May 7, 2008

Parents dumbing down kids with TV

In a document released through the May issue of the Archives of Paediatric Adolescent Medicine a JAMA publication, it has been discussed that parents who all to often place their children in front of the TV, Video and DVD players, sometimes feel that they are doing them a favour, especially when there are programmes like [...]

August 10, 2007

Implant developed for Epilepsy

A living electrode has been developed by Jenna Rickus, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Purdue.
This implant has been specially coated with engineered neurons, what happens is when the neurons are stimulated they release a neurotransmitter, which it is said can inhibit epileptic seizures.
This comes as a result of the work that is being done [...]

August 8, 2007

Biomed students study business too

It seems that days of Biomed students studying their subject and going to work in a lab, hospital or somewhere similar are long gone. Students today are also studying business, why?
The answer is simple, instead of working for someone else, many students are looking to start up their own businesses, after all there is not [...]