Researchers develop technique for bacteria crowd control
A surprising technique to concentrate, manipulate, and separate a wide class of swimming bacteria has been identified through a collaboration between researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois Institute of technology, University of Arizona at Tucson, and Cambridge University, UK. This device could have enormous applications in biotechnology and biomedical engineering including use in mi...Newborn neurons like to hang with the 'in' crowd
Like any new kid on the block that tries to fit in, newborn brain cells need to find their place within the existing network of neurons. The newcomers jump right into the fray and preferentially reach out to mature brain cells that are already well connected within the established circuitry, report scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in the online edition of Nature Neuroscienc...Link Popularity: The Internet's 'In' Crowd
The best means of measuring your web site's popularity is by determining its link popularity - that is, the number and quality of other web sites linking to it. Each time another web site adds a link to your web site, it's a vote of c...Free HIV Tests Brings Crowd to the Testing Centers
A study was conducted by Nathan Thielman, M.D, Duke University Medical Center to show that free HIV tests are very effective in preventing HIV infections than those which charge a small fee. //This also brings in more people towards the testing center and is therefore a very efficient method. In 2003 a two-week pilot program for free testing was conducted by The Duke researchers. Be...Klebsiella Outbreak In Durban Blamed On Staff Shortage & Overcrowding
The national director general of health had stated on Friday that the precedent conditions of staff shortages and overcrowding had led to the Klebsiella// outbreak at Durban's Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital, which had killed 22 babies early in 2005. Thami Mseleku said, “Nobody needs to communicate these problems. We are looking at a historical issue from before 1994. It's (overcrowd...Doctor Slipped into Coma after Being Beaten by Crowds
Patna: A doctor in a Bihar village was Monday battling for life after he was beaten by mobs, furious that a patient bitten by a snake had died during treatment. // Dr. Satish Chandra Sharma, who was beaten virtually within an inch of his life at Sursand in Sitamarhi district, was in a coma, officials said. The incident took place Sunday, when Sharma's clinic was vandalised...MRSA Threats Due to Overcrowding
It has been reported that in the hospitals run by NHS trusts, more and more people are at a risk of contracting MRSA due to overcrowding//. According to the Daily Telegraph, the bed occupancy rates in these hospitals are much above the Government’s recommended level. Norman Lamb, the health spokesman of the Liberal Democrats said that if the hospitals are crowded, it becomes an uphill...Hospital Projects to Take the Weight Off Overcrowded Ones
The Public Health Ministry of Thailand plans to set up 21 community medical centres in 20 provinces. This is in order to relieve the heavy workload of provincial// hospitals run by the state, many of which are overflowing with patients. The project estimated to cost 188-million-baht, is also intended to bring improvements to medical services in remote villages. Public health...