Cranfield joins the UN fight against land mines
...y help to manage the de-mining programmes, thereby aiding long term sustainable development of mine affected countries; a primary aim of the United Nations." The course will consist of 16 delegates from 14 different mine affected countries....New grants program to help create healing environments in hospitals through art
...enty years. The National Endowment for the Arts is aiding this effort by designating a $50,000 Leadership Initiative grant to establish professional arts programs inside healthcare institutions. The grant was awarded to the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, a national service organization founded in 1990......, cost effective emergency medical information for aiding treatment decisions ONTARIO, CA October 23, 2000 LifePoint, Inc. (AMEX: LFP) today presented results describing the companys ability to detect THC (marijuana) in human saliva with the LifePoint Test System at the Scientific Assembly of the Ameri...Newer form of 'gold standard' drug helps kidney transplant patients do better in long term
...of the newer form of cyclosporine over the old for aiding long-term allograft survival, whether or not MMF is also taken. "This reaffirms the important role of the calcineurin inhibitors, such as cyclosporine and tacrolimus, for long-term survival of a transplanted kidney," Kaplan concludes. "This is import...Bangladesh flood and drought forecasting could bring farmers, cholera victims relief
...e to forecast local and regional droughts, further aiding Bangladesh farmers. The project had its beginnings in 1999, when a study of Indian Ocean monsoons involving a number of universities and federal agencies showed the ocean has its own El Nio-like phenomenon. Led by Webster, the research team crisscro...Do stroke therapies really work?
... of the brain may be stifling recovery rather than aiding it, says Alvaro Pascual-Leone, director of the Laboratory for Magnetic Brain Stimulation at Harvard Medical School in Boston. His team tested the theory by using magnetic fields to suppress those areas instead. Using a technique called transcranial ...Market potential exists for superconductivity in medical, energy, transportation sectors
...etect minute magnetic signals from the human body, aiding in the early detection of disease and allowing for detailed diagnostic imaging. Transportation Magnetic levitation, or maglev trains that float above strong superconducting magnets could travel at more than 300 miles per hour. Communications Sup...Northwestern is testing experimental therapies for Crohn's disease
...The New England Journal of Medine. In addition to aiding diagnosis by affording a more complete view of the small intestine without pain or discomfort to the patient, the "camera-in-a-capsule" enables physicians to direct appropriate treatment and determine the effect of new medications for Crohn's disease...PET/CT scanning now available at Fox Chase Cancer Center
...her with a unique view of cell metabolic function, aiding physicians in detecting and accurately diagnosing various cancers. "PET/CT is the most sophisticated imaging equipment available and we're very excited to now offer this new technology to our patients," says Lee P. Adler, MD, chief of nuclear medicin...Neural stem cells improve motor function in brain injuries
...ted NSCs, however, seemed to have little effect in aiding recovery of lost cognitive abilities. "The ultimate goal, of course, is to translate what we have learned into a therapy for humans," said McIntosh. Neural transplantation has been suggested to be potentially useful as a therapeutic intervention in ...UCI resarchers create first living model to exhibit
...oratory" for understanding how these lesions grow, aiding efforts to find an effective treatment for both the sporadic and inherited forms of the disease. "For the first time, plaque and tangle lesion formations can be studied together, letting us understand the relationship between the two lesions and dis...Computer-assisted breast imaging systems help find and characterize cancers
...nt or benign, enhancing breast ultrasound imaging, aiding with detection and classification on film and digital mammograms, and allowing precise tracking of an individual woman's case over time. The U-M team is also working on their ultimate goal: combining ultrasound and mammogram images to give a complet...Mechanical support could increase survival of children requiring heart transplantation
...rt-term mechanical heart support has potential for aiding children requiring heart transplantation. In adults the issues are different because there is a greater imbalance between the number of hearts available and needed, which leads to much longer waiting times. Allan Goldman from Great Ormond St Hospita...University of Pittsburgh imaging agent study suggests breakthrough in Alzheimer's research
... discovery of many possible uses for it, including aiding in the development of new Alzheimer therapies and possibly assisting in identifying those at high risk for the disease," said William Thies, Ph.D., vice president of Medical and Scientific Affairs for the Alzheimer's Association. According to the res...Fox Chase Cancer Center and the Girl Scouts partner to promote oncology nursing careers
...y nursing," said Mullin. "This was not just about aiding Fox Chase in the future, but about elevating the nursing shortage as whole. There are so many opportunities in nursing that I would not be surprised if we saw these same students in area hospitals twenty years from now." Mullin is among the staff of...The future of nursing; overcoming obstacles today for a better tomorrow
...means of replacing current experienced nurses, but aiding them and further introducing the profession of oncology nursing." At Fox Chase, newly hired CNAs are required to complete a three-day oncology course with curriculum designed by clinical nurse specialists. Topics covered include patients' rights, co...Cord blood stem cells save children with Hurler's syndrome
...the rest of the body, thus halting the disease and aiding repair in these organs and tissues, the Duke study showed. In fact, survival was higher and complications lower among the Duke children who received cord blood than among children previously described in the medical literature who had received adult ...... and experimental drug treatments show promise for aiding those suffering from injury to their spinal cord. The new research was presented at the 34th Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego. "New animal research brings increasing hope for sufferers of spinal cord injury," says Oswald Steward, ...