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Ack, Baby Seals at CES!
PAROAbby SeiffFor five years now the ill and elderly in Japan and Europe have had adorable, furry, sensor-ridden robotic seals to speed recover and improve health. Two months ago PAROs arrived...
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The New Face of Autism Therapy
Smile for the CameraJohn B. CarnettBandit, a robot designed to engage children with autism, has stereo cameras for eyes.In a small, sparsely furnished room, a young boy in a black T-shirt backs himself...
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Electronic Sutures Can Check For Infections and Even Help Wounds Heal
Silicon SuturesJohn RogersStitches deserve a makeover. We've been using them in some form for thousands of years. So while they've stood the test of time, a researcher from the University of Illinois...
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Internet-Based Psychotherapy Actually Works
Internet therapyDreamstime/ Joey CarmichaelLying on your therapist's couch might be a thing of the past. Why bother, when you could duke it out with your depression by the pool? Online-based therapy...
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3 Ways To Save Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy DeclineOlfson & Marcus, 2010 via Brown University NewsThe subtle art of lying on a therapist's couch is in rapid decline. Psychotherapy, the traditional one-on-one weekly session with...
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Can Hypnosis Kill You?
Jason SchneiderThe first account linking hypnosis and death in the medical literature was in 1894. Ella Salamon, niece of a Hungarian count, was put into a trance and then “fell from her chair with a...
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Nobel Prize In Chemistry Goes To 3 Scientists Who Uncovered DNA Repair
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 winners slideITT News Agency/ASSOCIATED PRESSA slide with the three winners of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and...
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Convincing Lung Cancer To Commit Suicide
From Our Blogs: Under The Microscope Researchers have developed a method to kill lung carcinomas using a viral ‘suicide gene’ Lung cancer remains a significant threat to human health. Now researchers...
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Nature Videos Make Prisoners Less Violent
Health Simple intervention could improve mental health of nature-deprived inmates Prisoners at Snake River Correctional Institution in Oregon who were shown nature videos were less aggressive,...
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'Future First': This Is Your Brain On VR
Technology Virtual reality is paving the way for new technological therapeutics Popular Science and XPRIZE are teaming up to explore and explain technologies that make us say "The Future Is Now" in a...
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