Year: 2010

The CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities and the National Birth Defects Prevention Network have published a new study presenting updated national prevalence estimates for select birth defects from 2004 to 2006. The data shows that more…

    Chi-Ren Shyu University of Missouri researchers are developing a place in cyberspace where relevant and timely information regarding lymphedema can be easily stored, searched, and reviewed from anywhere with the goal of improving health care through the availability…

Though designed to enhance customer experiences, post-service customer surveys might actually harm a business’s relationships with consumers, according to new research by Rice University professors. The research team found that customers who participate in firm-sponsored surveys delay doing repeat business…

Almost 50% of patients undergoing orthopedic surgery have vitamin D deficiency that should be corrected before surgery to improve patient outcomes, based on a study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York City. “In the perfect…

A noninvasive technique providing low-level electrical stimulation of the brain produces significant pain-reducing effects in humans, reports the November issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia. With further research and development, transcranial electrostimulation (TES) could provide a valuable, non-drug approach to reducing…

Surgeons conducting the largest study yet of women who have cancer in one breast but have both removed have found that this option has grown rapidly despite a lack of evidence that it improves long-term life expectancy. Their findings were…

Severely injured patients should be transported directly from the scene of an accident to a trauma center, even if it means bypassing a closer hospital, according to new research that shows this results in a nearly 25% lower death rate.…

A third of breast cancer survivors who received the breast-conserving treatments lumpectomy and radiation rate the appearance of their post-treatment breast as only “fair” or “poor” in comparison to their untreated breast, according to a University of Pennsylvania School of…

The Chinese capital of Beijing has won the right to host the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) General Assembly in December. The General Assembly meets every 2 years and the decision to take the event to Beijing follows a detailed review…

In a project supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, researchers from Cornell University, University of Chicago and iRobot have bypassed traditional designs based around the human hand and fingers, and created a versatile gripper using ground coffee and…