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Novel neural net recognizes spoken words better than human listeners

...lobbies and cocktail parties, for example.Even the best existing systems fail completely when as little as 10 percent ofhubbub masks a speaker's voice. At slightly higher noise levels, the likelihoodthat a human listener can identify spoken test words is mere chance. Bycontrast, Berger and Liaw's system...

Scientists grow heart tissue in Bioreactor

...ified a set of conditions that so far appear to be best for cardiactissue engineering," Vunjak-Novakovic said. Work continues. Understanding the structure of cancer A different sort of tissue engineering - understanding the growth and spread of breast cancer - also ...

Telemedicine can be used for accurate diagnosis of stroke symptoms

...use physicians with the expertise to determine the best treatment optionsfor stroke patients are primarily located in tertiary care hospitals,telemedicine - the exchange of data and information via electronic means tofacilitate diagnosis and treatment - seems a logical way to bring that expertiseinto comm...

Institute publishes "Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment"

...rupts so many aspects of an individual's life, the best programs providea combination of therapies and other services, such as referral to othermedical, psychological, and social services. The combination of treatmentcomponents and services to be employed must be tailored to meet the needs of theindividu...

Duke study: The heavier the mom at delivery, the more likely baby will be delivered by cesarian section

... delivery was 182. "Weight alone isn't the best way to compare people, since obviously atall person may weigh more than a short person without being obese," Bell said. "The BMI corrects for the three-dimensional nature of weight, and it is simple,non-invasive and inexpensive." BMI, because...

Each hour while they sleep, more than 26% of all Europeans stop breathing at least five times during ten seconds

...rs followed a well triedprotocol conforming to the best international standards. The investigators first visited the participants at home to inquire whether theyslept well or not. They made a night polygram on the spot, using a portableapparatus to record data ranging from oxygen saturation of the blood, ...

UI-led study indicates surgery is the best treatment for severe Bell's palsy paralysis

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- How to best treat patients with Bell's palsy who are at highri...s palsy. Theresearchers wanted to determine how to best identify which patients will be leftwith poor outcomes, establish whether surgical decompression mig...

National study focuses on families of people with diabetes and obesity

...factorfor heart disease. "The study design best suited to answer this question is a family study,where a large number of family members -- brothers, sisters, their parents, andtheir children -- are recruited," said Wagenknecht, associate professor of publichealth sciences (epidemiology) at Wake Fo...

Clinical trial demonstrates that bone marrow transplant followed by vitamin A-derivative treatment improves survival from a major childhood cancer

...sponsored study showed that these children havethe best chance of disease-free survival if their initial chemotherapy andsurgery is followed by high-dose chemoradiotherapy and an autologous bone marrowtransplant, where a child is re-implanted with her own bone marrow after it hasbeen cleared of cancer cel...

Racial disparity in lung cancer treatment must be overcome, UCSF specialists assert

...f our loved ones get cancer, theywill receive the best care possible." They also add that they don't ...linical trials : Most of the knowledge about the best lung cancer treatmentshas and will come from clinical trials. Many blacks are reluctant to enroll i...

Use it or lose it applies to nervous system, scientists find

...huddle under the nerve terminal so they are in the best place toreceive the chemical signal. For many years, Lichtman's group has used a fluorescent form of bungarotoxin tolight up acetylcholine receptors in living animals. This constituent of snakevenom permanently combines with the receptors, putting mu...

CWRU medical school announces $300 million campaign

...he 21st century, it must be prepared toattract the best faculty in the nation and have the facilities that...tional front, the medical school needs to help the best andbrightest students finance medical education, which, in this day and age, is avery expensive prop...

Why don't doctors follow directions? Lack of information, confidence, time & readiness to change, says new study

...s aim to help both physicians and patients makethe best decisions about health care. And as medical science advances, theseorganizations revisit, revise and reissue their guidelines so that physicianscan keep current without having to read numerous research journals. But, says Cabana, the mere existence o...

Annals of Internal Medicine Tip Sheet - October 19, 1999

... influenza(Editorial, p. 621). The writer says the best time to get vaccinated is Octoberto mid-November and suggests that families with both children and at-riskelderly persons consider vaccinating all family members....

Lack of sleep alters hormones, metabolism

...the fully rested state. Young adults may function best after morethan eight hours of rest each night. "While the primary function of sleep may very well be cerebral restoration,"note the authors, "our findings indicate that sleep loss also has consequencesfor peripheral function that, if maintained chron...

Age-related declines in mental function

...n the PET scans of the youngsubjects who performed best compared with the young who performed worst. "Whenwe divided the young subjects into poor performers and good performers, we foundthat the neuroimages of poor performers looked very similar to those ofseniors," says Geva. "Both showed much more act...

HIV prevention program targets young gay men through social networks and peer support for safe sex

...eveloped outreach and social activities that would best carry the message to young men within their respective settings. "By local young gay men having a sense of ownership of the program, there was an increased motivation to spread the message--adapting it as their own--to their peers," Kegeles said. ...

Research challenges conventional thinking on ways to treat prostate cancer

...9, Memorial Sloan-Kettering was named the nation's best cancer care center for the seventh consecutive year by U.S. News and World Report....

Despite the best available anti-aids drugs, Jefferson scientists detect active HIV in the bloodstream

...mproved drugs to eradicate the virus The best AIDS drugs are still not quite good enough. Scient... and had no detectable virus in their blood by the best available clinical assays. All patients had fewer than 50 copies of virus per milliliter of blood pl...

New book asks ethical questions about human subjects research

... researchers respect and work with subjects in the best possible way, to get the data they need and to connect their concerns with a new and different model of moral reasoning," Henderson says....

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(Date:11/25/2009)... fight rheumatoid arthritis, could help newly diag...AY, Nov. 25 (HealthDay News) -- A drug commonly us...arthritis now also shows some promise in helping p... The drug, rituximab (Rituxan), helped patients ke...h the disease had destroyed some of their pancreat...
(Date:11/25/2009)... sees few signs of trouble with the H1N1 vaccine,... -- The ongoing H1N1 swine flu pandemic may be dri...younger patients, a U.S. health official said Wedn...pneumococcal infections around the country," Dr. A...Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the U.S. ...
(Date:11/25/2009)...ncer vaccine carried into the body on a carefully ...to successfully eliminate tumors in mammals, scien...nslational Medicine . , The new approach, pionee...niversity, uses plastic disks impregnated with tum...to reprogram the mammalian immune system to attack...
(Date:11/25/2009)...n flesh that mimicked parts of speech colored perc...(HealthDay News) -- People can "hear" not only wit...ch shows. , In fact, sensations on the skin des...lped people decipher sounds better, the Canadian s...show whether we could use tactile information in t...
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