Telluride Adaptive cuts ribbon on new headquarters
Telluride Daily Planet Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:12 AM PST
When someone suffers a horrible accident, one that robs limbs and body functions from its victim, doctors can only do so much. They may be able to restore physical functions, and even teach the newly disabled person to be mobile with what faculties they have left. But they cannot transplant confidence. |
Girl Barely Survives Bout With Swine Flu
The Kentucky Post Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:20 AM PST
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) â€" Doctors applied the paddles to Maddy Kidwell's little body over and over and over and over. Four times in 10 minutes. Four times before her heart began to beat again. |
Magnetic nanoparticles show promise for combating human cancer
PhysOrg Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:56 AM PST
Scientists at Georgia Tech and the Ovarian Cancer Institute have further developed a potential new treatment against cancer that uses magnetic nanoparticles to attach to cancer cells, removing them from the body. The treatment, tested in mice in 2008, has now been tested using samples from human cancer patients. The results appear online in the journal Nanomedicine. |
Lower Risk Using Radial Access for Cardiac Catheterizations
Newswise Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:35 AM PST
Cardiac catheterizations have been a groundbreaking tool in the field of cardiology. This procedure offers a minimally invasive means for obtaining important information about the heart and its blood vessels, while also providing a less invasive treatment for certain heart conditions. Typically, the catheter is introduced into the body through a vein or artery, usually in the leg, and is guided ... |
Invercargill girl fights off shark
Stuff Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:16 AM PST
A 14-year-old Invercargill girl had to pound a shark in the head with her body board to make it release her from its grasp at Oreti Beach near Invercargill last night. |
Dance Your Child's Way to a Healthy Body and Happy Heart
redOrbit Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:09 AM PST
ATLANTA, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Primrose Schools, the leader in educational child care, has launched a national campaign to promote physical activity and healthy lifestyle choices by encouraging families across the country to get up and dance. |
Update: body found in a home considered suspicious
KOAA Colorado Springs - Pueblo Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:38 AM PST
A woman has been found dead in a home on Querida Drive in Colorado Springs, that's on the east side of town near the Citidel Mall. Colorado Springs Police say just before 2:30 a.m., they received a call from a family member of the woman. When police arrived, they inspected the body and said the woman's injuries were suspicious. Police also say that there were two children inside the home, but ... |
Scientists use light beams to prick mystery of acupuncture
People's Daily Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:29 AM PST
Chinese scientists are using the country's most expensive ever science project, a light-emitting synchrotron, to solve the mystery of acupuncture points. The Shanghai-based synchrotron, which uses super-powerful X-rays to resolve the structure of matter down to the level of atoms, has detected evidence that acupuncture points differ from other parts of the body. Zhang Xinyi, deputy director with ... |
Family cremate wrong body in hospital blunder
Tameside Advertiser Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:16 AM PST
A FAMILY cremated the wrong body after a mix-up at a hospital mortuary. Instead of saying farewell to their loved one, the coffin contained the body of great-grandmother Marion Greenwood whose dying wish was to be buried next to her husband and son. |
Beyoncé's six Grammys a record-breaking haul
Toronto Star Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:06 AM PST
The Grammy’s are as much about a spectacle as they are about music awards. Beyoncé captured the awards and our photo gallery captures the glitter of the evening, from ashen-faced Lady Gaga to Pink, who wore a flesh-coloured body suit and little else. |
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