Movement Journal

GOP already organizing repeal
44 | Even as Dems search for votes, Republicans pledge to back an effort to repeal reform.

Stroke Survivors Benefit From Robot Tuition
Shaking hands with a robotic arm could be a new way to help stroke patients learn to use their arms again. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation report a pilot trial of the 'Braccio di Ferro' (Iron arm) robot in 10 patients. Elena Vergaro, from the University of Genoa, Italy, worked with a team of researchers from the Italian Institute ...

Managing the Effects of Parkinson’s Disease
The American Academy of Neurology has published a new guideline to help people with Parkinson’s disease cope with common, albeit often unrecognized symptoms. The guide recommends the most effective treatments to help people with Parkinson’s disease who experience sleep, constipation, and sexual problems. The instruction is published in the current issue of Neurology®, the medical journal [...]

Grassley: Jobs bill a boon for banks
Iowa senator says too much money in jobs bill is set to end up on Wall Street.

The facts behind hangover remedies
The morning after St. Patrick's Day, the D4 Irish Pub & Café in Chicago, Illinois, gets flooded with requests for Bloody Marys, a concoction of tomato juice, celery, vodka and hot sauce.

Protein Movement Measurement With Nanosecond Resolution
Researchers at the Department of Chemistry, Technische Universitat Munchen (TUM) have developed a method that allows the observation of local movements in proteins on a time scale of nanoseconds to microseconds. Upon examining movements of the protein villin using this method they found two structures that were otherwise barely distinguishable from one another. Quick nanosecond-scale structure ...

Charles Moore: Making history through the lens
These days most great events are immortalised by photographs. Far fewer are the cases where the photographer is a driving force in the history he records. Such however was Charles Moore, whose unforgettable pictures both chronicled and propelled America's civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

Thai-ASEAN News Network
"In the police you see the dirty work of Empire at close quarters. The wretched prisoners huddling in stinking cages of the lock-ups, the grey cowed faces of the long-term convicts, the scarred buttocks of the men who had been flogged with bamboos."

Molecules in cell membranes move in a flowing motion rather than chaotically, new research finds
Researchers in Spain have discovered that the molecules in cell membranes move in a flowing motion rather than chaotically, as previously thought.

New technique reduces tobacco smoke damage to lungs in mice
( American Thoracic Society ) Researchers in Australia have demonstrated that blocking a certain protein can reduce or prevent cigarette smoke-induced lung inflammation in mice. Inflammation underlies the disease process of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and many other smoking-related ailments.