.html Medicine & Health Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:44:50 EST news164263465 Call it a Breathalyzer for the hands. Using sensors capable of detecting drugs in breath, new technology developed at University of Florida monitors health-care workers' hand hygiene by detecting sanitizer or soap fumes given off from their hands. http://www.physorg.com/news163256409.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:00:50 EST news163256409 A new study published by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reveals that one of the most common conditions caused by Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is best treated surgically, sooner rather than later. http://www.physorg.com/news163176812.html Medicine & Health Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:53:59 EST news163176812 Everyone knows how to wash their hands. Warm water, lots of soap, a vigorous and thorough scrubbing, a good drying. Moms pound it into us from the time we're toddlers. http://www.physorg.com/news162884616.html Medicine & Health Sat, 30 May 2009 06:44:15 EST news162884616 Some cities and states around the country have completely banned smoking in public places. Others have instituted partial bans to avoid negative economic consequences, such as loss of employment in restaurants and bars due to reduced patronage by smokers. But a new study from Minnesota finds that there is no significant difference between partial bans, complete bans and even no bans, in terms of their impact on number of employees in restaurants and bars. http://www.physorg.com/news161862784.html Medicine & Health Mon, 18 May 2009 10:53:55 EST news161862784 (AP) -- Valarie Kepner was so excited at learning last fall that doctors might be able give her husband new hands that she called the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center without telling him first. http://www.physorg.com/news160983627.html Medicine & Health Fri, 08 May 2009 06:40:51 EST news160983627 (AP) -- The first U.S. double hand transplant is taking place at a Pittsburgh hospital. http://www.physorg.com/news160719520.html Medicine & Health Tue, 05 May 2009 05:40:40 EST news160719520