Walk Like You Used To

Walk Like You Used To

by | December 2, 2015 | General News, Medical

Progressive neuromuscular diseases such as muscular dystrophy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) often rob patients of muscular control early on and get progressively worse, while spinal cord injury can halt mobility immediately. The loss of functional...
Tiny Chip Recovers Nanoparticles from Blood

Tiny Chip Recovers Nanoparticles from Blood

by | December 2, 2015 | General News, Medical

Nanoparticles have exciting potential applications in health and medical tasks, from delivering drugs to targeted cells, to monitoring specific toxins or biomarkers in the body. But this then raises the question, how do you monitor these to make sure that they are...
Track a Fever From a Distance [video]

Track a Fever From a Distance [video]

by | December 1, 2015 | General News, Health

Nothing’s worse for a parent than a sick kid. You want to care for them, you want them to get better quickly, and you want to let them rest. When they feel particularly lousy, they often don’t even want to be bothered or touched, which can make it...
It Hurts Right Here

It Hurts Right Here

by | November 30, 2015 | General News, Health

Have you gone to the doctor with a mysterious but bothersome pain and found it was hard describe well enough for the physician to figure it out? It happened to me a few years ago when I had piriformis syndrome, an uncommon but extremely painful and difficult to...