Digital Speech Analysis Tests Sobriety
...uch as emotion and style. She discovered distinct differences between normal speech and thatproduced under emotional stress, with an accuracy rate of over 90percent. For her current research, Cummings said, "the idea is, can we do thesame thing with sober versus intoxicated speech? If we have a sample ofsomebo...Use Of Surfectant Therapy Widens Gap In Death Rate Of Black And White Newborns
...their own. In the study, the researchers found the differences in death ratescould not be explained by black babi...rtality," Hamvassaid. "But, actually, we found the differences in surfactant administrationand the changes in the death rate were purely due to the differences in ...What Makes Tics Tick? Clues Found In Tourette Twins' Caudates
...nstitute of Mental Health have traced such symptom differences to "supersensitivity" of certain neurotransmitter ...date D-2 binding predicted almost absolutely their differences in tic severity," said Weinberger. "This also likely explains the ebb and flow of tics experienced ...Study Demonstrates Safety & Effectiveness Of Asthma Drug
...n in the as-needed group, therewere no significant differences between the two groups in measures of lungfunction...ould be attributed tothe treatment. Although a few differences between the two groups could beattributed to the treatment, the effects were small and deemed to be ......sion in pediatric AIDS may largely be explained by differences in the potential of (certain) HIV strains (with particular affinity to the thymus and which can cross the placenta during gestation) to cause early thymic disruption... "In addition to their pathogenetic importance, our findings have clinical implica...Stents Work Well, But Are Costly: Will Hospitals Continue To Use Them?
...lity of hospitals and other providers to absorbthe differences in reimbursements will become more and more of an issue."These are growing problems that are going to concern hospitals inthe future when their economic motivations are increasingly placed in directconflict with their desire to do the best for patien...It Matters Where, In America, You Suffer A Heart Attack
... United States to paint a picture of what regional differences exist in the treatment of heart attacks. They look...ontrasts were quite striking, including some large differences in efficiency that we did not expect, as well as some we anticipated," said Eric Eisenstein, who spe...NIAID Stops AIDS Study Prematurely Because Drug 'Cocktail' Boosts Survival
...hs in the triple- therapy arm," he said. "No major differences were found in either safety or toxicity between the two treatments, and study medications were well-tolerated." Indinavir, a protease inhibitor, works by preventing protease enzymes from cutting up proteins needed to form viruses, Eron explained. Th...Duke Study Uses Tiny Temperature Changes To Probe Water-Exclusion At Protein Binding Sites
...ke University bioorganic chemist is exploiting the differences betweentwo forms of water to probe how proteins' s...e andhis students were able to measure temperature differences as small as amillionth of a degree as protein binding sites bound ligands in normal andheavy water. ...Substance from Grapefruit Juice May Make Medications Safer
...is is important because, normally, there are large differences in CYP3A4 levels between individuals, which, in turn, affect their metabolism of drugs. Thus, a dose of a drug that may be effective for one individual can be toxic to another. Addition of the active substance in grapefruit juice to a medication co...Study Finds Incidence Of Stroke Over 40 Percent Higher Than Previously Stated Figures
... in the United States during 1996. "These differences between blacks and whites with respect to strokeincidence rates mirrors the differences in stroke mortality rates between blacksand whites in the US population," the scientists write in th......allogeneic transplants. There are other differences between the Duke patients and previousstudies describing IPS. In addition to receiving autologous transplants, theDuke patients were treated using the same chemotherapy protocol and werefollowed very closely for signs and symptoms of lung toxicity. ......d learning skills. No significant side effects or differences betweenbeclomethasone and theophylline were found in the study. Although theophylline has a reputation among doctors and parents forcausing behavioral problems in children, this research shows this isn't true inthe age group examined. "No on...... characteristics. Personality researchers measure differences in human personality by looking at ahandful of components, including shyness or gregariousness, patterns ofthinking, measures of negative emotionality and measures of positiveemotionality. Previous research has led personality researchers to conside...Could Cardiovascular Drugs Be Linked To Suicide?
...cidence of suicide (that remained significant when differences in cardiovascular morbidity were considered). Furthermore, in a five year study of drugs for high blood pressure the authors found a fivefold increase in the incidence of suicide, in users of calcium channel blockers compared with users of other an......ehavior. "We were surprised to find no significant differences between compensationtypes," said Dr. Douglas Conra...an/patient level -- to be resulting in substantial differences inthe level of services provided per patient. For example, we see no evidencethat such physicians a...Clinical Pharmacists Improve Outcomes Of Heart Failure Patients
...orted fivedeaths and 11 rehospitalizations. While differences in deaths were notstatistically significant, there was a significant reduction in the number ofre-admissions to the hospital, the researchers concluded. Patients in the intervention group were more likely to be on a higherdose of ACE-inhibito......y MedicalCenter researchers have found significant differences in heart attack ratesreported by physicians who ac...of the drug in theother three trials. While these differences of opinion had no effect on patientcare, the researchers believe that the results should help them r...Keeping Score On Doctors: Report Says Flaws In Counting Must Be Addressed To Ensure Accuracy
... crucial for agenciesrating doctors to account for differences among patients. "Medicine, particularly with heart disease patients, is a highlyinteractive enterprise, with many physicians involved in a single case," Jollissaid. "A heart attack patient may be treated by an emergency room physician, andtr......o analyze how youth smoking rates were affected by differences in cigarette taxes from state to state. "The problem with this cross-sectional approach, however, is that each state has different antismoking sentiments which could be influencing the onset of smoking among youth," says Kenkel. "For example, the to...