Scientists hounoured with BBVA award for discovery of appetite hormone

Douglas Coleman, Jeffrey Friedman receive the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for their discovery of the genes that regulate appetite and body weight. This discovery has led to a better understanding of obesity and treatment

Chip by chip

EMO Hannover showcases revolutionary concepts from the tool industry

Indian reinforced plastics industry to rebound

Indian reinforced plastics demand forecast to cross 1 Billion pounds by end of 2018.

[Interplastica 2013] LANXESS presented high-tech innovations for the Russian market

LANXESS exhibited at “interplastica 2013” in Moscow.

Delcam to show robot-machining developments at JEC

Delcam will demonstrate PowerMILL software at the JEC exhibition to be held in Paris from 12th to 14th March.

LASIK inventor honored by President Obama

Ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal surgeon, Gholam Peyman, MD, is most widely known for inventing the LASIK vision correction procedure

Faster revenue growth seen for molecular IVD tests

Molecular in vitro diagnostics (IVD) grow 8% each year to 7.6 billion by 2017

Cloaking strategy makes nanoparticles look, act like cells

Camouflaging nanoparticles allow them to evade body's defence system and deliver their drug payload

Medical units redesigned to reduce nursing fatigue, costs

Experts say some nurses walk up to five miles during a typical shift

More efficient use of critical care resources e-Health records

Advances in health information technology could help identify which patients most need ICU resources

Same-day angiography, heart surgery increase risk <br>for acute kidney injury

Overall, surgery on the same day as angiography was significantly associated with acute kidney injury (AKI)

Right massage can improve health

Massage therapy can lower blood pressure, help prevent colds, enhance skin tone and more, according to an expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)