Real time health records reduce clinical errors, enhance time with patients
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...s the U-M campus, dental students use their laptop computers and high-speed Internet connections to view digital images of more than 50 different tissues. The tissues have been collected from patients who have been treated for an array of maladies at School of Dentistry clinics since the 1940s and stored on sl...First consensus guidelines on lightning safety issued before summer storms
...oor pools). The experts also recommend unplugging computers before a thunderstorm to avoid damage to it and to the person using it. Generic surge suppressors protect neither people nor equipment from lightning damage, they added. "If you can hear thunder or see lightning, you are at risk," said Dr. Cooper. "M...Study finds direct link between computer use and vision problems in children
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...g minutes of the Watergate tapes, but he can teach computers to deliver sounds that have been damaged in transm...k by reversing previous work. He previously taught computers to identify languages by distinguishing sound patterns. Now, by starting with the typical sounds of ...Intensity modulated radiation therapy at Fox Chase Cancer Center
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...this task, physicians often use radiation-planning computers that use patient data taken from computed tomography (CT) scanners. Also known as CAT scanners, these devices take x-ray pictures of a cancer region from a variety of angles to build a 3D image of the patient's tumor. To get scanned, the patient li...Wolfgang Glasser receives ACS award for wood chemistry, bio-based composites research
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...es 7 through 12 when asked to enter responses into computers to ensure confidentiality. "The Add Health survey included questions designed to find out how commonly adolescents consider seeking health care but do not go to doctors or other health care professionals," said Dr. Carol A. Ford, assistant professor...1999 American Heart Association 72nd Scientific Sessions kit memo
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