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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A substance that forms in patients with all-metal artificial hips turns out to contain the common lubricant graphite, a discovery that could help in designing longer lasting implants, researchers said.Such "metal-on-metal" hips were developed to be more durable than ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Twenty-two Americans ranging from a radio journalist to a sports trainer received no-strings-attached "genius" grants worth $500,000 each, a charitable foundation announced on Tuesday.Since the program was begun in 1981, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has ...
The emergence of bacteria resistant to antibiotics and efforts by scientists trying to cope with the problem top the agenda at a medical convention under way here this weekend."The emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria worldwide is clearly the hot topic because one can ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Blizzards. Tornadoes. Floods. Record heat and drought, followed by wildfires.The first eight months of 2011 have brought strange and destructive weather to the United States.From the blizzard that dumped almost two feet of snow on Chicago, to killer tornadoes ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A natural defense mechanism used by cells in the gut to neutralize harmful toxins may lead to new ways to fight Clostridium difficile, the most common cause of hospital-acquired bacterial infections, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.Tests of an experimental ...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Heat and drought are parching the southern U.S. plains, floods and tornadoes have shattered long-standing records, and the tropical Atlantic is steaming into the traditionally busiest part of the hurricane season.With commodity markets across the globe in the thrall ...
Japanese researchers said Tuesday they had developed a self-propelled remote controlled capsule endoscope that can "swim" through the digestive tract.They have succeeded in capturing images inside a person's stomach and colon using the tadpole-shaped capsule as a first step toward its clinical ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - When Noah and Alexis Beery were diagnosed with cerebral palsy nearly 13 years ago, the diagnosis never sat right with the twins' mother, Retta Beery.Her lengthy search for the true cause of her children's strange collection of symptoms finally ...
Bird-like dinosaurs long believed to be carnivorous predators were in fact plant lovers, with the notable exception of dedicated hunters such as T. rex, US paleontologists said Monday.Lindsay Zanno and Peter Makovicky of the Field Museum in Chicago used statistical analysis to ...
Acupuncture alters the way that the brain perceives and processes pain, a finding that suggests the traditional Chinese treatment can effectively relieve pain, according to a new study.. German researchers used functional MRI scans to measure brain activity in 18 people who ...
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