Digital Speech Analysis Tests Sobriety
...mmings samples of sober andintoxicated speech from four different people, gathered at IndianaUniversity. T...same trend between sober andintoxicated speech for four different speakers, that's actually a lot,"she said. Also, Cummings plans to continue her research ...Use Of Surfectant Therapy Widens Gap In Death Rate Of Black And White Newborns
...ants born in St. Louis with clinical data from the four St.Louis-area neonatal intensive care units during 1987-89 and 1991-92, beforeand after approval of surfactant for clinical use. Very low birth-weightinfants are those weighing less than 3 pounds, 5 ounces. The study found the neonatal death rate for...Tacrolimus Stops Rejection Of Kidney Transplants
... rejection of transplanted kidneys in three out of four cases says a report from 13 of the country's leadi...epeated or uncontrollable rejection to only two to four percent, a significant advance. This multi-center report confirms an earlier kidney study from the U...Study Demonstrates Safety & Effectiveness Of Asthma Drug
...therthe inhaled beta-agonist, albuterol, two puffs four times a day, or an identical-appearingplacebo inhaler for 16 weeks. Patients in both groups were permitted totake additional albuterol, when needed, for relief of asthma symptoms. Duringa final four-week withdrawal period, all patients received only ...Scientists Produce New Anti-Malarial Compound
... That grant was recentlyrenewed by NIH for another four years. Also involved in the workare Xueliang Tao, a postdoctoral fellow in chemistry; Jared N.Cumming, a chemistry graduate student; and Donna Klinedinst, aresearch assistant in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine....Rape Victims Find Relief From Posttraumatic Stress Using The Antidepressant Zoloft.
...2 weeks on the antidepressant sertraline (Zoloft), four out of thefive women who completed the open clinical study responded positively totreatment. "Sertraline reduced PTSD and related symptoms in these rape victims," theauthors report. "The mean Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) scoresdecreased b...UW, Siemens Unveil New Panoramic Ultrasound Imaging Application Using Programmable Technology
... by Siemens Ultrasound Group, canperform more than four billion operations per second and matches the powerof 40 high-end Pentium processors. It uses powerful programmable hardwaretechnology and software functions conceived and developed by Yongmin Kim, UWprofessor of electrical engineering, and his resea...Program Provides Treatment For Prison-Released HIV-Positive Women
...elease program. It relies on aseven-member team of four doctors, two nurses and a social worker to assist thewomen. The program also supports a prison-based, half-time registered nurse. In the program, team members meet with each woman, three to six months priorto her release, and up to five times dependi...NIAID Stops AIDS Study Prematurely Because Drug 'Cocktail' Boosts Survival
...as the most in the United States. UNC-CH was among four centers that completed a study last year showing that indinavir, when combined with zidovudine (ZDV) and lamivudine (3TC), both significantly reduced AIDS virus levels in patients and boosted levels of CD4 cells, the infection- fighting cells the vir...Laser Shown Effective In Patients Who Are Not Candidates For Bypass Surgery Or Angioplasty
...od and heal over. Patients typically go home after four days in the hospital. The study also showed that TMR might not be as effective for those patientswhose heart disease has progressed to unstable angina, a severe form ofangina that requires emergency hospitalization and treatment in a cardiaccar...ACTG Protocol 185 Enrollment Halted
...ng Board (DSMB) reviewed results from the first of four planned efficacy analyses. The protocol opened on...death for African-American children between one to four years old and second leading cause of death for Hispanic children of the same age. It is estimated ...Laser Offers Hope For Heart Patients With No Alternatives
...od and heal over. Patients typically gohome after four days in the hospital. "The patients are now doing things they couldn't before -- shopping,gardening, driving and other everyday activities -- and without debilitatingpain," Lowe said. "They have also lessened the amount of heartmedications....Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
... muscles, and appeared in urine samples after just four hours. "This means that the particles are dissolving almost immediately because of the citrate in the interstitial fluid," Hem says, "and indicates that the aluminum is not going to stay in muscle for a long period of time. "If the aluminum adjuvant ...Nasal Spray Flu Vaccine By U-M Researcher Is 93% Effective
....D. from the School of PublicHealth in 1956. Just four years later, he isolated the Influenza Type A-AnnArbor virus and by 1967 had developed a cold-adapted virus that bred well incooler nasal passages and did not mutate to more dangerous forms. From 1973 tothe present, in collaboration with NIAID and m...New Ultrasound Technique Is Alternative To Cerebral Angiography
...son whose artery is 70 percent blocked or more has four times therisk of stroke as a person with lesser blockage. Severe blockages can besurgically removed. Currently, doctors use cerebral angiography as the final step inassessing the blockage to determine whether surgery is needed. This methodinv...Antioxidant-Enhancing Drug Partly Rescues Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
...nimals thenwere exposed to mid-frequency noise for four hours at levels high enough tocause temporary deaf...Brain-wave activity was measured again at one day, four days, and 20days following noise exposure. Results showed that the animals treated withR-PIA recove...'Bathtub' Equation Aids Diabetes Research
...dical ResearchCouncil of Canada. She currently has four graduate students, two postdoctorate fellows, three technicians and two co-op students at work onvarious aspects of her research. One study may shed light on what triggers the immune system to attack cellsthat make insulin in auto-immune diabetes. An...Targeted Protein Toxin Effective Against Persistent Brain Tumors
...s therapy worked only against very small tumors in four of the 15patients who were evaluated. The NINDS, one of the National Institutes of Health located in Bethesda,Maryland, supports a variety of research focused on improving the diagnosis andtreatment of brain tumors. It is the nation's leading suppor...Drug Regimen Reduces Atrial Fibrillation After Heart Surgery
...urgery and 60 patients received a placebo. One in four of the patients who received the medication suffered atrial fibrillation after surgery, compared with 53 percent of the patients who were administered a placebo. For patients receiving amiodarone: The mean length-of-hospital-stay was 6.5...Study Finds Incidence Of Stroke Over 40 Percent Higher Than Previously Stated Figures
...reater Cincinnati under the age of 65 had a two to four times greater incidenceof first-ever stroke compared with the rates among whites of similar age in theRochester population. Age-specific stroke incidence rates were similar forelderly blacks and whites, however. Application of the research...