Brown physicist discovers odd, fluctuating magnetic waves
PhysOrg Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:29 PM PST
At the quantum level, the forces of magnetism and superconductivity exist in an uneasy relationship. Superconducting materials repel a magnetic field, so to create a superconducting current, the magnetic forces must be strong enough to overcome the natural repulsion and penetrate the body of the superconductor. But there's a limit: Apply too much magnetic force, and the superconductor's ... |
Rotarians ring bell for polio awareness
WWAY 3 Wilmington Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:14 PM PST
Video Body Wilmington Rotary Clubs celebrated their 105th birthday today by honoring Polio Awareness Week. Rotarian's went to the food court at Independence Mall to raise polio awareness. For every donation of 60 cents, Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo rang the Rotary Club's bell. Sixty cents can pay for one vile of polio vaccine, which can vaccinate 20 children. Although the disease is no longer in ... |
NHRMC lifts young visitors ban
WWAY 3 Wilmington Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:14 PM PST
Video Body New Hanover Regional Medical Center is the latest hospital to lift its ban on young visitors. Now that the Swine Flu threat has abated, the hospital is again allowing visitors under the age of 18. Brunswick Community Hospital lifted its ban yesterday. The restrictions began back in the fall when the number of cases of H1N1 was high. Story image Story summary Now that the Swine Flu ... |
Police identify South Salt Lake homicide victim
The Salt Lake Tribune Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:14 PM PST
Steven Leon Villiard spent years entangled in the drug world before he died Monday of a single gunshot wound at his South Salt Lake home. The 64-year-old man's body was discovered by a relative near 75 East and Claybourne Avenue (2700 South) around 1:10 p. |
Man charged with Trinity murder
Herald Sun Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:53 PM PST
MAN, 20, faces court today over the death of a young girl whose body was found in a drain. |
Transplants that do their job, then fade away
Spartanburg Herald-Journal Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:38 PM PST
Jonathan Nuñez was 8 months old when a liver transplant saved his life. Three years later, his body rejected the transplant, attacking it so fiercely that it wasted away and vanished, leaving barely a trace. |
Dermatology: Watching immune cell movement to and from the skin
Science Daily Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:21 PM PST
Immune cells known as Tregs have an important role in preventing other immune cells from attacking the cells of our body and causing autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. A team of researchers in Japan has now used mice engineered to express the photoconvertible fluorescence protein Kaede, which changes from green to red when exposed to violet light, to track Treg movement under ... |
Media Harming People's Body Image Say Psychiatrists
Medical News Today Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:10 PM PST
UK psychiatrists have announced they are concerned about the harmful influence of the media on people's body image and are calling for a new editorial code to stop the promotion of unhealthily thin bodies and making eating disorders appear glamorous. The Royal College of Psychiatrists' (RCPsychs') Eating Disorders Section said the media should be portraying images of more diverse body shapes and ... |
Paired Ends
GenomeWeb News Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:05 PM PST
Edison Liu was reelected president of the Human Genome Organisation by its governing body, the HUGO Council. Liu has been a council member of HUGO since 2003 and president since 2007. |
Dentist Takes on Electromagnetic Radiation
Flathead Beacon Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:03 PM PST
If you line 50 people up at a door, the best way to get them through is a single-file line. Trying to shove them all through at once is, obviously, problematic. So it is, too, with water molecules entering the body, says Dr. Gabriel Perjessy, a Kalispell dentist. Perjessy, who has been a dentist in the area for more than 30 years, recently installed a system at his office that is said to ... |
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