Archive: 15/07/2013

This is not a test: In caring for airplane crash victims, training and teamwork prevailed

"Did you know there's been a plane crash at San Francisco airport?" It was a little past 11:30 a.m. on July 6 when Eric A. Weiss, MD, the medical director of the joint office of emergency management for Stanford Hospital ...

Jul 15, 2013

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Responsive brain stimulation could improve life for Parkinson's sufferers

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers in Oxford have demonstrated a significant improvement in the treatment of advanced Parkinson's disease with deep brain stimulation.

Jul 15, 2013

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Target: New ways to battle disease

For decades, developing medicine to treat disease was a lengthy and often discouraging process: create a drug, test on a lab animal, hold a human clinical trial, and hope to calibrate an effective dose to kill the disease ...

Jul 15, 2013

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Study reveals promise of "human computing power" via crowdsourcing to speed medical research

"Human computing power" harnessed from ordinary citizens across the world has the potential to accelerate the pace of health care research of all kinds, a team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, ...

Jul 15, 2013

Early spatial reasoning predicts later creativity and innovation, especially in STEM fields

Exceptional spatial ability at age 13 predicts creative and scholarly achievements over 30 years later, according to results from a new longitudinal study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for ...

Jul 15, 2013

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