New hand-held information system for emergency responders
...tions and using their feedback as input for future enhancements to WISER. For example, NLM is working with CapWIN, an integrated transportation and criminal justice information wireless network across Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. WISER has been added as a resource to this network, providing e...Is it ethical to use enhancement technologies to make us better than well?
...s that "an alarming number of supposedly risk-free enhancements have later been associated with unanticipated side effects."...Panel offers recommendations for monitoring adverse events from dietary supplements
...omponents of such a system, as well as recommended enhancements to improve the effectiveness of the system including: (1) a proposal of a surveillance program for the dietary supplements sector that would make such a system practical and auditable; (2) a user-friendly approach for consumers that was simple and co...New study to use electronic medical records to improve care of patients with diabetes
...tem as it is currently used and to examine it with enhancements for physicians and patients. The five-year grant is part of a $139 million national package of grants and contracts awarded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, part of the U.S. Department of Health Human Services, to promote the use o...Primary instrument is delivered for ESA's CryoSat mission
...adar altimeters but with a number of sophisticated enhancements to overcome the challenges of measuring two different kinds of ice cover. SIRAL will be able to acquire very precise measurements of the thickness of relatively thin floating sea-ice so that annual variations can be observed, and also accurately surv...Ethics of boosting brainpower debated by researchers
...er. Illes said the key difference between physical enhancements such as plastic surgery and neural enhancement through drugs or brain implants comes down to personhood. A nose job doesn't change who you are. Drugs might, she said. "Am I the same person on Ritalin as off?" Farah asked. Farah said there have been n...Hearing aid research gets federal boost
...phones that create less self-noise will mean major enhancements to speech intelligibility in noisy environments, Miles said. Miles said these improvements would be accomplished by means of three interrelated areas of technology development: novel directional microphones, novel optical electronic sensors and novel...National conference to address communication problems in health care (Oct. 22)
...ve, the conference will focus on how communication enhancements can improve both the quality of care and health outcomes, with a particular emphasis on the needs of people with chronic disease. The conference will address both interpersonal and health care system communication, as well as the critical and expand...Sandia helps public health officials with anti-terror 'decision analysis' tool
...lysis Center (WMD-DAC). Researchers are working on enhancements that will expand the program to other key entities. "If an event like this were to occur, decision-makers would have to act quickly and efficiently, but without the luxury of having all of the information at their fingertips immediately," said Howard...'SolarScan' for earlier skin cancer detection
...in doctors' surgeries anytime from now on and that enhancements to the device will be ongoing. Polartechnics has also had recent success with a cervical cancer detection device Truscan which is currently undergoing clinical trials in Australia and Europe.......lly share costs. This collaboration will focus on enhancements to predictive ADMET (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity). ADMET encompasses key characteristics of a drug that affect its safety and efficacy and is the basis for many candidate failures in clinical trials. The goal of the...