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Innovative single-use torque instruments utilize tough polycarbonate from Bayer

Makrolon® polycarbonate resin from Bayer MaterialScience LLC forms the handles of CMP’s TorqueSafe™ instruments, which are designed for trauma, reconstruction, small bone, cranio maxillofacial fixation, spine and extremity procedures.

12 Feb 2015

Despite simplified NHMRC process, grant application process blowout

A new study shows the time Australian researchers spent applying for National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) project grants last year blew out by a collective 67 years, despite the funding body streamlining its application process.

12 Feb 2015

New Georgia Institute of Technology study finds that music may not help people remember things

Music may help some people relax when they're trying to concentrate. But it doesn't help them remember what they're focusing on, especially as they get older.

12 Feb 2015

NYU study could transform the fields of behavioral brain research, neuropsychobiology

Living in groups affords several benefits for animals, including better feeding opportunities and reduced risks from predators--situations in which critical information is transmitted nonverbally throughout the group.

12 Feb 2015

Researchers create new intraoperative probe for detecting cancer cells

Brain cancer patients may live longer thanks to a new cancer-detection method developed by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro, at McGill University and the MUHC, and Polytechnique Montréal.

12 Feb 2015

ORNL's James Roberto elected fellow of Materials Research Society

James Roberto, the associate laboratory director for Science and Technology Partnerships at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected a fellow of the Materials Research Society.

12 Feb 2015

Endovascular treatment can improve patient outcomes after acute ischemic stroke

Canadian researchers have completed an international randomized controlled trial showing that a clot retrieval procedure, known as endovascular treatment (ET), can dramatically improve patient outcomes after an acute ischemic stroke. The study, led by researchers at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI), shows a dramatic improvement in outcomes and a reduction in deaths from stroke.

12 Feb 2015

Rehabilitation experts to develop prosthetic limb that moves and feels like natural one

Rehabilitation experts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine hope to one day give people with an arm amputation a prosthetic limb that not only moves like a natural one, but "feels" like it, too.

12 Feb 2015

SRI Biosciences awarded contract to develop novel polymers to neutralize chemical, biological threats

SRI Biosciences, a division of SRI International, has been awarded a $10 million contract under a DARPA program to reimagine how proteins are constructed and to develop novel medicines and diagnostics as countermeasures to chemical and biological threats.

12 Feb 2015

Sanford Health wins LocumTenens.com's Best Places to Practice Locum Tenens contest

Sanford Health, the nation's largest rural, not-for-profit healthcare system, has been named the winner of LocumTenens.com's Best Places to Practice Locum Tenens contest.

12 Feb 2015

UT Southwestern gets NCI grant to establish Heavy Ion Radiation Therapy Research Center in US

UT Southwestern Medical Center is leading a Texas consortium of researchers to establish the country's first National Center for Heavy Ion Radiation Therapy that could provide clinical care and research using heavy particles for innovative new cancer treatments.

12 Feb 2015

OIB Program helps older Californians with blindness to live and work independently

More than ever, older Californians are facing the threat of blindness from age-related eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, cataracts and glaucoma.

12 Feb 2015

Farmers settles lawsuit with two radiological companies over alleged billing fraud

Farmers Insurance Exchange, 21st Century Insurance Company, Coast National Insurance Company, Mid-Century Insurance Company, and Truck Insurance Exchange (collectively, "Farmers") have reached a settlement in a lawsuit involving alleged billing fraud by two radiological companies and their owners.

12 Feb 2015

Cannabis Science highlights more attendees at the CFA African Healthcare Infrastructure Forum and Brainstorm

Cannabis Science, Inc., a U.S. Company specializing in cannabis formulation-based drug development and related consulting, highlights additional attendees at the CFA African Healthcare Infrastructure Forum and Brainstorm held at the African Union, in Washington DC, on February 6, 2015.

12 Feb 2015

Technology News and Research

Innovative single-use torque instruments utilize tough polycarbonate from Bayer

Despite simplified NHMRC process, grant application process blowout

New Georgia Institute of Technology study finds that music may not help people remember things

NYU study could transform the fields of behavioral brain research, neuropsychobiology

Researchers create new intraoperative probe for detecting cancer cells

ORNL's James Roberto elected fellow of Materials Research Society

Endovascular treatment can improve patient outcomes after acute ischemic stroke

Rehabilitation experts to develop prosthetic limb that moves and feels like natural one

SRI Biosciences awarded contract to develop novel polymers to neutralize chemical, biological threats

Sanford Health wins LocumTenens.com's Best Places to Practice Locum Tenens contest

UT Southwestern gets NCI grant to establish Heavy Ion Radiation Therapy Research Center in US

OIB Program helps older Californians with blindness to live and work independently

Farmers settles lawsuit with two radiological companies over alleged billing fraud

Cannabis Science highlights more attendees at the CFA African Healthcare Infrastructure Forum and Brainstorm

World Courier opens new distribution facility in Melbourne, Australia

Single-use TorqueSafe instruments use Bayer's Makrolon polycarbonate resin

AXT establishes preclinical imaging portfolio with MR solutions product lines

GBUK take whole group approach to medical device industry accreditation

Virginia Tech purchases two Bruker fluorescence microscope solutions

Innovative IV pole utilizing polycarbonate resin blend from Bayer enhances patient and health care worker safety

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

Advancing Intracellular Delivery with LumiPore®

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