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...es from each individual to six commercial laboratories. Each of the six ...ome of the currently available commercial allergy tests." Inaccurate tests can have real costs to patients, she said. For...Science, engineering and technology newstips
...hanical systems, or MEMS. Some MEMS are already in commercial use, for example as motion sensors that trigger airbags in cars. Other applications are in miniaturization of optical and wireless communication systems, and in building chips that can perform chemical reactions on a miniature scale. Tien's laborato......se of its low-bandwidth requirement and the use of commercial off-the-shelf products. The communication conduit is already in place in the form of ISDN lines and the Internet. The software needed is readily available and affordable. Satava said the most expensive element is the hardware. Each VSM unit costs abo...Animal study show that heat-sensitive liposome improves chemotherapy delivery to tumors
... Celsion Corp., which has licensed the rights for commercial development of the liposome from Duke, will decide when and where future human studies are done, assuming current and future lab work at Duke and elsewhere uphold the potential of the technique. ...North Carolina researcher receives award for new ant-HIV drug that simplifies treatment regime
...whose discoveries and inventions contribute to the commercial success of their companies and enhance the quality of life....Farmers tend to work long past typical retirement age, survey finds
...of entry precludes getting into farming on a large commercial scale. The traditional 'farming ladder' - starting small and expanding over time - doesn't work very well in this day and age. Farming is one of the few occupations in the country where the main avenue of entry is family and inheritance." The farm ......ded a comparison of utilization among enrollees of commercial plans versus Medicare + Choice plans with capped prescription benefits. National Healthcare Policy Initiatives, Norman J. Ornstein, PhD, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research This nationally recognized analyst of ......52,000 continuously enrolled seniors covered under commercial plans and over 20,000 enrollees of a Medicare + Ch...am. Plan participants aged 65 or older enrolled in commercial health plans used an average of 29 prescriptions per year, more than four times the average seven pr...Media coverage of new drugs is often misleading
...disclose industry links, as evidence suggests that commercial funding of research may lead to more favorable research outcomes," says Ray Moynihan, the study's lead author, and an award-winning medical journalist with the Sydney-based Australian Financial Review. "This standard might be adopted by the news medi...World's largest scientific society to meet in Cincinnati/northern Kentucky area
...uriNOx, a water-blended fuel designed for use in commercial service diesel engines. The ceremony will begin at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 17. Ways to build a diverse workforce will be the focus of the "Diversity: A Requirement for Success" symposium. Former ACS president and current board member He...Nobel Laureate creates potent anticancer weapons
...the most complicated molecule ever to be made on a commercial scale, according to Corey. He referred to the compound as "approximately two orders of magnitude stronger (than Taxol®) in inhibiting tumor cell growth. This is another example of how synthetic chemistry contributes to medicine." (Paclitaxel,...Estrogen shows potential as stroke treatment, UF animal studies show
...ridge, Mass., which has licensed the rights to any commercial applications of this research. ...Chronic disease: the overlooked & understudied epidemic
... -- many of which were supported by companies with commercial interests -- have serious methodological flaws. Attempts at reassuring patients newly diagnosed with chronic conditions often provoke anxiety -- not because physicians do not spend sufficient time with their patients, but because they need to communi...Study casts doubt that melatonin goes down as age goes up: Older buyers take note
...nts target older people and encourage them to take commercial melatonin preparations to restore levels lost with aging. Older Americans who do, however, have responded to a false premise in the salesman's cry, according to results of a new study that contradicts the popular notion that melatonin levels in olde......ement the technology on realfeedstreams, in actual commercial processes. That work is currently under way." Millipore and Genentech provide support for Zydney's research. Serving on the UDproject team were a number of current and former graduate students, includingSkand Saksena, Narahari Pujar, Manoj Menon and ...It's high time we registered all clinical trials say editors of Lancet and BMJ
... opening up a "..window of vulnerabilityin (their) commercial armour." How can this be, ask the authors, when all they are doing is releasing administrative information and not actual data? Horton and Smith conclude that the pressure to register trials will only come when research ethics committees, medical res...First brain cancer surgeries using new space-age probe are successful
...cial lighting technology,developed for space-based commercial plant growth research on NASA's SpaceShuttle, in t...neveld, Wis. -- the company thatdeveloped LEDs for commercial plant growth investigations on the Space Shuttle. When the Phase II contract is awarded, Quantum Dev...