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Crinkled coatings could prevent medical implants from failing

Medical implants could fail less often when coated with a microscopically crinkled, ceramic material designed by researchers at the University of Michigan. The coating is described in a paper published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgApr 24th, 2024

Cultural Competency in Health Care Can Save Lives

Medical professionals who connect with their patients’ language and culture provide better care.....»»

Category: scienceSource:  sciamRelated NewsOct 16th, 2024

New Medical Diagnoses and Tools Are Removing Historical Biases

New formulas, devices and tools are removing historical bias from medical diagnoses.....»»

Category: scienceSource:  sciamRelated NewsOct 16th, 2024

What is Implicit Bias, and how Might it Affect Your Next Medical Visit?

We talk to Cristina Gonzalez, a physician at New York University, who runs a lab that uses simulations to help medical professionals check their implicit bias at the exam room door......»»

Category: scienceSource:  sciamRelated NewsOct 16th, 2024

How Implicit Bias Affects Your Medical Care

How do you stop implicit bias from getting in the way of better health? This doctor wants to make learning how to manage bias as important as learning how to suture......»»

Category: scienceSource:  sciamRelated NewsOct 16th, 2024

ExtraHop RevealX enhancements accelerate investigation workflows

ExtraHop unveiled new network-based file analysis capabilities in ExtraHop RevealX to detect malware, combat ransomware, and help prevent data loss. According to the 2024 Global Ransomware Trends Report, organizations experience an average of eight r.....»»

Category: securitySource:  netsecurityRelated NewsOct 16th, 2024

Popular VPN boosts its security game and brings your browsing to the cloud

IPVanish Secure Browsing seeks to raise the bar of VPN security, promising to prevent digital threats from reaching your device altogether......»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsOct 16th, 2024

Accelerated three-year medical school students found to perform as well as peers in traditional four-year programs

Graduates who went to medical school for three years performed equally well on tests of skill and knowledge as their peers who followed a four-year program, a new study shows......»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsOct 15th, 2024

Unique "barcodes" for molecules could help expedite medical advancements

Barcodes are commonly used to track items like groceries or clothing, but University of Central Florida researchers have developed a special "barcode" to identify much smaller objects: molecules......»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsOct 15th, 2024

A Hong Kong zoo seeks answers after 9 monkeys die in 2 days

Hong Kong's oldest zoo is seeking answers in a monkey medical mystery after nine animals died in two days, including three members of a critically endangered species......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 15th, 2024

Election delays impact voter trust but messages from election officials can help, survey finds

A pre-registered survey of nearly 10,000 Americans shows that delays in declaring the winners of elections cause distrust in the electoral process, but that reassuring voters before polls close that delays are normal can prevent this distrust from ta.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 15th, 2024

Musk’s X blocked links to JD Vance dossier after hearing from Trump campaign

Report: Trump campaign "connected with X to prevent the circulation of links." Elon Musk's X blocked links to the JD Vance dossier after hearing directly from the Trump campaign,.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsOct 14th, 2024

GitGuardian Visual Studio Code extension helps developers protect their sensitive information

Stolen credentials remain the most common cause of a data breach. Various methods exist to prevent such breaches, and the most effective ones will have the least impact on developer productivity while catching issues as early as possible in the devel.....»»

Category: securitySource:  netsecurityRelated NewsOct 14th, 2024

Shaping nanocrystals: Unlocking the future of screens, solar and medical tech

From brighter TV screens to better medical diagnostics and more efficient solar panels, new Curtin-led research has discovered how to make more molecules stick to the surface of tiny nanocrystals, in a breakthrough that could lead to improvements in.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsOct 14th, 2024

Intra-molecular distances in biomolecules measured optically with Ångström precision

A team led by physicists Steffen Sahl and Stefan Hell at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen and the MPI for Medical Research in Heidelberg has succeeded in measuring distances within biomolecules using a light.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 11th, 2024

A quantum material could be the future of high-energy X-ray imaging and particle detection

Scintillators are detectors that make high-energy X-rays or particles visible through flashes of light to form an image. Their many applications include particle physics, medical imaging, X-ray security and more......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 11th, 2024

"Widespread noncompliance and poor performance" in world"s largest nature-based carbon removal projects

One of the largest types of carbon offset projects the Australian government is using to meet climate change targets and reduce carbon in the atmosphere is failing to do so, new research has shown. The findings are published in The Rangeland Journal......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 11th, 2024

Magnetoelectric nanodiscs offer remote brain stimulation without implants or genetic modification

Novel magnetic nanodiscs could provide a much less invasive way of stimulating parts of the brain, paving the way for stimulation therapies without implants or genetic modification, MIT researchers report......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 11th, 2024

Low-temperature synthesis technique uses upcycled textile waste to create green, safe waterproof coating

A new technique could create waterproof coatings for clothes from discarded textiles—far safer for humans and the environment than current coatings, which are typically made with harsh chemicals and carcinogens......»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 9th, 2024

Hybrid fiber pump combiner could advance mid-IR laser systems

In the last two decades, the rapid advancement in applications such as environmental monitoring, medical diagnostics, and global positioning has intensified the focus on developing novel mid-IR light sources. Fiber-based mid-IR lasers, which operate.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 9th, 2024

How Chlamydia pneumoniae bacteria use molecular mimicry to manipulate the host cell

Bacteria that cause diseases, so-called pathogens, develop various strategies to exploit human cells as hosts to their own advantage. A team of biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), together with medical professionals and exper.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 9th, 2024