New OHSU senior care program gets $2.5M boost
... At the heart of Care Management Plus is a robust tracking and reminding system that takes advantage of medical informatics innovations developed at Intermountain Healthcare and OHSU, and well-trained, "technology-enhanced" care managers. Together, they help patients and caregivers self-manage their conditio...Everything starts with recognition
...tes how recognition works at the very first steps, tracking back the path in the evolution of complex matter. (Angewandte Chemie international April 20th 2007) If one thinks that there are thousands of times more molecules forming our body than stars in the universe it is astonishing how all these molecule...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...isease-associated form is an important part in the tracking of prion diseases and researchers are hopeful that rodent-adapted CWD models could assist in therapeutic development. In the study transgenic and wild-type mice in addition to Syrian, Djungarian, Chinese, Siberian and Armenian hamsters were inocula...'Supermap' of avian flu yields new info on source/spread
...ies says the supermap is universally applicable in tracking the spread of infectious agents, adding that his group is already working on mapping other diseases, such as SARS. He notes that despite recent efforts to stimulate collaboration and publication of all data regarding the H5N1 virus, a significant amo......ef scientists has achieved a world breakthrough in tracking fish that could revolutionise the sustainable management of coral reefs and help restore threatened fisheries. In the process, they have established that Nemo the lovable orange, black and white clownfish of movie fame really does come home, with...Light sticks may lure turtles to fishing lines
...a soft cloth harness and tethered to an electronic tracking device that monitored their movements. Safely encased in the soft fabric and released in the tank, the turtles swam as if in the open ocean, apparently unaware that they arent going anywhere, Wang said. When glowing light sticks were introduced to...Nearly 28,000 US infants died in 2004
...rth/Infant Death Data Set" includes a new analysis tracking preterm birth-related infant deaths. The analysis, first published in the October 2006 edition of Pediatrics, found preterm birth contributes to nearly twice as many infant deaths within the first year of life than previously estimated. "We have l...Healthy reefs hit hardest by warmer temperatures
... epidemiological methods similar to those used for tracking human disease. They found white syndrome present on the reefs when the survey started in 1998. However, the syndromes frequency increased 20-fold in 2002 following a particularly warm summer. Sea surface temperature was monitored at each site using N...InfoSNM highlights advances in computer, information sciences for molecular imaging
...-held technology; a tumor metrics measurement and tracking system; using simulation to research ideas in emission tomography; dementia evaluation using automated software-based age/sex-matched normal database comparison; 4-D phantoms for medical imaging simulation of mice and men; coregistration and vis...FDG-PET imaging clearly predicts lung cancer patients' response to chemotherapy
...to cancerous areas. PET scans show where FDG is by tracking the gamma rays given off by the radionuclide tagging the drug and producing three-dimensional images of their distribution within the body. PET scanning provides information about the bodys chemistry, metabolic activity and body function. Our res...Berkeley Lab Life Sciences division awarded NIH grants for fruit fly, nematode studies
... Suzanna Lewis will collaborate on compiling and tracking all the data generated by the entire project under a modENCODE grant for "A Data Coordination Center for the Model Organism ENCODE project," led by Lincoln Stein of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, with Lewis, Gos Micklem of Cambridge University, and J...Salmon tracking program expands to California
...matter, and buying a salmon caught off Oregon, and tracking down the day it was caught, the location, and the river of origin," Sylvia said. "Then you can click on another link and read about the fishing vessel that caught the salmon, and the crew that works the boat. "Some of the fishermen are as excited a...Newly identified mechanism for silencing genes points to possible anti-cancer strategies
...r way to inhibit gene translation into protein. By tracking the associations between molecules involved in generating microRNAs and other molecules in the cell, we uncovered an entirely new pathway, one that led us to a mechanism that blocks the cellular machinery that produces protein from messenger RNA." ...Pointing a finger at the source of fecal bacteria
...tom sediment also suggest that different tools for tracking fecal contamination may have varying relevance to the more specific goal of tracking the sources of E. coli in water or soil within the watershed. Ongoing studies at the USGS and EPA ...Some forest birds can survive in agricultural countryside with limited habitat conservation
...10 days, Sekercioglu said. After eight months of tracking over two seasons, the team concluded that many tro...s exciting," he said. In addition to banding and tracking birds, the research team monitored over 300 nests. Also, they have collected more than 10,000 feathe...New research shows sharks use their noses and bodies to locate smells
...emonstrated that the lateral line also aids in the tracking of odor plumes. "Odor plumes are complex, dynam...a process referred to as "eddy chemotaxis," or the tracking of odor and turbulence simultaneously. "We might see odor and turbulent eddies in the oily wake b...A living memory chip, black holes on the loose, and a clearer picture of ocean currents
...ge water flow or sea surface height. Rather than tracking flow in the ocean point by point, as is typical of most ocean studies, the researchers applied a more holistic approach based on a mathematical technique known as Lagrangian analysis. In effect, the method allows them to simultaneously consider all t...Eavesdropping comes naturally to young song sparrows
...l line of research, Beecher and his colleagues are tracking song sparrows by radio in the field. Preliminary analysis of the tracking data suggests that young birds dont have many direct interactions with adults, and so are likely to ...PET accurately identifies esophageal cancer patients' positive responses to chemotherapy
...to cancerous areas. PET scans show where FDG is by tracking photons given off by the radioactive tracer. PET scanning provides information at a molecular levelnot available through other proceduresabout the body's chemistry, metabolic activity and body function. ...Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan
...lleagues believe that follow-up aerial surveys and tracking will reveal that the team missed a significant portion of kob due to the animals movements during the surveys. As a result, they believe that there could actually be well over a million white-eared kob in Southern Sudan. Combined with the tiang and M...