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John Stamos Uses 'Full House' Couch as 'Baby Safety Gate': Costars React

01.04.2020 Kids Health

Familiar furniture! John Stamos is using the Full House couch to block his 23-month-old son, Billy, from going outside amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Baby safety gate or one of the most iconic couches in pop TV history?” the Fuller House alum, 56, captioned a Tuesday, March 31, Instagram photo of his toddler trying to walk between the blue plaid couch […]

Biotech startup uses nanoparticles to induce immune tolerance

24.05.2019 Health Problems

More than 100 approved drugs in the U.S. warn of immune-related side effects on their labels. Countless others never make it onto shelves because of unwanted immune responses that can harm patients and limit the effectiveness of drug candidates. Most gene therapies, for instance, use viruses to enter a person’s cells and alter their DNA. But those viruses often elicit […]

Tiny, implantable device uses light to treat bladder problems

03.01.2019 Health Problems

A team of neuroscientists and engineers has developed a tiny, implantable device that has potential to help people with bladder problems bypass the need for medication or electronic stimulators. The team—from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago—created a soft, implantable device […]

Parkinson’s implant uses brain’s signals to adapt treatment

11.05.2018 Health Problems

Scientists in the USA have developed a new deep brain stimulation method to treat the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. While present deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s is constant, the new method is ‘adaptive’. This means the stimulation changes in real time, based on the patient’s neural signals. The study, published today in the Journal of Neural Engineering, used brief in-clinic […]

Study uses eye tracking to assess receptive language in children

05.05.2018 Kids Health

A new study found that eye tracking (ET) can be explored as a modality for assessing receptive language (RL) in typically developing (TD) children and those with neurodevelopmental delay (NDD). The research findings will be presented during the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) 2018 Meeting in Toronto. NDD assessment in children with significant motor delays (e.g., cerebral palsy), which is often […]