Medical research
Insulin pumps, monitors vulnerable to hacking
(AP) -- Even the human bloodstream isn't safe from computer hackers.
Aug 4, 2011
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News tagged with security
Cardiology
Workplace exposure to pesticides and metals linked to heightened heart disease risk
Workplace exposure to metals and pesticides is linked to a heightened risk of heart disease in Hispanic and Latino workers, reveals research published online in the journal Heart.
Dec 11, 2018
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Neuroscience
Your brain is better at busting deepfakes than you are
While observers can't consciously recognize the difference between real and fake faces, their brains can, University of Sydney research shows.
Jul 11, 2022
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Medications
How to save a country from snakebite
The evening that a snake bit Mahfudin was one like any other. The sun had set behind Mount Lawu, to the west of Mahfudin's village in the central part of Java, Indonesia. Crickets chirped in the hedges. Goats bleated in a ...
Dec 11, 2019
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Pediatrics
High-needs boy stuck in ER amid growing child welfare pressure in Minnesota
A distressing situation is unfolding inside the emergency department of Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia, where a 10-year-old boy with severe autism and aggression has been confined for seven months.
Oct 25, 2022
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
New study shows the incidence of Parkinson's disease in the US is 50% higher than previous estimates
A new study reveals that the annual incidence of Parkinson's disease (PD) among older adults is 50% higher than current estimates of 60,000 diagnoses annually. The peer-reviewed study, which measured new cases of PD, or the ...
Dec 15, 2022
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Health
Majority of Americans think they pay more toward social security and medicare than they do
According to a newly released Stony Brook Poll conducted in association with Left Right Research, a Long Island based Marketing Research supplier, more than 81 percent of approximately 7,000 people surveyed believe that they ...
Jun 29, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Watching video feed of hospitalized baby found to improve breast pumping experience
Parents who used videoconferencing technology to view their hospitalized baby reported an improved pumping experience while expressing milk for their premature infant. Videoconferencing also helped the whole family connect ...
May 27, 2022
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Other
Microwave weapon suspected in mystery attacks on US diplomats: report
Doctors and scientists increasingly suspect attacks with unconventional microwave weapons as the cause of the mysterious ailments that have stricken more than three dozen American diplomats and their families in Cuba and ...
Sep 2, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Nurture trumps nature in determining severity of PTSD symptoms
Researchers at Yale and elsewhere previously identified a host of genetic risk factors that help explain why some veterans are especially susceptible to the debilitating symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Oct 1, 2020
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