NICHD-Funded Researchers Show Estrogen Effects On Brain After Menopause
...sense words--such as "gex," "hib," and "mek"--on a computer screen. Thescreen went blank for 20 seconds, and then a new sequence was shown: two of theprevious words, along with two new nonsense words. The women were then asked toidentify the words they had seen previously. To test their non-verba...IOM Report Offers New Look At U.S. Vaccine Priorities
...yS. Fauci, M.D., director of NIAID. Anyone with a computer and spreadsheetsoftware will be able to access the model from the IOM free-of-charge and adaptit to other conditions or candidate vaccines. NIAID - the major supporter of vaccine research nationwide - requested thereport in 1995 as a follow-up to tw...New Model Shows How To Eradicate World's Leading Infectious Cause Of Blindness
...homa amongchildren is most prevalent, according to computer projections developed byresearchers at the University of California San Francisco. They report theirfindings in the May, 1999 issue of Nature Medicine. "Our model shows that in areas where the incidence of trachoma is high - wheremore than half of th...Chronically Ill Teens Turn To Internet For Peer Support, Researchers Report
...n's Center patients; social worker Andrea Everton; computer programmerGeorge Ciervo; and Johnson, a medical informatics specialist. The service was launched in September 1997 with 17 Children's Center CFpatients. A one-year evaluation showed that each participant used the site anaverage of six times ...... they'll learn about the brain through interactive computer programs. They'll see actual surgical instruments and learn how they work. They'll meetmembers of the institute's staff and have a chance to ask questions aboutcareers in the neurosciences. They'll be able to dress up in surgical scrubs andhave thei......iate access systems are created, say Ian Denley, a computer analyst and Dr Simon Weston Smith from the Conques...tions of spending patients' taxes on sophisticated computer systems to protect the privacy of their data, as opposed to funding the provision of services, must ......in the microchip are periodically transferred to a computer for analysis by thepatients' caregivers. The (Swiss) research team consisted of Drs. Burnier, M.P. Schneider, A.Chiolero, C.L. Fallab and H.R. Brunner, at the University of Lausanne Divisionof Hypertension....Is handwriting truly individual? UB computer scientists are finding out
...o research being conductedby University at Buffalo computer scientists. Researchers in UB's Center of Excellence for Document Analysis andRecognition (CEDAR) have been awarded a $428,000, 16-month grant from theNational Institute of Justice to develop computer-assisted handwriting-analysistools for fo...New cancer treatment facility opens
...less and filmless environment. Critical andunique computer systems designed to assure privacy of all patient recordsinclude: a Disease Management System to chart the best step-by-step approachfor each patient's treatment; an Electronic Medical Records System that usesdigital technology to store electronic i...Noninvasive test aims to prevent sudden cardiac death
...at-by-beat abnormalities that are detected through computer analysis, much like a microscope picks up details that can't be seen by the naked eye. By examining the relationship between the presence of these tiny signals and a patient's heart rate, doctors can identify people at risk of developing life-threat...Advance reported in search for skin cancer treatment
... at the Universityof Notre Dame have constructed a computer model of the chemical structure of anenzyme that m...sen steadily over the past 20 years. The computer model provides atomic details of the binding interactionsof damaged DNA and DNA photolyase, the repa......asingsocietal demands for services such as 24-hour computer support lines and mailorder catalogues. In addition, according to the Census Bureau, the number ofteens aged 15-19 is expected to increase from 18.5 million in 1996 to 26.5million by 2050. "People with insufficient sleep suffer impairments in perf...Computer matches CT scans to disease database
...nergy of human interaction and machine learningand computer vision algorithms," says Brodley, an assistant pro...orking with Avi Kak, a professor of electrical and computer engineering;graduate students Chi-Ren Shyu, Jennifer Dy, Mark Flick, Sean MacArthur andChristina Pav......ms was still faced with aconsiderable challenge in computer graphics to render them useful. "By the third sectioning, the brain was basically in cubes, so there were plentyof cut marks and other defects that I had to airbrush out to arrive atacceptable images." Sylvius, includes more than 1,500 suc...PSA testing alone cannot fully explain drop in deaths from prostate cancer
...ers at the NationalCancer Institute to construct a computer model that would estimate the number ofdeaths prevented by PSA testing between 1988 and 1994, and project what themortality would have been in the absence of such testing. The model, a sort ofintelligent number-crunching device, used data from Medica...UMass researchers teaching computers to interpret MRIs
...ith some white. UMassresearchers hope to train the computer to separate the image into the lesion,consisting o... and the healthy region. In addition,they want the computer to be able to give a reliable evaluation of the volume ofthe lesion. Comparing images taken before, ...Scientists capture images of brain in action as it's learning
...he two tones always predicted a visual eventon the computer screen. During the exercise, regional cerebral blood flow (which signifies brainactivity) was measured in both the aware and unaware groups using a brainimaging technique called positron emission tomography (PET). In students who figured out or becam...Wake Forest researchers develop new technique to diagnose narrowed heart arteries
...n MRI imaging to develop thenew test. They created computer software to control the scanner and analyze datathat made it possible -- for the first time -- to measure blood flow in the smallvessels leading to the heart. Second, they used this imaging technique to measure flow while the heartis stresse......concern within thebrain. When coupled with modern computer dose-planning software, the gammaknife's working accuracy is considered to be 1 millimeter or less. Not all tumors and brain abnormalities can be treated with the gamma knife. Dr.Pollock says he refers 30 percent to 40 percent of cases sent to him t...Robotic technology to help Ohio State University heart surgeons
... while peering through a computer console. Video cameras mounted in a third arm provide a three-dimensional, magnified view of the surgicalsite. In essence, the physician performs 'virtual' surgeryon ...