Robot rehab
Biomed engineering professor receives American Heart Association grant to study robot-aided stroke rehabilitation
About every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. (more…)
Category Archives: Health
Lecker im Käse, gesund in Magen und Darm
Die Lactobazillen sind „Mikrobe des Jahres 2018“
Die Mikrobe des Jahres haben Sie heute vermutlich schon mehrfach verzehrt: als Sauerteigbrot mit Käse oder Salami, im Joghurt, in Form von Sauerkraut oder eingelegten Oliven. Zur Mikrobe des Jahres hat die Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie (VAAM) nämlich die nützlichen Laktobazillen gewählt. (more…)
One e-cigarette with nicotine leads to adrenaline changes in nonsmokers’ hearts
UCLA researchers say study challenges the concept that inhaled nicotine is safe
A new UCLA study has found that healthy nonsmokers experienced increased adrenaline levels in their hearts after one electronic cigarette with nicotine. (more…)
Home sweet HomeLab
New U-M lab provides a space for researchers to study how we live in our most familiar environment
ANN ARBOR — Fredda Clisham washes her hands at a bathroom sink—something she’s done thousands of times in her 96 years. (more…)
Teeth-whitening kit developed by Mizzou spin-off company
FDA-registered product uses technology, engineering science and is manufactured at Columbia company
COLUMBIA, Mo. – On the outside, Novashine looks like an ordinary teeth-whitening kit that consumers use every day. However, the kit, developed by a team of University of Missouri engineers, uses a specialized teeth-whitening gel specially made for ease of use that capitalizes on technology users probably already have on hand—the user’s smartphone. (more…)
How first ‘vouchers’ in UCLA kidney donation program led to 25 lifesaving transplants
In 2014 a former judge from San Diego County approached the UCLA Kidney Transplant Program with an unusual request: If the judge donated a kidney to a stranger now, could his then-4-year-old grandson, who suffered from chronic kidney disease, receive priority for a future kidney transplant if needed later in life? (more…)
Princeton researchers show how the brain breaks down events
Research by Princeton University neuroscientists provides a new framework for understanding how the experience of life is accumulated, stored and recalled by the human brain.
“When you go about your day, you’re continuously assaulted with visual, auditory and other sensory information,” said Christopher Baldassano, an associate research scholar at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI). “We don’t try to understand our world as the continuous stream that’s coming in, but we break it up into pieces we can understand and remember. The goal of this research was to look for the signatures of this kind of activity.” (more…)
Humor hilft heilen
Eckart von Hirschhausen spricht an der Universität Tübingen zu den Möglichkeiten der positiven Psychologie im Gesundheitswesen ‒ Erlös geht an Stiftung sowie Forschungsprojekt zu Depressionen
Wenn Menschen ernsthaft erkranken, setzt sich ein professionelles medizinisches Räderwerk in Gang: Laboruntersuchungen, der Einsatz von High-End-Geräten, hochwirksame Medikamente. Kann man in einer solchen Lebenssituation ernsthaft an gute Laune denken? Man kann nicht nur, man sollte sogar! Eine positive Stimmung fördert den Genesungsprozess wie zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Arbeiten zeigen, die von der Stiftung „Humor hilft heilen“ des Entertainers Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen gefördert werden. (more…)