A roomful of patients have blank stares as they eye medical students and professionals inside a $3.3 million simulation laboratory at the Dayton VA Medical Center . Not unlike any other hospital patient, they have name bands, hospital gowns and IV drips. They have a heartbeat, a pulse and some receive oxygen. But these aren't real people, just advanced mannequins, some costing as much as $250,000. Just a few feet away in a control room, instructors program challenging scenarios, and according to

A special lamp that mimics the sun could be the key to University of Cincinnati researchers developing a topical cream that may be able to repair skin damage from ultraviolet rays. The solar simulator was a gift from the Andy Caress Melanoma Foundation and Melanoma Know More Foundation. The lamp emits light that encompasses the entire spectrum of solar ultraviolet radiation-UVA and UVB. UC’s old lamps projected only UVB rays. Dr. Zalfa Abdel-Malek, professor of dermatology and cancer biology,

A group of really smart students at Lakota East High School , known to fellow teens as the kids trying to find a cure for AIDS, is taking its plan to the next level by meeting with the head of AIDS research at the University of Cincinnati . Lexie Adams, Chase Harris, Maddox Linneman and Sam Pannek were invited to UC by Dr. Carl Fichtenbaum, Director of HIV Clinical Research. They visited December 7, 2016. They're used to explaining their proposed AIDS cure because they've done it so many times

Despite some nudging by individual teams, Major League Baseball is taking technology baby steps. Earlier this year it lifted its ban of smartphones, tablets and laptops in the dugout and inked a deal with Apple for iPad Pros.

In the next month you could start seeing self-driving vehicles in Ohio. The state has been quietly marketing itself to manufacturers as a ready, willing and able partner in the self-driving vehicle arena.

Ohio State University researchers are using special glasses to help patients fully recover after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear. The glasses help rewire the brain after documented changes following a knee injury. The scientists compared brain scans of healthy adults versus those recovered from ACL injuries when extending and flexing the knee. "The brain fundamentally changed in how it processes information from an injured knee," said Dustin Grooms, a researcher who conducted

Scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center are preparing to take a closer look at the skin's ecosystem, known as the biome. By studying hundreds of babies and toddlers with eczema , they hope to find out why allergic disease progresses and persists in some people while not in others. Director of Asthma Research at Cincinnati Children's Gurjit Khurana Hershey, M.D. PhD, thinks there is something about the skin of some people which is abnormal, compromising the skin's barrier and

Construction crews in Dubai aren't building offices one brick at a time. Instead they're assembling them one complete wing at a time thanks to an organized effort to make the UAE city the 3D printing capital of the world. It took only 17 days to put together what is now the temporary home of the Dubai Future Foundation . According to 3dprint.com writer and editor Clare Scott, it was constructed with a twenty foot tall 3D printer that has an automated robotic arm. Boomlive.in put together this

Cedar Village , a retirement community in Mason, is noticing specific iPod playlists are triggering memories in some of its residents with dementia. Cedar Village will hold a free public screening of "Alive Inside," a film that shows evidence of the same thing, on October 25 at 7:30 p.m.. Rita Baker is an enthusiastic participant of the "Music and Memory Program" at Cedar Village. Her mother Sylvia Friedman was alone inside herself until she put on the headphones and began listening to a

This past weekend the Cincinnati Cyclones played their season opener with a special kind of socks. Kevlar socks prevent serious injury to the ankle and calf from a potentially damaging skate blade. Forward Kenny Ryan has worn them for a few years now under his actual game socks. "I had a buddy who took a skate and cut his Achilles and wasn't ever able to play again. I think these are starting to become league-wide." While the socks might be slightly low-tech, some other gadgets are not. At