News tagged with center of excellence

Complications, death rates similar at bariatric surgery centers of excellence, other hospitals

Patients who undergo bariatric surgery at hospitals designated as centers of excellence do not appear to have lower mortality rates or lower rates of complications than those whose procedures are performed at other hospitals, ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Tool-wielding robots crawl in bodies for surgery

Imagine a tiny snake robot crawling through your body, helping a surgeon identify diseases and perform operations.

Electronics / Robotics

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Device may inject a variety of drugs without using needles

Getting a shot at the doctor’s office may become less painful in the not-too-distant future.

Technology / Engineering

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

TRMM satellite sees heavy rainfall in Tropical Storm Bud

Tropical Storm Bud is dropping heavy rainfall, and appears to be intensifying. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite has been monitoring rainfall within the storm, and has watched it ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Better, stronger, lighter armor

What makes a piece of armor effective? Sure, it needs to be strong, and it should be lightweight. But what is it about a material's composition that gives it such properties? And can we develop materials that ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Availability of hydrogen controls chemical structure of graphene oxide

A new study shows that the availability of hydrogen plays a significant role in determining the chemical and structural makeup of graphene oxide, a material that has potential uses in nano-electronics, nano-electromechanical ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Strategy discovered to activate genes that suppress tumors and inhibit cancer

(Medical Xpress) -- A team of scientists has developed a promising new strategy for "reactivating" genes that cause cancer tumors to shrink and die. The researchers hope that their discovery will aid in the ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New technique detects trace levels of new class of cancer biomarkers

(Phys.org) -- In less than a decade, a new type of RNA — microRNA (miRNA) — has gone from curiosity to one of the most important sets of regulatory molecules in the body. And because these short pieces of RNA are ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Open, Ring! Highly electrophilic cationic complexes as catalysts in immortal ring-opening polymerization of lactide

(Phys.org) -- Certain complexes of large alkaline earth elements such as calcium, strontium, and barium are efficient catalysts for various organic reactions. However, the stability of these heteroleptic complexes ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Astrophysicists discover new heating source in cosmological structure formation

(Phys.org) -- So far, astrophysicists thought that super-massive black holes can only influence their immediate surroundings. A collaboration of scientists at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Construction of new rock spawning reefs will help Great Lakes native fish

(Phys.org) -- The first of nine rock reefs is under construction in the St. Clair River delta northeast of Detroit. The goal of the project, which is led by Michigan Sea Grant, is to boost populations of lake ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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