News tagged with patients recovering

Flowering plants speed post-surgery recovery

Contact with nature has long been suspected to increase positive feelings, reduce stress, and provide distraction from the pain associated with recovery from surgery. Now, research has confirmed the beneficial ...

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created Dec 29, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Nature's billion-year-old battery key to storing energy

New research at Concordia University is bringing us one step closer to clean energy. It is possible to extend the length of time a battery-like enzyme can store energy from seconds to hours, a study published in the Journal of ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Study: How to save $800 on a new car

Want to save nearly $800 the next time you purchase a new car? A recently published paper co-authored by Jorge Silva-Risso, an associate professor of marketing at the University of California, Riverside's ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A miniature device with a big impact

Ten milliliters of blood may not seem like a lot, and coming from healthy individuals it isn’t. But for critically ill patients with diminished resources, 10mL could be crucial. Nonetheless, that’s ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Implantable, wireless sensors share secrets of healing tissues

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new implantable sensor developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute can wirelessly transmit data from the site of a recent orthopedic surgery. Inexpensive to make and highly reliable, this ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Toxins from diseased brain cells make diseases of the brain even worse

Sometimes our immune defence attacks our own cells. When this happens in the brain we see neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. But if the the immune defence is inhibited, the results ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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

Metabolic errors can spell doom for DNA

Many critical cell functions depend on a class of molecules called purines, which form half of the building blocks of DNA and RNA, and are a major component of the chemicals that store a cell’s energy. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

For the dogs: Team performs open-heart canine surgeries

Plagued with a defective heart valve that caused fluid accumulation in his lungs, Leo was in need of serious medical help.

Biology / Other

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new year fir the Euro: What could happen and why Americans should be concerned

Despite a slowly improving U.S. economy, Americans have watched the stock market continue on its roller coaster ride, in large part because of uncertainty about the economic future of European countries, such as Greece, Portugal, ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Greying Singapore taps robots, games in rehab

Six months ago, Singaporean retiree Soon Eng Sam, 70, suffered a stroke that paralysed the left side of his body.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 01, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

St Maarten finds local lionfish tainted with toxin

(AP) -- Conservationists in St. Maarten are warning islanders not to eat lionfish after tests found a naturally occurring toxin in the flesh of the candy-striped invasive species, officials said Thursday.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1


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