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Brown University Oncology Research Group: Twenty years of cancer treatment trials

By Guest PostJune 7, 2014Healthbrown university, cat scan, catheters, causal model, cytosol, danger to children, elias bareinboim, fassprotein, france, fusion problem, implants, judea pearl, mdm10, nikolaus pfanner, pot tarts, rhode island hospital, Technology, thomas becker, turing award, warwick

Since 1994 cancer doctors affiliated with the Alpert Medical School have had a place with funding, administrative, and collegial support to develop and test novel cancer treatments: The Brown University Oncology Research Group.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Too few cancer patients, especially those with pancreatic cancer, get to the point that Raymond Sabella reached in the spring of 2014. Ten months after he began his trek from the diagnosis of an inoperable tumor to experimental chemotherapy and then radiation, he reports feeling great. He’s gaining back some of the weight he lost, but not too much, and something else is back, too. (more…)

Chew on this

By Guest PostFebruary 28, 2013Sciencealex fok, art, art 1, art 5, artificial mouth, artificial saliva, chewing, crowns, cycles, dental education, dental fillings, dentistry, fifth generation, force, general mills, human body, human volunteers, implants, mdrcbb, metal cylinders, most complex motions, motor mouth, mts systems corp, ormco, orthodontics maker, oscar, outstanding vision, periodontal tissue, physiological parameters, ralph delong, robotic inventions, toothbrush design, toothbrushing machine, university industrial center, university of minnesota, william douglas

How a ‘motor mouth’ is changing dentistry

If you want your dental fillings, crowns, implants, and so on to last, you can thank ART.

Chewing involves some of the human body’s most complex motions, and ART, the artificial mouth at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, can perform a year’s worth of chewing—300,000 cycles—in just a day or two. (more…)

Researchers Coat Spinal Polymer Implants with Bioactive Film to Improve Bonding with Bone

By Guest PostFebruary 22, 2013Health, Scienceafsaneh rabiei, bioactive film, body, bonding, bone, calcium phosphate, challenge, clinical testing, coating of hydroxyapatite, crystalline structure, degrees celsius, dissolve, heat shield, implants, improve, microwave, north Carolina, peek, spinal polymer implants, state university, stefan sandukas, success rate, surrounding bone, tissue, ysz, ysz layer, yttria stabilized zirconia

Researchers from North Carolina State University have for the first time successfully coated polymer implants with a bioactive film. The discovery should improve the success rate of such implants – which are often used in spinal surgeries.

The polymer used in these implants, called PEEK, does not bond well with bone or other tissues in the body. This can result in the implant rubbing against surrounding tissues, which can lead to medical complications and the need for additional surgeries. (more…)

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Brown University Oncology Research Group: Twenty years of cancer treatment trials

Chew on this

Researchers Coat Spinal Polymer Implants with Bioactive Film to Improve Bonding with Bone