Nasal Spray Flu Vaccine By U-M Researcher Is 93% Effective
...ngimmunity than that produced with the traditional dead virus vaccine. Andsecond, the vaccine is administered in a nasal spray that the children in thestudy "much preferred." "The tri-valent vaccine contains two different A influenza strains and oneB strain, and protected children from both the A...You Don't Need To Make Sperm Or Even Be Alive To Be A Father
.... Last week, forthe first time, sperm taken from a dead man resulted in a human birth.Meanwhile, an Italian IVF specialist claims to have produced four babies usingsperm grown in the testes of rodents. Gaby Vernoff, whose husband Bruce died from a reaction to a prescriptionmedicine in 1995, gave b...Women May React To General Anesthesia Differently Than Men
...gree of unconsciousness.The scale ranges from 0 (a dead brain) to 100 (fully awake). The 1997 Dukestudy, supported in part by the manufacturer of the device, Aspect MedicalSystems of Natick, Mass., was the first to test BIS with human surgery patients.Based on the findings of that research, as well as oth...UMass researchers teaching computers to interpret MRIs
...The area where the stroke has occurred, comprising dead and injured tissue,shows up as a bright region in ...parate the image into the lesion,consisting of the dead or injured tissue, and the healthy region. In addition,they want the computer to be able to give a r...New laser treatment allows patients to swallow and breath easier
...en said.Finally, the scope is placed to remove the dead cancerous tissue. After this20-minute procedure, the tumor scabs over and function is restored. The entireprocess takes about five days and is generally accomplished on an outpatientbasis. According to the experience from the use of PDT a...... down where it is moist.) Honey causes scabs and dead cells to lift off the surface of the wound, leaving a clean healthywound bed in which re-growth of tissue can occur. Honey stimulates the re-growth of tissue involved in the healing process. It stimulates theformation of new blood capillaries and......classmate had gone 'out west' and brought back two dead gunmen for dissection. Such is the case, however, for a medical school born in the days of the stagecoach and this year celebrating its 150th anniversary, says medical historian Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D., in a paper in the current issue of the Journ......atch. The microblades cut through the skin's outer dead surface, forming tiny slits that allow medicine to be delivered locally or systemically without drawing blood and without pain. In turn, the microslits allow large molecules to enter the skin and travel to their target. This truly "cutting-edge" devi......could be more of a burden on defending forces than dead ones. "I'd rather be vaccinated if I was facing anthrax attack," says anthrax expert Martin Hugh-Jones of Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. "But if you inhale enough spores nothing can save you." Soldiers may not get the choice. BioPort ...... rhythm and have passed out or they may already be dead and not have a rhythm or have a flatline rhythm. In these cases, no shock should be administered." Electrical shock was administered to 15 people experiencing ventricular fibrillation. Four of the 15 patients who received shocks had cardiac arrest i...Imaging technique predicts success of bypass surgery or angioplasty
...ability of the new technique to contrast alive and dead areas of the heart in such a striking manner as da...t tissue in about 15 minutes, while lasting in the dead tissue for approximately one hour. Other methods for assessing heart damage include positron emis...A&E departments could help resolve the national shortage of corneal donors
...artment: observational study Patients pronounced dead in accident and emergency departments are potentia...sted from the relatives of all patients pronounced dead in one accident and emergency department in Scotland from April to July 1999. In addition, a simple ...Cell transplants offer hope of brain repair following stroke
...damaged by strokes. "Our goal was to replace the dead area of the cortex with neural stem cells that would mature into neurons and other brain cell types," says Gaurav Gupta, M.D., the lead author of the study. In their experiments, the researchers injected the cortical stem cells into the brains of n......e food chain, such as if a bird or animal eats the dead insect." Wren's compounds have been registered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as "biopesticides." Patent 6,037,344 for "Compositions and methods for controlling pest insects" was issued March 14. Cleary is developing a product for mos...New sensor upgrades artificial bomb sniffers
... odors, he says. In a process akin to replacing a dead battery with a fresh one, the new sensor is made with specially designed disposable fluorescent polymer beads. Because the beads are conditioned not to need odor-recognition training, degradation and retraining problems could be eliminated, Walt and ...Dead leave stain of distress on mortuary workers
...showed signs of trepidation about being exposed to dead bodies. These subjects were more likely to develop signs of distress over the course of their tour of duty, the researchers found. Individuals who report [physical] symptoms even before exposure may be at an increased risk after exposure, they say....Pregnancy and childbirth a major cause of death among Afghan refugee women
...4) of infants born to these women were either born dead or died after birth. Compared with women who died of non-maternal causes, women who died of maternal causes had a greater number of barriers to health care, and their deaths were more likely to be preventable. In an accompanying Commentary (p 639) G...New findings about brain's 'compass' offer clues about Alzheimer's
... after day. This patient had lost her ability for dead reckoning, or what scientists call path integratio...r house and walk two blocks west, its the sense of dead reckoning that tells you to expect a grocery store when you arrive. Its this ability that Froehler ...Medieval black death not bubonic plague
...enormous die-offs of rats. There are no reports of dead rats in the streets in the 1300s of the sort common in more recent epidemics when we know bubonic plague was the causative agent, says Wood. Instead of being spread by animals and insect vectors, the researchers believe that the Black Death was trans......line orally developed body odors that smelled like dead fish. This prompted Buchman and his colleagues to develop an IV formulation of the nutrient that was stable and could be administered through TPN solutions. "When we gave choline intravenously, we were able to get the blood levels of choline to nor...