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Outpatient disc treatment gives long-term back pain relief

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A randomized, controlled study comparing standard conservative therapy to a minimally invasive treatment called percutaneous disc decompression for painful herniated disc revealed that while both treatments help patients ...


BUSM researcher solves mystery of 9-month-old

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A researcher from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has determined that a 9-month old infant who was admitted to a local Boston hospital with seizures and a bulging soft spot was actually suffering from rickets ...


It's the year of the terabyte

Technology / Hi Tech

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (9) | comments 22

I remember my first hard drive. Back then, getting a hard drive for your computer was tantamount to a rite of passage. It meant that you no longer had to struggle inserting floppy discs with their limited capacities and ...


Explosion on chip sets liquid in motion

Explosion on chip sets liquid in motion

Chemistry /

created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- PhD student, Dennis van den Broek, of the University of Twente, Netherlands, has developed a new type of miniature motor, the micro-bubble actuator. This ‘motor’, which can be used in laboratories ...


Overweight children may develop back pain and spinal abnormalities

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Being overweight as a child could lead to early degeneration in the spine, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).


Saturn's Old Moon Iapetus Retains Its Youthful Figure

Saturn's Old Moon Iapetus Retains Its Youthful Figure

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 17, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Saturn's distinctive moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) is cryogenically frozen in the equivalent of its teenage years. The moon has retained the youthful figure and bulging waistline it sported more than three ...


Brain surgery on Monday, home on Tuesday

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Norma Wooley checked into Loyola University Hospital on a recent Monday morning for brain surgery to repair a life-threatening aneurysm.


FDA approves cervical disk device

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 17, 2007 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Tuesday announced approval of the first device designed to treat cervical degenerative disc disease.


Spitzer Unveils Biggest Milky Way View at Adler Planetarium

Spitzer Unveils Biggest Milky Way View at Adler Planetarium

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's largest image of our Milky Way galaxy, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, went on display this week at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.


Study shows pregnant blue crabs at risk

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 08, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Virginia officials are considering scrapping a law enacted in 1996 that protects pregnant blue crabs in Virginia waters, especially near Hampton Roads.


Adjustable Fluidic Lenses for Eyesight Correction Applications

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Arizona have created a fluid-based opthalmic lens in which the amount of fluid can be constantly adjusted to provide customized eye correction. The lens may one day be incorporated ...


Statin cuts heart problems after artery surgery

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- Score another victory for the cheap, cholesterol-lowering wonder drugs known as statins. People getting an artery unclogged or repaired were much less likely to die or have a heart attack afterward if they took preventive ...


Researchers find new way to attack inflammation in Graves' eye disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A small group of patients with severe Graves' eye disease experienced rapid improvement of their symptoms — and improved vision — following treatment with the drug rituximab. Inflammation around their eyes and damage to the ...


Most babies with uncomplicated febrile seizures can avoid spinal tap

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When babies develop a fever high enough or abrupt enough to cause a seizure, frightened parents often rush them to the emergency room, where their workup frequently includes a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) to rule out bacterial ...


Brain activity linked to the parental instinct

Biology /

created Feb 27, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Why do we almost instinctively treat babies as special, protecting them and enabling them to survive? Darwin originally pointed out that there is something about infants which prompts adults to respond to and care for them ...