Search results for penetrating trauma
Study reveals cost of stabbings to Britain's health service
Aug 01, 2008 |
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Injuries caused by gun and knife crime are costing the National Health Service in excess of £3million a year, new research reveals.
Testing trauma cases for blood alcohol levels can identify high-risk patients
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Heavy drinking often leads to trauma, and can also complicate subsequent assessment and patient care. New findings show that testing for blood alcohol levels can identify high-risk patients, even if they previously denied ...
Using nanotech to make Robocops
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 31, 2007 |
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Bulletproof jackets do not turn security guards, police officers and armed forces into Robocops, repelling the force of bullets in their stride. New research in carbon nanotechnology however could give those in the line ...
The Physics of Explosives and Blast Helmets
Nov 25, 2008 |
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Of all the threats facing U.S. soldiers in combat, among the most dangerous are roadside bombs and other improvised explosive devices (IED's). At the 61st Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics ...
Tunnel vision: Border Patrol agents to spot tunnels with advanced ground-penetrating radar
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Criminals of all kinds are digging tunnels along the U.S. border at a fast and furious pace. Of every tunnel ever discovered by U.S. border patrol agents, 60 percent have been found in the last three years. ...
Nanotech coating could lead to better brain implants to treat diseases
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical and materials engineers at the University of Michigan have developed a nanotech coating for brain implants that helps the devices operate longer and could improve treatment for ...
Acupuncture eases chronic low back pain in SPINE trial
May 11, 2009 |
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Acupuncture can help people with chronic low back pain feel less bothered by their symptoms and function better in their daily activities, according to the largest randomized trial of its kind, published in the May 11, 2009 ...
Bottleneck in blood supply makes brain vulnerable to strokes
Jan 04, 2007 |
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A team of University of California, San Diego physicists and neuroscientists has discovered a bottleneck in the network of blood vessels in the brain that makes it vulnerable to strokes. The finding may explain the origin ...
Breaking the 'mucus barrier' with a new drug delivery system
Aug 20, 2008 |
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Chemical engineers from Johns Hopkins University have broken the "mucus barrier," engineering the first drug-delivery particles capable of passing through human mucus — regarded by many as nearly impenetrable ...
Mesh-like network of arteries adjusts to restore blood flow to stroke-injured brain
Jan 30, 2009 |
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A grid of small arteries at the surface of the brain redirects flow and widens at critical points to restore blood supply to tissue starved of nutrients and oxygen following a stroke, a study published this ...
Reading the brain without poking it
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Experimental devices that read brain signals have helped paralyzed people use computers and may let amputees control bionic limbs. But existing devices use tiny electrodes that poke into the brain. Now, a ...
Many Deaths Still Expected With Earth-Penetrating Nuclear Weapons
Apr 27, 2005 |
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A nuclear weapon that is exploded underground can destroy a deeply buried bunker efficiently and requires significantly less power to do so than a nuclear weapon detonated on the surface would, says a new report from the ...
Corneal transplant technique shows promise in children
Jul 15, 2008 |
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For infants and children with blinding diseases of the cornea, a sophisticated new corneal transplantation technique offers the hope of improving vision while overcoming the technical difficulty and low success rate of traditional ...
New cancer weapon: nuclear nanocapsules
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 23, 2007 |
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Rice University chemists have found a way to package some of nature's most powerful radioactive particles inside DNA-sized tubes of pure carbon -- a method they hope to use to target tiny tumors and even lone leukemia cells.
Nanoneedle is small in size, but huge in applications
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a membrane-penetrating nanoneedle for the targeted delivery of one or more molecules into the cytoplasm or the nucleus of living cells. ...
