medicine
BTN LiveBIG: Iowa hospital patients get by with a little help from 'Furry Friends'
BTN LiveBIG: Iowa hospital patients get by with a little help from 'Furry Friends'
It?s 9 a.m. on a cold winter morning at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) main building. A patient named Darrell is sitting in a chair getting medicine that doesn?t require a co-pay. A rather large Labradoodle named Yuki is on his lap, slathering his face in doggie kisses. In an intensive-care hospital room on […]
BTN LiveBIG: Penn State emergency medical staff answer call of the wild
BTN LiveBIG: Penn State emergency medical staff answer call of the wild
An ever-present symbol of Penn State University, Mount Nittany also serves as a gateway of sorts to a mountain wilderness that covers much of central Pennsylvania. The Life Lion emergency care team at PSU?s Milton S. Hershey Medical Center recently ventured into that wilderness to undertake some very unique professional development exercises. Participants in this […]
BTN LiveBIG: Ohio State alumna puts 'heart' into medical research
BTN LiveBIG: Ohio State alumna puts 'heart' into medical research
A series that covers the true revolutionaries, Game Changers explores how innovators from Big Ten universities - students, faculty and alums - are inventing or reinventing their chosen fields. Louis Pasteur. Jonas Salk. Kristin Comella? It?s perhaps a bit premature to say that this Ohio State graduate should be mentioned in the same breath as […]
BTN LiveBIG: Nebraska research team leads charge to create small surgical robots
BTN LiveBIG: Nebraska research team leads charge to create small surgical robots
Some of humankind?s greatest achievements have been rendered in science fiction before they became science fact. Moonwalks, artificial intelligence, earbuds, electric cars - all were the stuff of someone?s wildest dreams until hard work, ingenuity and perseverance turned them into realities. What?s next? How about small surgical robots that perform practically painless operations on people, […]
BTN LiveBIG: Northwestern makes potential breakthrough in laser science
BTN LiveBIG: Northwestern makes potential breakthrough in laser science
A series that covers the true revolutionaries, Game Changers explores how innovators from Big Ten universities - students, faculty and alums - are inventing or reinventing their chosen fields. Scientists at Northwestern University have discovered what they believe to be the first liquid nanoscale laser. For those in the scientific community, it represents a potentially […]
