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Polarized filter may reduce unnecessary cervical biopsies and surgeries

The same filtered light that enables sunglasses to reduce glare may improve a physician's ability to detect early signs of cervical cancer, reducing unnecessary biopsies and surgery.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Using math and light to detect misshapen red blood cells

Misshapen red blood cells (RBCs) are a sign of serious illnesses, such as malaria and sickle cell anemia. Until recently, the only way to assess whether a person's RBCs were the correct shape was to look at ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers transform iPhone into high-quality medical imaging device

In a feat of technology tweaking that would rival MacGyver, a team of researchers from the University of California, Davis has transformed everyday iPhones into medical-quality imaging and chemical detection ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Performing blood counts automatically

If a blood count is abnormal, the medical laboratory scientist has to manually perform a differential blood count analysis. This costs time and money. The computer-assisted blood cell analysis system HemaCAM by the company ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UCLA engineer's telemedicine invention poised to begin trials in Africa

Cell phones are accumulating a Swiss Army Knife-esqe assortment of capabilities; substituting as cameras, providing internet access, and soon operating as medical labs if Aydogan Ozcan's plans come to fruition. This month's ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Overtreated: More medical care isn't always better

(AP) -- More medical care won't necessarily make you healthier - it may make you sicker. It's an idea that technology-loving Americans find hard to believe.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Engineer invents world's smallest, lightest telemedicine microscope

Aydogan Ozcan, whose invention of a novel lensless imaging technology for use in telemedicine could radically transform global health care, has now taken his work a step further -- or tinier: The UCLA engineer ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 22, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Peru town copes with being devoured by mine

(AP) -- The mile-wide gash grows almost daily with each dynamite blast, slowly devouring this bleak provincial capital high in the Andes.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 18, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Researchers discover novel method for detecting MIRCERA

Austrian researchers have successfully developed a new electrophoretic method for detecting MIRCERAŽ and other erythropoietins (EPO) in the blood. The technique, using SARCOSYL-PAGE, has specifically enhanced sensitivity ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Orangutans struggle to survive as palm oil booms

Cinta, a baby orangutan found lost and alone in a vast Borneo palm oil plantation, now clings to a tree at a sanctuary for the great apes, staring intently at dozens of tourists.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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