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MIT student develops new innovations to selectively kill cancer cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 03, 2009 |
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When it comes to solving complex problems, Geoffrey von Maltzahn, MIT graduate student and biomedical engineer, looks to nature for solutions. Finding inspiration in systems that evolution has produced, von ...
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High-tech innovations needed to help prevent economic crisis in health care and improve quality
Aug 22, 2008 |
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The United States should develop a comprehensive strategy on the growing need for technological innovations to help prevent the impending economic crisis in health care and to improve the quality and convenience of care, ...
Google refines searches for pictures and news
Apr 21, 2009 |
2.5 / 5 (4) |
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Google on Monday unveiled software tools that let people search the Internet using pictures or chronologically organize results of queries for news.
The downside of a good idea
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 20, 2008 |
4.6 / 5 (16) |
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Good ideas can have drawbacks. When information is freely shared, good ideas can stunt innovation by distracting others from pursuing even better ideas, according to Indiana University cognitive scientist Robert Goldstone.
Can payment and other innovations improve the quality and value of health care?
Jan 27, 2009 |
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A paramount topic at the moment is value in health care: What should we pay for and how much? Resources aren't unlimited, and desires or demands for health care should be balanced against various realities--including the ...
Helium helps lung patients breathe easier
Mar 09, 2009 |
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New research published in the international journal Chest, by Neil Eves, PhD, finds that people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who breathed a mix of 60% helium and 40% oxygen during a rehabilitation progra ...
Schwarzenegger, 'green' gadgets at giant high-tech fair
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 01, 2009 |
3.7 / 5 (10) |
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The world's biggest high-tech fair kicks off Tuesday hosting guest-of-honour Arnold Schwarzenegger and offering cutting-edge solutions promising to beat the economic crisis as well as climate change.
IBM Research Unleashes Powerful Speech Software
Aug 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM today announced the availability of state-of-the-art speech recognition software to clients and partners exploring the development of real-world consumer and business solutions.
Clinical trials' review finds only exercise to prevent low-back problems
Feb 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Low-back pain continues to impose a huge burden on industrialized societies, in terms of symptoms, medical costs, productivity, and work absence. Annual costs related to back pain in the United States alone ...
Trimming US health care spending will require new approaches, study finds
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Slowing the growth in U.S. health care spending will most likely require adoption of an array of strategies as well as an improved approach to moving promising strategies into widespread use, according to a new analysis by ...
US wages war on bugs afflicting troops abroad
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Fluorescent rodent feces, a promising new mosquito repellant and a better flytrap are all part of a war on bugs designed to protect U.S. troops around the world.
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