Obesity drugs not a quick fix for achieving weight loss
...bility of fast food. He says a personwho sits at a computer all day, takes the elevator to the snack machine a fewtimes each day and drives to the pizza place or hamburger joint for dinner andmaybe a few beers is a good candidate for weight problems. Unless thosebehaviors change, he says, all the diet drugs i...New computer model supports the importance of annual mammograms
...cer deathrate. The conclusions are based on a new computer model developed by JamesMichaelson, PhD, of the MG...growth and spread arefundamentally important. The computer model developed by Michaelson provides amathematical prediction of the growth and spread of breast c...UI study finds types of decision-making deficiencies depend on area of brain damage
...ur decks of cards -- labeledA, B, C, and D -- on a computer screen. The goal of the game was to win as muchmon...bjects chose a card, a green bar on the top of the computer screen changedaccording to the amount of money won or lost after each selection. Decks A and Bhad im...New anti-angiogenic proteins discovered
...search of the HGS human genedatabase. The initial computer search was conducted to identify new genes thatcontain thrombospondin-like elements; the METH-1 and METH-2 genes wereidentified using this method. The proteins were named "METH" because they contain elements similar tometalloproteinases as well as ...Many Virginians would increase taxes for K-12 education, study finds
...nes. "Because Virginia has a high rate of computer ownership (64 percent)compared to other states, we periodically ask how the home computers are beingused, and this year added a question about making purchases over the Internet,"she says. Surveyed Virginians with computers report: 76 percent are c...Scientists provide first detailed maps of wiring circuitry in the living human brain
...ctionsof humans. A nine-member team of physicists, computer scientists,neuroscientists, radiologists and anatomists spent three years developing thevariation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and analyzing data to providedetailed maps of brain wiring in living humans. The MRI fiber tracking method m...Cholesterol guidelines can reduce recurrent heart problems
...rnal ofthe American College of Cardiology. Using a computer simulation of 35- to 84-year-old Americans, the researchersmeasured the projected impact of the National Cholesterol Education Program(NCEP) guidelines between the years 2000 and 2020. They found that people withheart disease can expect to reap grea...New HIV drug intervention cheap and effective
...e United States and Uganda. The researchers used a computer model to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of using ... dose to mother and child."The researchers built a computer model to compare five short-course drug programs: HIVNET 012 universal, assuming that all pregnant w...OSU Medical Center uses robotic heart surgery technique
... guided by a surgeon at a computer keyboard. The surgery wa... The surgeon, at a nearby computer workstation, watches through a viewport to see inside the chest as a pair o...Research finds U.S. adolescents inactive; blacks, Hispanics, Asians at biggest risk
...ch time watching television and videos and playing computer games, amajor new University of North Carolina at ...such as watching television and videos and playing computer games thatwere combined into what they termed "inactivity," Larsen said. The twocategories often are...Novel neural net recognizes spoken words better than human listeners
... Afundamental rethinking of a long-underperforming computer architecture led totheir achievement. The system m...ech Recognition System not only bested allexisting computer speech recognition systems but outperformed the keenest humanears. Neural nets are computing devices...Peering into the amazing mind behind those baby blue eyes
... eyes is faster and far moresophisticated than any computer built, say the authors of the new book, "TheScientist in the Crib." Written by the University of Washington husband-wife team ofdevelopmental scientists Andrew Meltzoff and Patricia Kuhl and University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, psychologist Ali...Diabetes therapy may impair memory function in children
...n called spatialdeclarative memory. "They sat at a computer screen, and a dot would appear,"Hershey explained. "After a certain period of time, they had to point to thescreen where they remembered seeing the dot." With assistance from a computer, the researchers determined the child'saccuracy. As waiting time...New DNA chip method could improve cancer diagnosis
...yze the raw data. Scientists used asophisticated computer algorithm called a "self-organizing map" (SOM) that takesadvantage of the fact that many genes in a cell behave similarly and organizesthe data into clusters with similar patterns. SOMs have been used widely indata mining, particularly for large or ...Nanomolecular 'smart bombs' seek and destroy cancer cells
..., associate professor of electrical engineeringand computer science; Gerard Mourou, Ph.D., professor of electrical engineeringand computer science. The National Cancer Institute is a federal agency and part of the NationalInstitutes of Hea...'HARP MRI' provides faster, clear heart pictures
... feedback. But Prince says MRI tagging, in which a computer "marks" locations on the heartmuscles and then tracks their movements, produces a clearer picture. "An MRIprovides better resolution," he says. "You can see details better. With MRItagging, you can see what's going on within the walls of a heart musc...To build a better artificial hip, UD prof says, mimic Mother Nature
... loading conditions withinthe human hip region." A computer model of the UD hip design demonstrated up to 20 p...n associateprofessor of mechanical engineering. In computer simulations, UD's artificial hip "consistently performs better thanthe conventional design or the Eu......s) and the older subjects(ages 60 to 79) watched a computer monitor as patterns of vertical lines flashedbriefly before their eyes; they were then asked to identify which of the pair ofpatterns featured more closely-spaced lines. The use of PET scans--whichexploit the fact that when one area of the brain beco...