Topic: Richard Barr

More New Medical Breakthroughs

Cool New Medical Breakthroughs Smallpox Cure But wasn't that disease killed off a long time ago? That's because new research by Tufts University bioengineers shows that spider silk, combined with tiny glass beads called silica, creates a new material that ...

Medical Breakthrough '08: Better Than Mammo

The days of squashing your size-Cs into a pancake and enduring invasive biopsies that turn out to be false alarms may be ending. That's better than mammograms or MRIs, says lead study author Richard G. Barr, a radiologist at Northeastern Ohio ...