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Santa can do the job and Christmas is saved!

Calculations maintain that the laws of physics should prevent Santa Claus from delivering all his gifts and that Santa would burn up in the atmosphere if he tried. The internet magazine, forskning.no, has put together a team of four top researchers to look into the case. The panel’s conclusion is clear: Santa can do the job and Christmas is saved!

23 Dec 2004

Notebook computers can have a negative effect on male fertility

US fertility experts are warning teenage boys and young men to consider limiting the time that they use notebook computers positioned on their laps, as long-term use may affect their fertility.

13 Dec 2004

Interactive talking books delivered to Afghanistan

The United States Department of Health and Human Services has announced the delivery of thousands of interactive women's health books built with the LeapPad learning system technology to Afghanistan and an additional $6 million in aid to improve the health of the Afghan people.

13 Dec 2004

First gene therapy for skin cancer

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have successfully tested the first gene therapy for skin cancer, using a mouse model for the disease xeroderma pigmentosum, or XP.

13 Dec 2004

Advanced wound care products to power expansion of European wound care market

The USD 1,111.1 million European wound care market is projected to gradually transition from traditional to advanced wound dressings. While traditional dressings currently dominate the total market, rising awareness of the clinical benefits provided by advanced wound dressings are set to widen their uptake.

7 Dec 2004

System helps physicians prevent radiation-induced skin injuries to patients

The threading of slender catheters and stents through arteries to deliver treatments to the heart, the brain and elsewhere in the body has produced nothing short of a medical revolution.

4 Dec 2004

Wisconsin reports increase in senior abuse

Reports of elder abuse increased by 3.6 percent in 2003, according to a report released by the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services.

20 Nov 2004

Turf burns and body shaving responsible for the spread of a bacterial skin infection among football players

Turf burns and cosmetic body shaving were responsible for the spread of a bacterial skin infection among players on a college football team, according to an article in the November 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online.

5 Nov 2004

Clinical trial of investigational oxygen-carrying blood substitute for use at the scene of injury

Loyola University Health System begins today the national clinical trial using PolyHeme®, an investigational oxygen-carrying blood substitute designed to increase survival of critically injured and bleeding trauma patients at the scene of injury.

1 Nov 2004

Brief psychological interventions are effective in relieving traumatic stress symptoms in family members

Family therapy and other psychological treatments may help reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress among teenaged survivors of childhood cancer--as well as among their parents.

28 Oct 2004

An immune system in a bottle would allow faster and easier production of a flu vaccine

University of Michigan associate professor Nicholas Kotov believes that one day, the cells in those honeycombs can be used to grow spare parts for our bodies, or even an entire artificial immune system in a bottle.

26 Oct 2004

Diet which mimics the effects of starvation may be started as an outpatient treatment for children with epilepsy

Results from a Mayo Clinic study that analyzed medical records of epilepsy patients suggest a ketogenic diet, which mimics the effects of starvation, can be successfully implemented with children on an outpatient basis.

21 Oct 2004

Herbal, nutritional supplements linked to side effects ranging from dry eye to retinal hemorrhages and transient visual loss

An estimated 42 percent of Americans use herbal medicines or nutritional supplements. Many people taking these products and their physicians are unaware of the adverse reactions they can cause.

13 Oct 2004

Portion control or planned exercise induces greatest weight loss

The journal, Obesity Research, today published an article on the results of a 24-month federally funded obesity study led by Summa Health System researchers in Akron, Ohio.

13 Oct 2004

Plastic surgeons successfully perform entire face reconstruction with minimal scarring in a single procedure

A team of plastic surgeons has successfully combined several reconstructive techniques to help burn victims regain some sense of self without undergoing multiple painful procedures and huge scarring often associated with reconstructing the face

13 Oct 2004

Wound healers cause skin disease

Dutch researcher Manon Franssen has shown that cells which heal the skin following an injury play an important role in the development of the skin disease psoriasis. In people with psoriasis, the skin peels much faster than normal so that it flakes and becomes inflamed.

11 Oct 2004

Burn News and Research

Santa can do the job and Christmas is saved!

Notebook computers can have a negative effect on male fertility

Interactive talking books delivered to Afghanistan

First gene therapy for skin cancer

Advanced wound care products to power expansion of European wound care market

System helps physicians prevent radiation-induced skin injuries to patients

Wisconsin reports increase in senior abuse

Turf burns and body shaving responsible for the spread of a bacterial skin infection among football players

Clinical trial of investigational oxygen-carrying blood substitute for use at the scene of injury

Brief psychological interventions are effective in relieving traumatic stress symptoms in family members

An immune system in a bottle would allow faster and easier production of a flu vaccine

Diet which mimics the effects of starvation may be started as an outpatient treatment for children with epilepsy

Herbal, nutritional supplements linked to side effects ranging from dry eye to retinal hemorrhages and transient visual loss

Portion control or planned exercise induces greatest weight loss

Plastic surgeons successfully perform entire face reconstruction with minimal scarring in a single procedure

Wound healers cause skin disease

Short-term exercise has a significant impact on insulin action in overweight people

In a world first, scientists have successfully grown square bacteria in the lab

Short-term exercise significantly increases insulin action

Guideline evaluates treatments for postherpetic neuralgia

Achieving and maintaining ISO/IEC 27001 and BS 10012 certifications

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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