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Researchers develop quick way to detect rotavirus

(PhysOrg.com) -- It may not have the instant recognition of AIDS or malaria, but rotavirus -- a common cause of diarrhea -- kills more than a half million people a year, most of them children in developing ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new test for a deadly fungal infection in patients with damaged immune systems

A quicker, cheaper and more accurate test for deadly Aspergillus fumigatus fungal infections in patients with damaged or suppressed immune systems was described today, (Thursday 2 April) at the Society for General Microb ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Origami-inspired paper sensor could test for malaria and HIV for less than 10 cents

Inspired by the paper-folding art of origami, chemists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a 3-D paper sensor that may be able to test for diseases such as malaria and HIV for less than 10 ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research: Bedbugs can thrive despite inbreeding

Bedbugs aren't just sleeping with you. They're sleeping with each other. Researchers now say that the creepy bugs have a special genetic gift: withstanding incest.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

History's normal rate of species disappearance is accelerating, scientists say

Biologist E.O. Wilson once pondered whether many of our fellow living things were doomed once evolution gave rise to an intelligent, technological creature that also happened to be a rapacious carnivore, fiercely territorial ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 31, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (16) | comments 11

Doctors turn to smartphones, tablets to access medical data

If a patient of Arlington, Texas, physician Ignacio Nunez shows up at the emergency room when the doctor is not at the hospital, he doesn't have to wait long to start investigating what might be wrong.

Technology / Software

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Seniors' sex lives are up -- and so are STD cases

Across the nation, and especially in communities that attract a lot of older Americans, the free-love generation is continuing to enjoy an active - if not always healthy - sex life.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 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.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Medical mystery endures: Black babies at twice risk of whites for death, study indicates

African-American women are significantly more likely to lose a baby in the first year of life than white women, in an enduring medical mystery. It exists at all income and education levels, but is widest among more affluent, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Handheld nanoLAB detects disease proteins in minutes

In 2009, Stanford University faculty member Shan Wang and doctoral students Richard Gaster and Drew Hall demonstrated that they could use the same ultrasensitive magnetic sensors that form the basis of today's compact, high-capacity ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Artificial pancreas in pregnancy promises fewer diabetes deaths

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cambridge research funded by the health charity Diabetes UK has for the first time successfully demonstrated the potential of an artificial pancreas in pregnant women with Type 1 diabetes. ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Childhood self-control predicts adult health and wealth

A long-term study has found that children who scored lower on measures of self-control as young as age 3 were more likely to have health problems, substance dependence, financial troubles and a criminal record by the time ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 7 | with audio podcast


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