Surgery
Heat-activated penile implant might restore sexual function in men with ED
The basic technology for penile implants hasn't improved much in 40 years.
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Incidence of consciousness during surgery lower than previous estimates
An international study of 260 surgical patients found that, contrary to many previous studies, just more than four percent were conscious of the external world while under general anesthesia but before the start of surgery.
Dec 15, 2016
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Medical research
New, more effective strategy for producing flu vaccines
A team of researchers led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, has developed technology that could improve the production of vaccines ...
Dec 5, 2016
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Neuroscience
Magnetic brain stimulation can bring back stowed memories: study
It's clear that your working memory—which holds attention on small things of short-term importance—works, or you wouldn't be able to remember a new phone number long enough to dial it.
Dec 1, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Young children's spatial talk predicts their spatial abilities
It's not how many words a kid knows; it's how they choose them that tells Hilary Miller the most about their spatial skills.
Nov 29, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Cancer signaling pathway could illuminate new avenue to therapy
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and Carbone Cancer Center have better defined a pro-growth signaling pathway common to many cancers that, when blocked, kills cancer cells ...
Nov 23, 2016
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Health
Nurses keep hospital patients moving with help from UW researchers
Laughter may get a lot of credit, but Barbara King makes walking sound like the best medicine.
Nov 23, 2016
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Immunology
Teaching the body's own T-cells to attack tumors
University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers are manufacturing highly personalized cancer treatments that take advantage of a patient's own cells to attack tumors.
Oct 26, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Study links changes in collagen to worse pancreatic cancer prognosis
A study in the current journal Oncotarget provides the first evidence linking a disturbance of the most common protein in the body with a poor outcome in pancreatic cancer.
Oct 21, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Carbone clinical trials test dietary therapy for triple-negative breast cancer
A new clinical trial for women with clinically aggressive triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) will test a novel theory: Will a diet low in an essential nutrient make TNBC cells more vulnerable to cell killing by a new cancer ...
Oct 19, 2016
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