It's 3am on the first day of 2014. Shanghai's Hengshan Road, an area popular for restaurants and nightclubs, is lit up with what seems like hundreds of bright green taxi lights, inviting the rowdy New Year's crowd to hop in. But the drivers ...
Tags: Taxi Apps, Government Regulations, taxi
A diet high in animal protein may help prevent functional decline in the elderly, researchers in Japan suggest. Megumi Tsubota-Utsugi of the National Institute of Health and Nutrition in Japan, and her colleagues in Tohoku University and ...
Tags: protein, Identifying nutritional factors, absorb or process protein
Low protein intake may be a key factor in longevity, according to two groups of researchers who published studies in the journal Cell Metabolism on 4 March 2014. The first study, from researchers at the University of Southern California, ...
Tags: Low protein intake, High protein, healthy balanced diet
Based out of the New York area, Mondevices Inc. has created the baby sleep monitor that fits in a button, creating the first “smart button” wearable technology. This year the “smart button” has won a prize in Smart ...
A tiny personal computer that is worn on the ear and can be controlled with the blink of an eye or the click of a tongue is being tested in Japan. The 17-gram (0.59-ounce) wireless device has bluetooth capability and is equipped with a ...
Tags: Ear Computer, Computer, Consumer Electronics
Hong Kong is pondering whether to rip out some seats from overcrowded metro trains to give the city's smartphone-addicted population more room to interact with their devices. The transport and housing bureau has suggested that the MTR ...
Tags: removal of some seats, more personal space, The train carriages
On Feb. 10, 2014,Listeria monocytogenes,a bacterium that can cause human illness,was isolated from a sample of Cuajada en Terron (Fresh Cheese Curd) collected by representatives from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer ...
Tags: Listeria, Cheese, Curd Sample, Va, Agriculture
On Feb. 10, 2014,Listeria monocytogenes,a bacterium that can cause human illness,was isolated from a sample of Cuajada en Terron (Fresh Cheese Curd) collected by representatives from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer ...
By Sara Freeman, medwireNews Reporter Elderly kidney cancer patients benefit from sunitinib therapy just as much as their younger counterparts, a retrospective analysis of six clinical trials shows. Median progression-free survival ...
Tags: PFS, mRCC, Advanced Age, IFN
By Sara Freeman, medwireNews Reporter mewireNews: Shortening the time that patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma are on and off treatment with sunitinib improves the drug’s overall tolerability without affecting its efficacy, ...
Tags: ORR, Tolerability, PFS, Sunitinib
Patrick J. Murphy Jr., M.D., director of the University of Louisville Home Call Program and professor of geriatrics in the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine, has been named one of six finalists for a national award recognizing ...
Tags: Finalist, Recognizing Leadership, Long Term Care, AMDA
A University of Otago, New Zealand, research breakthrough from the Sir John Walsh Research Institute is helping pave the way for novel antifungal drugs designed to overcome the world-wide problem of growing resistance to current treatments. ...
Tags: Aids, Drug Resistance, expand the array of antifungal treatments
Urinary incontinence affects up to 13% of Australian men and up to 37% of Australian women. There are several types of urinary incontinence, and each has different treatment options. In the latest edition of Australian Prescriber, Shannon ...
Tags: Incontinence, Treatment Option, reducing symptom, bladder
Moderate aerobic exercise helps to preserve the structure and function of nerve cells in the retina after damage, according to an animal study appearing February 12 in The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings suggest exercise may be able ...
Tags: Aerobic Exercise, Nerve Cells, BNDF, blind disease
Grand Foods, an Australian importer and distributor of Turkish foods, is withdrawing various soft and hard cheese products and one butter product, as they are contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The products subject to recall ...
Tags: Cheese Products, Withdraws Soft