Wyatt Technology Corporation today announced that Professor Judit E. Puskas at the University of Akron has developed a system using its instrumentation that will also help to solve a prevalent and particularly controversial material science challenge. The researchers are employing the multi detector system to develop alternative materials to silicone ...

By Randy Dotinga HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Physicians can boost their chances of finding signs of colorectal cancer in patients with a second flexible sigmoidoscopy test, which is a less invasive procedure than a colonoscopy, a new study ...

A group of more than 400 doctors, medical researchers and scientists are urging universities to close down alternative medicine degrees.

(American College of Physicians) Congress today was told to replace the $1.2 trillion in across-the-board sequestration-mandated budget cuts. The request was made by Virginia L. Hood, MBBS, MPH, FACP, president of the American College of Physicians, at today's annual State of the Nation's Health Care briefing. She declared that ...

Concerns about the worldwide energy supply and national, environmental and economic security have resulted in a search for alternative energy sources. A new University of Illinois study shows Miscanthus x giganteus ( M. x giganteus ) is a strong contender in the race to find the next source ...

Concerns about the worldwide energy supply and national, environmental and economic security have resulted in a search for alternative energy sources. A new University of Illinois study shows Miscanthus x giganteus (M. x giganteus) is a strong contender in the race to find the next source of ethanol if appropriate ...

The pigs and poultry in Professor Xingen Lei's lab have been consuming feed one wouldn't expect in Ithaca: marine algae.

Self-epilation is an acceptable alternative to surgery in patients with mild trachomatous trichiasis Teaching patients with mild trachomatous trichiasis - a leading cause of blindness in low resource countries in which chronic conjunctivitis leads to scarring causing the eyelids to turn inwards and the eye lashes to rub the eye ...

In the greenhouse business, organic and inorganic growing substrates are chosen for the physical and chemical properties necessary to support specific crops and growing conditions. One important physical property in substrates is air-filled pore space, a particularly important characteristic that allows for gas exchange between plants' roots and the outside ...

FAYETTEVILLE, ARIn the greenhouse business, organic and inorganic growing substrates are chosen for the physical and chemical properties necessary to support specific crops and growing conditions. One important physical property in substrates is air-filled pore space, a particularly important characteristic that allows for gas exchange between plants' roots and the ...

Overuse of antibiotics has contributed towards drug-resistant bacteria emerging and spreading. Antibiotics have frequently been accused for so-called "superbugs" spreading. In the United States, virulent strains of MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), a leading cause of community-acquired soft tissue and skin infections, are of paramount public health concern, due to the ...

Teaching patients with mild trachomatous trichiasis—a leading cause of blindness in low resource countries in which chronic conjunctivitis leads to scarring causing the eyelids to turn inwards and the eye lashes to rub the eye causing pain, corneal damage, and visual impairment—to safely pull out the eyelashes touching their eye ...