https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. As COVID-19 continues to ravage global populations, the world is singularly focused on finding ways to battle the novel coronavirus. That includes the UC Santa Barbara's Solid State Lighting & Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) and member companies. Researchers there are developing ultraviolet LEDs that have the ability to decontaminate surfaces—and potentially air and water—that have come in contact with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-ultraviolet-effective-coronavirus-surfaces-potentially.html Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:40:59 EDT news506097654 Workers in the hardmetal industry are not at increased risk for lung cancer or any of 63 other potential causes of death, concluded the largest and most definitive study on this population to date. The results are being presented by the study investigators today at the 26th International Symposium on Epidemiology in Occupational Health annual meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, and will be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine as a series of eight articles. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-08-largest-date-occupational-health-hardmetal.html Wed, 30 Aug 2017 09:10:02 EDT news423300690 While dental drills, or burs, are used extensively in dentistry to mechanically prepare tooth structures for fillings, little is known about the bur debris left behind in the teeth and whether it poses potential health risks to patients. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-05-potentially-hazardous-dental-drill-debris.html Thu, 05 May 2016 09:18:14 EDT news381658679 For decades, overtightening has been blamed for the phenomenon that sometimes causes surgical screws and plates used in bone repair to irreversibly fuse together, a complication that can make subsequent removal difficult for the surgeon and traumatic for the patient. But a new study from the University of Dayton Research Institute has demonstrated that proteins naturally present in the human body, and not too much torque, are responsible for the sticking.  https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-sticky-situation.html Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:30:02 EDT news270202509 The ultrasonic bone aspirator, which uses sound waves to remove bone without damage to surrounding soft tissue or mucous membranes, may be a useful tool for surgeons performing cosmetic rhinoplasty (cosmetic surgery of the nose), according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-ultrasonic-instrument-rhinoplasty.html Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:20:01 EDT news235669704 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today added eight substances to its Report on Carcinogens, a science-based document that identifies chemicals and biological agents that may put people at increased risk for cancer. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-substances-added-hhs-carcinogens.html Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:45:06 EDT news226935881