Posts published by “Riyana Phadke”

On January 29, a new report from Nature Medicine stated that in five people who received contaminated injections of a growth hormone as children, researchers found that they developed Alzheimer’s disease unusually early.

Over the past couple years, Stevens has made huge strides in their research departments, with President Farvardin setting a goal for Stevens to become “a premier, student-centric, technological research university.”

Researchers at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital are finding that combining brain monitoring equipment with drug-dosing algorithms could one day help anesthesiologists give patients just the right dose of anesthetic to stay sedated for the duration of medical procedures.

A team of Duke neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and engineers have put together a speech prosthetic that can translate a person’s brain signals into words they want to say. 

On November 5, the 52nd annual New York City Marathon took place with over 50,000 runners crossing the finish line. The fastest marathon runners ran 26.2 miles in just over two hours.

Kindness, as many define it, is being selfless, caring, and compassionate towards others. We share kindness with others through acts such as a smile, a nice word, an unexpected deed, or a planned surprise.