Before Alzheimer's patients experience memory loss, the brain's neurons（神经原，神经细胞） have already suffered harm for years. A new study in mouse models by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center has found that the brain's mi...
After the loss of a limb, most patients experience the feeling of a phantom（幻觉的，幽灵的） limb the vivid illusion that the amputated（截肢） arm or leg is still present. Damage to the nervous system, such as stroke, may cause similar...
Atrial fibrillation（心房颤动） is a heart disorder that affects more than two million Americans, and is considered a key contributor to blood clots（血栓） and stroke. Now researchers from North Carolina State University are developing a n...
Videoconferences（可视会议） may be known for putting people to sleep, but never like this. Dr. Thomas Hemmerling and his team of McGill's Department of Anesthesia（麻醉） achieved a world first on August 30, 2010, when they treated patient...
Much of the world's electronic waste is being shipped to China for recycling and the cottage industry（家庭手工业） that has sprung up there to recover usable materials from computers, cell phones, televisions and other goods may be creating s...
Researchers at the University of Michigan and Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, both in Ann Arbor, have identified geographic variation（地理性变化） as a key factor accounting for disparities（不同，不一致） in access to liver...
People with extremely strong ties to their countries or groups are not only willing, but eager, to sacrifice themselves to save their compatriots（同胞） , according to new psychology（心理学） research from The University of Texas at Austin...
Wielding（使用，挥舞） two claws, a motor and a tail that swings like a grandfather clock's pendulum（钟摆） , a small robot named ROCR (rocker) scrambles up（迅速爬上，拼凑） a carpeted, 8-foot wall in just over 15 seconds the fi...
A new study from Perth's Telethon Institute for Child Health Research shows an association between ADHD and a 'Western-style' diet in adolescents. The research findings have just been published online in the international Journal of Attention Disorde...
Childhood physical abuse（身体虐待） is associated with significantly elevated（提高的，高尚的） rates of heart disease in adulthood, according to new findings by University of Toronto researchers, published in this month's issue of th...
