May 13 2016
Ischemic stroke (brain clot) is a leading cause of disability and death affecting approximately 795,000 U.S. stroke victims annually and accounts for almost 90 percent of all strokes. Strokes can result in long-term functional impairments for the patient such as difficulty in walking or speaking. A new device called a stent retriever, basically a small …
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Apr 18 2016
A beneficial safety protection service using a smartphone app monitors a person walking alone. Just in the U.S., over 40,000 children and 1.3 million women are abducted or raped each year. Wouldn’t it be nice if these terrible acts could be prevented and cause less worries for parents, spouses, and their children? Lifeline Response has …
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Mar 09 2016
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are an increasingly big problem for human health. They kill over 23,000 people in the US every year. This bacteria has an immunity to antibiotic treatments making them extremely difficult to eradicate. New research being conducted at the University of Colorado in Boulder has found that tiny light activated particles known as quantum …
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Mar 09 2016
Genealogists received disappointing news last December when Ancestry announced dropping Family Tree Maker (FTM), the nation’s largest family tree software program. The reason is mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are taking over the world and desktop or laptop computing is declining rapidly. Ancestry decided to put more emphasis on their online family tree …
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