News tagged with catastrophic injuries
Policies on organ donation after cardiac death vary considerably among children's hospitals
Although a large number of children's hospitals have developed or are developing policies regarding organ donation after cardiac death, there is considerable variation among policies, including the criteria for declaring ...
May 12, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Search results for catastrophic injuries
Troubled freighter drifts toward Great Barrier Reef
A broken-down cargo ship was drifting towards the fringes of Australia's Great Barrier Reef Saturday, with fears of major damage if it were to run aground at the World Heritage-listed site.
May 19, 2012 |
2.5 / 5 (2) |
0
'Noodle gels' or 'spaghetti highways' could become tools of regenerative medicine
Medicine's recipe for keeping older people active and functioning in their homes and workplaces — and healing younger people injured in catastrophic accidents — may include "noodle gels" and other lab-made invisible ...
Mar 26, 2012 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
1
|
Researchers attack a stinker of a pest; iPhone users can help track the invader
A new hobo pest -- the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) -- is pigging out on many of North America's most important crops, posing an unprecedented threat to U.S. agriculture, say experts.
Oct 19, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
Fresh oil spills in N.Z's worst sea pollution disaster
New Zealand on Tuesday declared its worst maritime pollution disaster, as oil gushed into a pristine bay from a stranded container ship which was being pounded in heavy seas.
Oct 11, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
Giffords: A poignant presence, but out of view
(AP) -- It's a sight many Americans would surely love to see: a recovering Rep. Gabrielle Giffords watching as her astronaut husband blasts off into space.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 29, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
1
Potential treatment found for debilitating bone disease in wounded soldiers and children
Promising new research reveals a potentially highly effective treatment for heterotopic ossification (HO), a painful and often debilitating abnormal buildup of bone tissue. HO comes in two main forms—one that appears ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 03, 2011 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
|
We all live with low-level radiation; how harmful is it?
Don't worry too much about the hint of radiation reaching U.S. shores from the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan, experts say.
Mar 29, 2011 |
5 / 5 (2) |
1
Roundworm could provide new treatment for sepsis
Research by the University of Liverpool has found that systemic inflammation caused by sepsis can be suppressed by a protein which occurs naturally in a type of roundworm.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 08, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
A cardiac use for stem cells
It's one of the most vexing problems in medical science: How can you mend a broken heart?
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 21, 2011 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
0
New generation of prosthetic gets closer to the real limb
A UT Arlington bioengineer has built a neural interface that he thinks will lead to a better prosthetic arm that will allow more movement and eventually sensation for military veterans who desperately need them.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 10, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
List of search results for catastrophic injuries
