People who can’t stand can now walk by putting on a device called Rewalk.
http://webandtechs.com/2015/02/fda-approved-exoskeleton-rewalk-allows-paralyzed-people-to-walk/
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People who can’t stand can now walk by putting on a device called Rewalk.
http://webandtechs.com/2015/02/fda-approved-exoskeleton-rewalk-allows-paralyzed-people-to-walk/
Middle-school children who consume heavily sweetened energy drinks are 66% more likely to be at risk for hyperactivity and inattention symptoms, a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health has found.
http://news.yale.edu/2015/02/09/energy-drinks-significantly-increase-hyperactivity-schoolchildren
E-cigarettes are being pitched as potentially safer alternatives to traditional tobacco cigarettes, but it's starting to look like they may share some of the same deleterious effects.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/5/7988047/ecig-vapor-damages-immune-system-mice
Research at the Universities of St Andrews and Dundee has confirmed that levels of neonicotinoid insecticides accepted to exist in agriculture cause both impairment of bumblebees' brain cells and subsequent poor performance by bee colonies.
http://phys.org/news/2015-02-neonicotinoid-insecticides-impair-bee-brains.html
An international team of scientists has discovered the greatest absence of evolution ever reported—a type of deep-sea microorganism that appears not to have evolved over more than 2 billion years. But the researchers say that the organisms' lack of evolution actually supports Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
http://phys.org/news/2015-02-scientists-hasnt-evolved-billion-years.html
Higher levels of stress, hostility and depressive symptoms are associated with significantly increased risk of stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) in middle-age and older adults.
http://newsroom.heart.org/news/high-stress-hostility-depression-linked-with-increased-stroke-risk
We describe levels of sexual activity, problems with sexual functioning, and concerns about sexual health among older adults in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), and associations with age, health, and partnership factors.
Randomized controlled trials are praised as one of the highest forms of evidence in healthcare. However, to be valuable, all research must have valid methods, and be reproducible and useable.
http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-medicine/2015/01/26/excuse-me-trialist-what-are-your-thoughts/
Girls who frequently consume sugary drinks tend to start their menstrual periods earlier than girls who do not, according to new research. The findings are important not only because of the growing problem of childhood obesity in a number of developed countries, but also because starting periods earlier is linked to an increased risk of breast cancer later in life.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150127212212.htm
Cells needed to grow hair have been produced from human stem cells, according to a study by scientists at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in La Jolla. The first-time feat could uncork a bottleneck in developing hair-replacement therapies, the scientists say.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/jan/26/hair-stem-cells-papillae-gnedeva-terskikh-burnham/