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| LIGHT COULD REPAIR EYE INJURIES |
| HOW do you treat people blinded by light? With more light. Shining near-infrared radiation on damaged retinal cells can keep them alive and prevent permanent blindness.
The US Defense Advance Research Projects Agency is funding research into the method and hopes to use it to treat people whose eyes are damaged by lasers. A number of US military personnel, including a helicopter pilot over Bosnia in 1998, have suffered laser eye injuries. |
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| A PERSONALLY TRAINABLE HEARING AID |
| An Australian engineer has developed a hearing aid that can be "trained" by its users to adjust automatically to their individual preferences for different sound environments. |
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| TIME FOR NEEDLE-FREE DIABETES MANAGEMENT |
| Diabetics are one step closer to blood-free glucose testing, with new developments to a wrist device that can 'suck' fluid through the skin presented to a British conference this week.
Professor Richard Guy and colleagues, from the University of Geneva in Switzerland, announced a new calibration method for the device, called 'GlucoWatch'. |
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| NEW MEDICAL SYSTEM FOR COLON CANCER SCREENING |
| With funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and other agencies, Professor Arie Kaufman, Chair and Leading Professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook Computer Science Department, has developed an innovative procedure called Virtual Colonoscopy. It is an accurate, cost-effective, fast, non-invasive, patient-comfortable procedure for screening of colon polyps, the precursor of cancer. In contrast, conventional colonoscopy is invasive with a risk of puncturing the colon and requires that the patient be sedated. |
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| A MECHANICAL MEDICINAL LEECH? |
| US researchers have developed a mechanical leech which they say can replace the flesh-and-blood variety used to prevent blood from clotting in plastic surgery. |
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| GLUE AND COILS HELP PREVENT MALFORMATIONS AND ANEURYSMS |
| A unique treatment at The Ohio State University Medical Center is using surgical glue and coils to correct abnormally connecting blood vessels that are linked to seizures, headaches and sometimes death. |
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| UT SOUTHWESTERN DOCTORS USE RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION TO DESTROY KIDNEY TUMORS WITHOUT SURGERY |
| When David Rist, 62, was diagnosed with cancerous kidney tumors, he and his wife put plans for their lakeside retirement home on hold. But thanks to a new nonsurgical technique offered at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Rist and his wife are again barreling ahead with plans for a dream house designed for gardening, boating and grandchildren. |
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| PLASTIC TUBE MAY HELP TREAT PARALYSIS |
| Canadian researchers have created a plastic tube that fits around the spinal cord and restores some movement in paralyzed rats, according to research presented at the 222nd national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. The researchers say the work could lead to a new treatment for paralysis in humans. |
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