Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
...d deafness, which cannot be treated by any hearing aid or cochlear (inner-ear) implant. In a major development for the emerging field of "neuroprosthetics," researchers have designed the Penetrating Auditory Brainstem Implant (PABI). In this device, eight tiny electrodes are inserted directly into the ...Ethics of boosting brainpower debated by researchers
...rologists and physicians can develop guidelines to aid decisions about how research findings are used and communicated to the public. Robert Cook-Deegan, MD, director of Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy's Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy, hopes that such guidelines will distinguish b...School of Public Health awarded $3.9 million to assess Afghan health system
... this month, is part of $60 million in development aid provided to Afghanistan by the World Bank. Currently several non-governmental organizations provide health services under performance-based contracts to 13 of Afghanistan's 32 provinces. The evaluation system will independently measure the progress o...New calculator provides more accurate estimates of colon cancer survival
...intended only for estimates of survival. "It is an aid for making decisions about adjuvant chemotherapy treatment, and, as with all prognostic tools, the information is to be interpreted within the context of the individual patient's situation by the patient's oncologist." This is the third such calcula...MIT reports new insights in visual recognition
...er can do," Meyers emphasized. "The new work could aid the development of better systems by changing our concept of the kind of image information useful for determining what an object is." There could also be clinical applications. For example, said Sinha, "contextually evoked neural activity, or the lac...A bird 'language' gene pinpointed
...rnal of Neuroscience, said that their finding will aid research on how genes contribute to the architecture and function of brain circuitry for singing in birds. Among the lead researchers was neurobiologist Erich Jarvis, Ph.D., of Duke University Medical Center and Constance Scharff of the Max Planck ...Environmental and dietary influences on cancer risk
...cluding smoking, is being further defined with the aid of new technology, including microarrays, polymorp...ldehyde -- a suspected oral carcinogen -- with the aid of a catalyst known as alcohol dehydrogenase, or ADH. The ADH3 gene, which helps encode ADH, ...Behavioral symptoms may indicate increased smoking risk among adolescents
...ing risk factors for smoking among adolescents may aid in the development and implementation of more effective prevention programs. Lead investigators Drs. Monique Ernst and Michelle K. Leff published this study in the September 2003 issue of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse. It was fu...Doctor attacks South African government for failing women while spending billions on arms deals
...ped countries can play an important role by making aid and trade relationships dependant on this political shift and by committing themselves to long-term collaborations with African institutions in breast health training and service." Twenty per cent of South Africans have health insurance, and breast c...New computer-aided approach tailors drug dose to patient needs
...arameters to obtain a network-predicted regimen to aid in their decisions....Study suggests better use of web could improve infectious disease reporting
...of U.S. states' and territories' use of the Web to aid in infectious disease reporting. The study, "Use of the Web by State and Territorial Health Departments to Promote Infectious Disease Reporting," appears in the March 3 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Physicians and other h...High societal cost of brain and nervous system disorders attributed to genetic influences
...s in brain disorders should position themselves to aid the processes of identifying these alleles and to benefit from improved integration of these genetic insights with prevention, diagnosis, and treatment strategies for the many challenging disorders of the brain and nervous system."...Bar characteristics, women's behavior in bars tied to their risk for bar-related aggression
...ggression. The results, she added, "hopefully will aid in the development of future education and prevention efforts." The study included 198 women with an average age of 29 who were considered at relatively high-risk and drank in bars at least once a month. They reported drinking an average of six drink...Pitt receives $14.5 million from NIH to improve pediatric heart transplantation outcomes
...nces in patient outcomes and how certain cells may aid in the immune response to prevent certain post-transplant tumors. As such, the center grant brings together experts in pediatric cardiology and transplant medicine, transplant surgery, immunology, pharmacology, infectious diseases, molecular genetics...Computer-aided detection system for mammography does not change recall, detection rates
...em and 59,139 mammograms were interpreted with the aid of such a system. There was no statistically significant difference in recall rates (about 11% for both groups) or breast cancer detection rates (about 3.5 cases detected per 1000 screening mammograms). When the researchers looked at results from onl...Probiotics beneficial even when inactive, according to UCSD study
Probiotics, the trendy "good bacteria" found to aid disorders such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), allergies and even some forms of cancer, contain immune system-stimulating DNA which makes them just as effective when inactivated, as when consumed as live microorganisms in dairy products such as ...Robotic surgery for young heart patients shortens hospital stay and speeds recovery, study indicates
...elf. Right now, the imaging techniques are used to aid open-chest procedures. "In five or so years, perhaps we'll perform most of the basic procedures with the robot's help," Ohye predicts. "But for now, we're starting with building the case for its safety and its cost-effectiveness, in certain types of...For leg-bypass patients, drugs can save lives and limbs, but many patients go without them
...rugs that help millions of heart patients can also aid people who have painful blockages in the blood vessels of their legs, new research from the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center shows. Drugs called statins and ACE inhibitors can save those patients' lives, or their limbs, if they take the...Ebola virus a threat to great ape populations
...to hit nearby villages. Such finds could therefore aid in attempts at more effective prevention of Ebola virus transmission to humans. The Ebola virus, identified for the first time in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (ex-Zaire), has unleashed several lethal epidemics in Central Africa. For seve...Funding and distribution of inappropriate drugs add to rising global childhood malaria deaths
... to them. When those same countries seek financial aid from GFATM to purchase ACT, they are forcefully pr...ed out of it by governments such as the USA, whose aid officials say that ACT is too expensive and "not ready for prime time". WHO acquiesces to this press...