Brain-imaging cap under study for space and Earth use
...Massachusetts General Hospital are being evaluated doing relatively simple tasks, such as hand movements, under normal and sleep-deprived conditions," said Sutton, an associate professor in the Harvard University - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology. "We'll als...Opening up research ethics boards
...ion and coordination, and offer legal immunity for doing so....Pregnancy, birth rates fall among young women exposed to elementary school intervention program
...ps were included in the current paper. "We are not doing enough in this country to produce committed, productive citizens who can have a full life," Hawkins said. "To do that we have to make sure that children get off to a good start in elementary school. What is amazing is that without ever saying the w...Estrogen may dictate what problem-solving strategy brain uses
...rom a different approach, but they are not used to doing it that way, so they view the change as an impairm...trategy that you use to solve a task. It might be doing so by changing the functioning or activity of certain brain areas....Atlanta researchers to launch clinical trial of progesterone for treatment of brain injury
...y early if it is clear that one treatment group is doing better than the other. If the results of the pilot phase study are promising, the researchers anticipate that the study will be extended to additional level I trauma centers in other U.S. cities in future years. Rates of traumatic brain injury are ...American Medical Women's Association honors Dr. Marianne Legato with 2002 Women in Science Award
...ens Association, said Dr. Legato. The work we are doing at the Partnership for Womens Health and publishing in our peer-reviewed and indexed Journal of Gender-Specific Medicine is aimed at showing the relevance of gender to normal human function and the unique ways in which men and women experience diseas......nd making patients more comfortable. Dr. Cohen is doing her part by delving deeper into the psychological and existential side of things. She has already been able to show that admission to a palliative care unit will improve quality of life in more than just the physical domain. But so far, she notes, ...The current status of elder abuse in the United States
...ses the problem of elder abuse, what Americans are doing about it, and what else they can and need to do. The Report outlines the dimensions of the problem, the shortcomings of our responses, and the need to move elder abuse higher on the social policy agenda. In America today, there is much debate on the ...More preventive tuberculosis treatment should reduce cases in non-US-born
...the strain that was likely causing the disease was doing so through reactivation of a latent infection. Theresearchers found that the foreign-born were 2.5 times more likely to have a unique strain and, therefore, a reactivation of a latent infection acquired long ago. The study ...Research explains possible origin of Parkinson's tremors
... "In a normal brain, every cell is doing its own thing, and the signals create a random pattern," Terman said. "But in our model, we saw cells firing together in lockstep, creating a synchronized pattern that matched the timing of ...Burnout patients helped by comparisons with colleagues
...ocial comparison. Therefore, the feeling of Im not doing that badly should be built on in particular. Patients can also be taught to cope with comparative information forced upon them. In other words: the burnout patient must learn to arm himself against the negative feelings which comparisons can draw....Peptide promotes new growth in injured spinal cords
...at binds to the Nogo receptor and prevents it from doing its normal job," Strittmatter said. "There is no drug used today to promote axon recovery in humans, so it is hard to predict how well this drug will work in humans." He said the laboratory rats were administered the peptide for four weeks through a ......ones on the ground, in the air, and underwater are doing everything that is normally seen in a hostile comb...ds all armed and dangerous, and, best of all, all doing the dirty work. Now imagine this network as mobile made ready in a matter of minutes and modified ...Medicare shortchanges initial doctor visit, SFVAMC study says
...he said. "Typically Medicare reimburses more for doing things to the patient, such as a procedure or addr...me doctors can still take advantage the system, by doing less to help the patient and billing for more, Landsverk said....Experience alters how we perceive emotion
...tive of neuroscience and the developing brain." By doing so, he hopes to pinpoint underlying mechanisms that could lead to the development of tailored interventions to help abused children....Simple questions may help predict death risk for heart patients
... says Spertus. "We spend a lot of time in medicine doing tests to figure out who is at the highest risk so we can be more aggressive in treating those patients. Here's a simple questionnaire that could be used for a similar purpose. "It is much easier to administer than a nuclear stress test, which can c...Dartmouth/VA researchers examine news coverage of breast cancer prevention
...of two breast cancer preventive strategies and, in doing so, raise questions about how well the press cover...ning tests as critically as they examine drugs. By doing so, they may help the public better appreciate the pros and cons of medical interventions. Balanced...Saint Louis University researcher: 'Pet therapy' works
...ike to own a pet, but currently was prevented from doing so. More than 95 percent said they were responsibl...ve you ever walked a dog in the park? Even without doing anything, the dog can act as a catalyst and as an ice-breaker by encouraging people to socialize." T...Women cured of childhood leukaemia should be advised to have children while they are young
...L can become pregnant and have babies and they are doing so. However they should not postpone childbearing, and it might be that they should consider becoming mothers before pursuing a career," concluded Dr Larsen.......king. They also exercised two days a week at home, doing exercises of their own choosing, mostly walking. T...e also able to directly observe what the women are doing rather than just relying on what they report on questionnaires. Therefore, we have more confidence i...