Quantum mechanics offers the potential for creating communication technologies with an inherently higher security level than today's classical technologies. Using quantum digital signatures (QDS), for example, messages can be sent to ...
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An Israel-based startup specializing in using sounds instead of passwords for logging in said Monday it has been bought by Google. SlickLogin did not disclose financial terms of the deal, and Google did not respond to an AFP request for ...
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Organic farmers in California face unique issues in this devastating drought, leading some to bow out … or sell cows for hamburger meat San Joaquin Valley organic dairy farmer Tony Azevedo's business has dried up—literally. ...
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A team of UCA researchers led by Professor Esther Berrocoso and in joint collaboration with the mental health research groups of the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM) have carried out a ...
Article cites potential to save money on end-of-life care, medical imaging and new drug prices In a review article published Feb. 14 in The Lancet Oncology, Johns Hopkins experts identify three major sources of high cancer costs and argue ...
U.K. based Oxford Nanopore Technologies has made good on a promise made two years ago to produce an inexpensive genome sequencer that is based on nanopore technology. David Jaffe, with the Broad Institute reported to an audience at the ...
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In the first national look at how broadly web-based technologies are being used to provide health care, a University of Michigan researcher has found that 42 percent of U.S. hospitals use some type of "telehealth" approach. The study, ...
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News outlets detail how patients still don't completely understand the benefits that are now available to them. Los Angeles Times: Medi-Cal Seen As Relief For Some, Confusing Burden For Others Supporters of national health care reform ...
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Using susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI), researchers have identified microstructural changes in the brains of male and female college-level ice hockey players that could be due to concussive or subconcussive trauma. Until now, SWI has ...
Despite the fact that temperatures in Michigan are and have been frigid for at least 60 days, and we have not seen rain for quite awhile, some horses are still experiencing a condition commonly known as rain rot (or rain scald). A ...
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Childhood obesity rates have nearly tripled in the previous 30 years and researchers are asking the important question of how this epidemic will impact the future health of these obese children and public health in general. A University of ...
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It's still not too late to get a flu shot, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday. Flu activity often peaks in January or February and can last well into May, and a flu shot protects you as long as flu viruses are ...
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JustRight Surgical, a micro-laparoscopic medical device company devoted to miniaturizing surgical instrumentation, has received 510 (k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its JustRight™ 5mm Stapler. The ...
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For more than half a century now, Janitza is manufacturing products that are always a little ahead of their time, starting with the world’s first electronic power factor controller with harmonic limit values and automatic step ...
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One of Europe's biggest manufacturers of high and low voltage distribution equipment has announced major expansion plans for 2014 After seeing business flourish over the past two years, British firm Bowers Electricals will not only ...
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