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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - Novel Nanotechnology Heals Abscesses Caused by Resistant Staph Bacteria
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - Antidepressants May Increase Risk of Stroke and Death
Friday, December 11, 2009
Experts on Issues
Dr. Meredith A. Hawkins discusses why diabetes, once considered a disease of the First World, is now a problem of epidemic proportions in developing countries. Dr. Hawkins explores a rise in a form of diabetes that affects those with mysterious malnutrition.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Dr. Roy S. Chuck, chair of ophthalmology & visual sciences, offers possible causes for the increase in nearsightedness in the United States.
"Nearsighted work can really affect the development of young eyes if that's exclusively the kind of work that you're doing. It's equally important to be outside playing, stimulating your far vision."
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Dr. Steven A. Sparr, professor of clinical neurology, discusses the connection between music and the brain.
"Emotions can utilize alternative pathways when the primary ones are damaged – allowing a patient with facial paralysis, for example, to regain a symmetrical smile in response to humor. Emotions – and thus music – are integral to human intelligence. A mind without either is impoverished."
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Dr. Siobhan Dolan, associate professor of obstetrics & gynecology and women's health, explains how medical outcomes for children with Down syndrome have improved in recent years.
"About fifty percent of babies with Down syndrome are going to have a hole in their heart and that was a major cause for mortality. Many of those babies used to die. Well now they live, and they're living very happy successful childhoods and living into adulthood."
