St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center

New vision of how we explore our world

Brain researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute have discovered that we explore the world with our eyes in a different way than previously thought. Their results advance our understanding of how healthy observers and neurological ...

Neuroscience created Apr 05, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover breakthrough in ovarian cancer

Researchers at The University of Arizona Cancer Center at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix have discovered that many women with low-grade serous carcinoma of the ovary or peritoneum have seen their tumors ...

Cancer created Feb 14, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Using unique combination of diet and radiation therapy, researchers successfully destroy brain tumor cells

A team of brain cancer researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center has effectively treated brain tumor cells using a unique combination of diet and radiation therapy. The study, ...

Cancer created Dec 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Discovery of ways to optimize light sources for vision could lead to billions of dollars in energy savings

Vision researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute have made a groundbreaking discovery into the optimization of light sources to human vision. By tuning lighting devices to work more efficiently with the human brain the ...

Neuroscience created Nov 15, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Barrow researchers unravel illusion

Barrow Neurological Institute researchers Jorge Otero-Millan, Stephen Macknik, and Susana Martinez-Conde share the recent cover of the Journal of Neuroscience in a compelling study into why illusions trick our brains. Barrow ...

Neuroscience created May 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers make breakthrough on immune system and brain tumors

In what could be a breakthrough in the treatment of deadly brain tumors, a team of researchers from Barrow Neurological Institute and Arizona State University has discovered that the immune system reacts differently to different ...

Cancer created Sep 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Barrow researchers use magic for discoveries

Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center have unveiled how and why the public perceives some magic tricks in recent studies that could have real-world implications in military ...

Neuroscience created May 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers identify gene involved in lung tumor growth

Lung cancer researchers at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz., in collaboration with researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute and other institutions, have identified a gene that ...

Cancer created Nov 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0