New hand-held information system for emergency responders
...tant), WISER is customized for easy navigation and quick access to key information required by first responders. To aid decision making, users can specify the role they are currently performing at the scene of an incident, and WISER organizes the critical information in a sequence most relevant to a first ...Study: Young adults can be motivated to eat fruits, veggies
...ting healthy is important might make better use of quick and easy recipes that use fresh fruits and vegetables. Nitzke's team included researchers and cooperative extension specialists from Alabama, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. The two-year study wa...Next generation body scanner launched by the University of Manchester
...ed. As well as offering higher quality images, the quick scanning time means that more patients will be able to take advantage of the equipment, such as severely ill people who have previously been unable to tolerate the longer scanning times involved. John Atwill, Managing Director of Philips Medical Syst...Study finds happiness persists, despite illness
...their mood at those random moments by completing a quick series of ratings. "The big advantage of using PDAs is that you can get representative snapshots of a person's experience, rather than just relying on their overall impressions of their lives," says Riis, adding that several studies have shown such ...Listening to fear: Helping kids cope, from nightmares to the nightly news
...e developmental fears to traumatic events-parents' quick and repeated assurances simply aren't enough," Marans contends in his book. Drawing on his 25 years experience in clinical practice, Marans guides parents through three important steps for helping children effectively overcome these worries. Marans s...New bedside tool gauges mortality risk in heart failure patients
...atment of acute heart failure, and offers a simple quick way for clinicians to assess mortality risk upon hospital admission and quickly decide on a treatment strategy," said Dr. Gregg C. Fonarow, lead study author, The Eliot Corday Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine and Science, professor of cardiology, Dav...Disaster management: Better management of hospital resources and staff is the answer
...uld beavailable to health workers for last minute, quick and easy querying at thetimeof an event. Co-operation between hospitals in the vicinity of a disaster must improve,withimproved communications, better training and planning, and triage algorithmsthat can help move hospital staff as opposed to patient...Fair decisions more important when hospitals face crisis like SARS
...milies; and To what extent should the need for quick decisions override the need for legitimate and fair decision making? Upon resumption of normal hospital operations, there was considerable pressure to move quickly to ease the surgical backlog. The group's report, published today by U.K.-based Bi...Youki spray curbs spread of superbug MRSA
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...er-based system that helps runway controllers make quick but effective scheduling decisions, generating a 10-25% reduction in delays affecting aircraft waiting for clearance to take-off. The work is being carried out by computer scientists at the University of Nottingham with funding from the Engineering ...ESA service makes customised maps available to African aid workers
...riousness of the crisis. The need is for something quick and simple. These issues are often faced by relief organisations and the pressure is to be fast and accurate. Off-line mapping services are expensive and do not have the response time required for simple fast delivery products. HUMAN wanted to prov...New female sterilization technique not only quicker and easier for patients, but cheaper
...the surgeon enters via the vagina. It also allows quick recovery. "Patients love it," says Abimbola Famuyide, M.B.B.S., Mayo Clinic gynecologic surgeon, who conducted the cost-comparison study. "There are minimal side effects. Patients typically leave the hospital within an hour, and they are back to wor...Indiana a national leader in new federal funding for health information technology
...althcare in central Indiana by allowing physicians quick access to complete and accurate patient information through an innovative electronic network. "The technologies and protocols being developed though health information exchange will have applications statewide and nationally, providing economic oppo...MRI can measure early benefits of cholesterol-lowering drugs and plaque reduction
...h advanced-stage cardiovascular disease in need of quick results. The research also linked the early benefits of statins to their lipid-lowering actions, not to anti-inflammatory properties as some earlier studies suggested. "Our study increases the likelihood that MRI could eventually be used as a pre...Under the surface, the brain seethes with undiscovered activity
... a mass of disparate scenes and sounds." Weliky is quick to point out that whatever way infant brains may interpret the world, just because they're different from an adult pattern of perception does not mean the infants have the wrong perception. After all, an adult interpreted the visual aspects of the fi...A glass of red wine a day may keep prostate cancer away
...y glass of red wine consumed per week, Stanford is quick to point out that research shows the law of diminishing returns comes into play when consumption increases beyond moderation."From a public-health standpoint, it's difficult to recommend any alcohol consumption given the risks associated with heavy c...Major radiology journal offers unrestricted access to recently archived articles
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...reat the cause appropriately. "NeutroSpec is easy, quick and reliable and has no known risk," says Mathew Thakur, Ph.D., professor of radiology and radiation oncology and director of radiopharmaceutical research at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, who holds a patent on the antibod...Countries need greater support and less stringent conditions if global fund goals are to be met
...those who will use them have frustrated hopes of a quick scaling-up of disease control interventions. The paper's lead author, Ruair Brugha, Senior Lecturer in Public Health at LSHTM, comments: 'The Global Fund is one of several new global initiatives to finance HIV/AIDS control, each superimposed on the ....... The mass took up the contrast, but there was no quick wash out," she said. One lesion showed progressive kinetics, which means that it got brighter and brighter on the MRI image. This often happens when the lesion is benign, Dr. Bartella said. In addition, Dr. Bartella noted that in 62% of the cases, ...