Latest medical technology from 1980-1990

	4D Ultrasounds Challenge Abortion Laws
...The latest 4D ultrasounds that can give video-like images of the foetus will change the views on the time when the foetus can be considered a person. Dr Kristin Savell, of the University of Sydney, Australia, says that people would be more willing to change current regulations on late-term abortions. The 4D scan gives a strong visual imagery giving a video-quality view of the foetus in real time. With this scient...
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	Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming
...es. Nowadays no one should feel indifferent about the serious consequences that global warming entails. One of the main goals set on the summit is to consolidate for appeal to policy makers. The latest Congress debates held in Washington, where Bush administration was criticized for inadequate response to global warming danger, showed that there is a necessity for scientific appeal to policy makers. Thus a new commit...
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	Robot to Help Neurosurgery
...ading team of Canadian Scientists. Dr. Garnette has cooperated with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. The cooperation lead to the design of a unique machine that doctors say is “a milestone in medical technology.” A surgeon, through a computer workstation controls the robot. The NeuroArm works with real-time MR imaging. It helps surgeons see and works on a microscopic scale. The testing of the NeuroArm is cur...
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	The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away
... in the Swedish capital. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five nominations: Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Peace and Economics (the latter only since 1969). This year's first Nobel Prize was awarded for medical achievements to three scientists, who have dedicated their researches to genetics. Their researches have brought them to breaking discoveries concerning embryonic stem cells and ways of recombining the DNA code in mam...
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	Scientists Find a Way to Make People Live for Hundreds of Years
...It can soon become possible for humans to live up to 800 years with the latest scientific breakthrough. Researchers at the University of Southern California said that they managed to extend the lifespan of a strain of yeast fungus that can live 10 times longer than normal. Valter Longo, the leading researcher of the study removed two genes RAS2 and SCH9 within the yeast's genome, that is responsible for aging in y...
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	NASA to Strike the Moon with a Double Sledgehammer
...at the moon's poles. LCROSS will smash into the moon's craters at a speed of 2.5 km per second. The total energy of the impact will rise 1,102 tons of moon fragments and dust. Thanks to modern technology, we can finally see if the moon is made of cheese.  If it weren't for those bright men and women over at NASA, we wouldn't have satellite radio, internet or even cell phones.  Think how hard it would ...
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	Vulture - The Unmanned Aircraft Able to Stay in the Air for 5 Years
...owever, there is no certain time table on when the craft will actually be ready. US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency looks forward to push the limits of unmanned aviation to extremes. The latest UAV project of DARPA currently raises eyebrows. "We want to completely change the paradigm of how we think of aircraft," stated Daniel Newman, who holds the post of Vulture project manager. "Aviation has a perfect r...
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	Psychiatrists to Officially Recognize Internet Addiction as Brain Illness
... An exaggerating number of e-mails as well as text messages may very soon be officially recognized as brain illness. According to an editorial published in the latest issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, "excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations and e-mail/text messaging" is considered to be a widespread compulsive-impulsive disorder. Such disorder should be included in the official psychiatric guidebook of me...
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	Tragic Human Error Lead to Transplantation of HIV-positive Organs
...y the hospital in Florence. The doctors from the Careggi hospital said that the liver and kidneys of an HIV-positive woman were transplanted after a laboratory biologist mistakenly wrote on a woman's medical records that she tested negative for the virus. The chief of Careggi hospital, Edoardo Majno, confessed that there has been a tragic human error. Doctors mentioned that the woman, although being HIV-positive, didn...
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	Fox Interactive Media Purchased Strategic Data Corp.
...On Thursday Fox Interactive Media, owned by News Corporation, stated that it has acquired Strategic Data Corp., a company that deals with interactive advertising technology. This step was made to improve Fox's advertising, and mainly the way marketers perform it. MySpace's officials stated that the technology used by Strategic Data is to help Fox Interactive Media automatically match advertisements with those users that ...
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	Surgeons Who Play Video Games are More Skilled
... Recent studies showed that the surgeons who play video games are more skilled. It seems that video games contribute to a more precise technique of using different medical instruments. The February issue of Archives of Surgery states that there is a direct link between having video game skills and the abilities of a surgeon to perform a laparoscopic surgery. The term laparoscopy refers to surgeries that are made by wat...
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	Google's New Purchase Called Adscape
... Adscape Media Inc. is a company that provides in-game advertising. Google has agreed on purchasing the company for $ 23 million. This information was provided by Red Herring, a technology site which cited in a report made on Thursday the sources that are familiar with the matter. However, the spokesman of Google did not leave any comment stating that the current policy of the company is not to respond to "rumor or specul...
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	European Union is Angry on Microsoft
...e with Brussels, the company faced further fines for seeking unreasonable prices from the software developers for vital data. The European Union criticized Microsoft. The EU executive stated that the latest formal charges might lead the American software corporation to additional daily penalties. Jonathan Todd, the competition spokesman of European Commission, said that the EU, for the first time in its antitrust policy...
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	Scientific contribution in Iraq war undermined
...Britain's Armed Forces may no longer take part in operations countering Iraq's threat without considerable funds in essential technology advancements, where scientists make their greatest contribution, announced a committee of MPs. As it was disclosed by the Commons Defense Committee report, scientists from Dstl (Defense Science and Technology Laboratory), an agency of the Ministry of Defence, have their final word for...
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