Albany Medical College News

Researchers at Albany Medical College have demonstrated an experimental technology that allows people to use brain waves to spell out messages on a computer screen at a faster rate than allowed by other devices.

To many in the Capital Region, he was there as they took their first breaths. Dr. Jonathan Schwartz, who delivered more than 3,000 Capital Region babies since the 1970s, died Thursday after a battle with prostate cancer.

The 2009 ERVK Friends Committee Candlelight Award was presented Dec. 6 to Frank VanZanten of Poughkeepsie.

The human sensory experience is far more complex and nuanced than previously thought, according to a groundbreaking new study published in the December 15 issue of the journal Pain.

Glenn McGee has found a new home. The former ethics guru at Albany Medical College, who had a less than amicable split with the school last year, has landed a job in Kansas City.

An international team of scientists has discovered that the human body has an entirely unique and separate sensory system that is largely imperceptible in most people and is based on blood vessels and sweat glands and not on nerves.

December 15, 2009 A- The human sensory experience is far more complex and nuanced than previously thought, according to a groundbreaking new study published in the December 15 issue of the journal Pain .

Two and a half years ago, Marilee Jones, the highly regarded dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , vanished from public sight when it came to light that nearly three decades earlier, when she was first hired there, she had lied about her academic credentials.

Researchers have found that hormones produced during pregnancy induce a protein that directly inhibits the growth of breast cancer.

Dr. Adam Levine will graduate from Stetson law school in December. "From the time I was in a stroller," he says, "there was never any question that I would be a doctor." [STEPHEN J. CODDINGTON Times] S o many questions about Adam Levine's decision to stop being a doctor and start being a lawyer: Will he sue doctors? Will he raise his hand if ...

The costs of Healthcare to the budgets of local municipalities and the simplicity of a Single Payer System of paying for it will be the subject of a gathering at SPOOL.mfg a local art space in Johnson City on Saturday November 7th.

Albany Medical College has received about $7.7 million in federal stimulus money for research, including an ongoing investigation into a vaccine for a bacterium that could be used in a bioterrorist attack.

Albany Medical College is about to receive millions of dollars to continue life-saving research.

Albany Medical College has been awarded a $4.6 million grant for ongoing biodefense research.

When removing a piece of the brain, location makes a world of difference. If the surgeon cuts one millimeter in the wrong direction, the patient may lose the ability to speak, or a pathway that controls thumb movement, or worse.

Since being diagnosed with chronic kidney disease six years ago, Stephanie Agurkis has not been able to get health insurance.

Albany Medical College has entered into an agreement with Aegis Therapeutics LLC that could speed the development and commercialization of an anti-obesity peptide that could also benefit people with Type 2 diabetes.

A Fight to Be Healed Soccer Clinic will be held from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Friday at Sportsplex of Halfmoon, 6 Corporate Drive, Route 9, Halfmoon Cost is $20. The event benefits Nick's Fight to Be Healed Foundation in memory of Nick Cammarata and will include a soccer clinic, a raffle that includes an autographed jersey by N.Y. Red Bulls player Juan Pablo ...

When removing a piece of the brain, location makes a world of difference. If the surgeon cuts one millimeter in the wrong direction, the patient may lose the ability to speak, or a pathway that controls thumb movement, or worse.

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