Physics tip sheet #11 - May 1, 2002
...ty in the heart was monitored and a feedback cycle applied small electrical impulses to the heart. The authors suggest that a modification of this procedure may be able to maintain normal heart function in humans. Journal article: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v88/e198102 2) How drops drip A. D'Innocenz...Institute will study how worker health affects productivity and profit
...oetzel, currently vice president of consulting and applied research for MEDSTAT, who will be the institute's ...f Cornell faculty with the practical experience of applied researchers at MEDSTAT," says Stapleton....HIV vaccine research is 'best hope' for controlling AIDS pandemic
...stitutes of Health (NIH). NIAID supports basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious and immune-mediated illnesses, including HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, illness from potential agents of bioterrorism, tuberculosis, malaria, autoimmune disorders, asthma and alle...Rutgers' announces Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
... addressing some of the most challenging basic and applied issues in health, health care and health policy," said David Mechanic, Investigator Awards national program director and director of Rutgers' Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research. "Terrorism, the slowdown in the economy, the pr...Fibromyalgia pain isn't all in patients' heads, new brain study finds
...10 minutes while a small, piston-controlled device applied precisely calibrated, rapidly pulsing pressure to the base of their left thumbnail. The pressures were varied over time, using painful and non-painful levels that had been set for each patient prior to the scan. The studys design gave two opportuniti...Scientists become filmmakers to decipher immunity
...titutes of Health (NIH). NIAID supports basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious and immune-mediated illnesses, including HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, illness from potential agents of bioterrorism, tuberculosis, malaria, autoimmune disorders, asthma and alle...Researchers shed light on mechanisms of voluntary alcohol consumption
...t activation of PKA. Further, dopamine and ethanol applied together to the cells at concentrations that individually would not activate PKA signaling produced a synergistic response between the A2 and D2 receptors that increased beta gamma dimer formation and, in turn, generated PKA signaling. To explore wh...Data reveals Lilly's PKC inhibitor improved symptomatic diabetic peripheral neuropathy
...vibratory sensation (ability to feel an externally applied vibrating stimulus) with a significant correlation between the two.[ii] In the 83 patients that had clinically significant symptoms as determined by the Neuropathy Total Symptom Score-6 (NTSS-6), symptomatic improvement was measured. The NTSS-6 ques...Do stroke therapies really work?
... left hemispheres had been damaged by stroke. They applied a field with a slow frequency of 1 hertz, which animal studies show has a dampening effect, to the corresponding right hemisphere area for 10 minutes. The aim was to dampen rather than stimulate neural activity. As a result, the patients' ability to...Adaptive optics technology provides powerful tools for eye doctors
...company's laser refractive surgery device, and has applied for FDA approval of the system. One of the complicating factors in laser refractive surgery is that the living tissue of the cornea, after being reshaped by the laser, often responds in ways that introduce higher-order aberrations, said Ian Cox, a re...Simple guide for suncreams will help users
...esenting roughly 9% of the total. Sunscreen can be applied to the recommended thickness if two strips of sunscreen are squeezed out onto both the index and middle fingers from the palmar crease to the fingertips. The application of this "two fingers" of sunscreen will provide a dose of the product that appro...UC researcher utilizes historical control group for new osteoporatic fracture analysis
...of the UC Bone Health and Osteoporosis Center, has applied an innovative new method for analyzing fracture efficacy for an osteoporosis therapy in a study that was conducted without a placebo control group. The original study was intended to compare two different dose forms of Actonel (risedronate sodium ta...New gene therapy protocol: First successful treatment for 'bubble babies'
... caused by enzyme deficiency. "The concept can be applied to all genetic diseases where there is a need to engineer stem cells to produce normal products, especially when patients have no matched donor available for safe bone marrow transplantation," Slavin said. Conventionally, such patients are usually t...Breakthrough! UNC scientists' research promises improved X-ray machines using carbon nanotubes
..., associate professor of physics and astronomy and applied and materials sciences. Dr. Sha Chang, associate professor of radiation oncology at the UNC School of Medicine, also participated in the project. "Scientists and others, including the popular press, have shown a lot of interest in carbon nanotubes be...Vaccination delays onset of prion brain disease in mice
...oach presented in the new study may be more easily applied to animals, such as cattle, at risk for developing...on disease, and our results suggest that it may be applied to all members of the extended category of conformational diseases," says Dr. Wisniewski. Set up ...Jefferson Lab/Hampton University partnership results in new medical instrumentation center
...nter personnel in medical physics, engineering and applied technology. In addition to five students and two part-time administrative assistants, Keppel expects up to 10 individuals from Hampton University, the Lab, and EVMS to staff CAMI. "We pool expertise in one place and we get the word out," she says. "T...Dont turn to assisted reproduction too quickly warns US expert
...g classified as clinically infertile a definition applied after a year of trying to conceive. But, their research had clearly shown that among outwardly healthy couples with no known conditions associated with infertility, most who failed to conceive naturally within the first year will conceive naturally i...Hormone therapy study stopped due to increased breast cancer risk, lack of overall benefit
...uw, the adverse effects of estrogen plus progestin applied to all women, irrespective of age, ethnicity, or prior disease status. "When the estrogen-only trial is completed, a comparison of the results of these two trials may provide a better idea of the roles of estrogen, compared to estrogen plus progestin...Misclassification of cause of death in cancer patients
...ying disease. To determine if this rule is being applied uniformly to cancer patients, Welch and Black used national cancer registry data to find out the reported cause of death in patients who, between 1994 and 1998, died within 1 month of cancer-related surgery to remove a solid tumor. Among the 4,135 de...More frequent ivermectin treatment could reduce symptoms of disease responsible for river blindness
...male parasite gives new hope that ivermectin, when applied correctly, may be able to eradicate the ancient scourge of onchocerciasis from many parts of the world....