Pitt's Little Lab strives to enhance body's own healing
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:21 AM PST
Steven Little wants to make medicine as smart as the human body. When something goes wrong with our bodies today, medicine's solution is often to cut it out, burn it out or treat it with medication. But the goal of the Little Lab at the University of Pittsburgh's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine is to enhance the body's already highly intelligent healing mechanisms. |
Port Hope girl will receive a life-changing gift
Northumberland Today Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:21 AM PST
PORT HOPE â€" The new year will bring a Grade 10 Port Hope High School student something she's never known: having two legs the same length. Bayleigh Beatty was born without a fibula in her right leg, one of the body's two shin bones.[...] |
Brad reveals how he was hurt
entertainment.iafrica.com Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:15 AM PST
Brad Pitt injured his knee during a fall with his three-year-old daughter. The Moneyball actor has been walking with a cane after sustaining ligament damage when he slipped whilst carrying Vivienne and put his body on the line to protect his child. |
Dalton honors Dancing with the Stars winner Martinez
Rome News-Tribune Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:14 AM PST
His voice breaking, J.R. Martinez recalled his first visit home to Dalton from Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas in 2003 where he was being treated for burns on more than 40 percent of his body. ... |
Photoacoustic Device Finds Cancer Cells Before They Become Tumors
Kansas City InfoZine Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:00 AM PST
Early detection of melanoma, the most aggressive skin cancer, is critical because melanoma will spread rapidly throughout the body. Now, University of Missouri researchers are one step closer to melanoma cancer detection at the cellular level, long before tumors have a chance to form. |
Donating your body to science? Better diet
MSNBC Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:54 AM PST
Some whole-body donation programs are turning away corpses too fat for scientific study, while others find that would-be donors simply don't sign up because they're surprised by weight limits as low as 170 pounds. |
From neurology to psychiatry: Bullock probes mysterious seizures
PhysOrg Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:29 AM PST
Your emotional state has powerful control over your body â€" and Kim Bullock, MD, knows just how strong that hold can be. The Stanford psychiatrist works with patients who experience seizures that aren’t generated from the electrical brain storms of epilepsy, but instead are driven by their own psychological turmoil. |
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