'SolarScan' for earlier skin cancer detection
... of melanoma in all continents, SolarScan also has enormous export potential," says Polartechnics MD Victor Skladnev. "We hope to see SolarScan playing an important role in the early detection of skin cancer in this country and around the world". "The key to saving lives is early detection" says Dr Scott Men...Pop-up car bonnets will help reduce pedestrian deaths
...principles of car safety design that have produced enormous benefits for vehicle occupants can be extended to provide a safer environment for pedestrians during impact with a vehicle. For instance, dynamically raised bonnets and windscreen air bags can reduce head injury, while energy absorbing bumpers can re...Ginseng berry extract shows promise for diabetes, obesity
...t both obesity and diabetes, the ginseng fruit has enormous promise as a source of new drugs," said Yuan, who has worked with the University to apply for a patent on the development of ginsenoside Re as a diabetes medication. "The next step is to isolate the other substances in the extract, find out whether...Type 1 diabetes safely arrested with short-term use of new drug
... remarkable results reported in this study provide enormous hope for finding a cure for people with Type 1 diabetes, says Robert Goldstein, chief scientific officer of the JDRF. For the first time it has been shown that progression of the destructive autoimmune response can be stopped with few side effects an...Drug prescribing by nurses in the UK - Editor of the Lancet urges caution
...Richard Horton comments: "Nurse prescribing offers enormous benefits to patients. But the evidence indicates that the rate at which nurse prescribing is being implemented holds grave dangers if the policy set out by Milburn [Minister for Health], Jones [Royal College of Nursing], and others is acted upon - an...New journal series will educate physicians about medical errors
...ystems. Industries such as aerospace have invested enormous resources to develop systems that minimize such breakdowns. By adapting these systems to health care, we believe that we can decrease error rates and do a much better job protecting patients," he said. While this series of articles and conferences ar...'Digital microscopes' for dentistry course
...hology, and Oncology. "This way of learning offers enormous benefits," he said. "Every student in every lab sees exactly the same thing at the same resolution. The quality of the picture is also considerably sharper compared to what they might see under a 20-year-old microscope with poor optics. These subs...Media undermine efforts to tackle nicotine addiction
...es of the media and present a clear picture of the enormous problem of preventable disability and the 120,000 tobacco related deaths a year from the 13 million smokers in the United Kingdom, she concludes....Writing nanopatterns with DNA inks
... the results on the nanometer scale, could have an enormous impact on genomics and proteomics research. Results of the DNA patterning on both gold and silicon oxide, which is important for electronic and optical materials applications, will be published in the June 7 issue of the journal Science. "With this n...With cues from nature, scientists develop new method to purify drugs
...kin said. "If it could be scaled up, it could have enormous potential. It is too early to talk about potential commercial impact."...Behavior plays key role in disease development and control, according to 10-year prospective review
...ding laser discs, virtual reality and CD-ROMS have enormous potential in the area of long-distance assessment and treatment efforts. Virtual reality provides patients with opportunities to immerse themselves in highly realistic and challenging treatment environments that are difficult to replicate in treatmen...ACS announces awards for environmentally-conscious business innovation
... air conditioners. Semiconductor manufacturers use enormous amounts of hazardous chemicals and water (100,000 gallons of chemicals and 4 million gallons of wastewater daily) to define the shape and function of the chip's components. SC Fluids' new process, called SCORR, is more efficient and decreases the use...Grant of 20 million to establish the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative
...sity to play a part in attempting to alleviate the enormous burden of suffering and death caused by infectious disease in Africa. The implementation of the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative and the complementary research program fits neatly into Imperial College's expanding portfolio of medical research pro...University of Washington developing AI caretakers for Alzheimer's sufferers
...elp when needed. "The difference is it lessens the enormous toll this takes on a human caregiver, usually a spouse or other loved one," Kautz said. As a first step, the UW group, which also includes computer scientists Oren Etzioni, Dieter Fox and Gaetano Borriello, has developed a prototype for a wireless ha...Market potential exists for superconductivity in medical, energy, transportation sectors
...ower systems, the science of superconductivity has enormous potential in the marketplace, according to a report to be released in Houston on Aug. 8. With the theme Superconductors in the Marketplace, the 2002 Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC2002) http://www.ascinc.org/ , to be held Aug. 4 9 in Hous...A common-sense cure for obesity
... one--obesity is a common problem that extracts an enormous toll in health-care costs and human suffering, and for which there is no effective cure. The message of this Seminar is clear: "The childhood obesity epidemic can be primarily attributed to adverse environmental factors for which straightforward, if ...DARPA to support development of human brain-machine interfaces
...neration system, it proved to us that there was an enormous opportunity to pursue research leading to clinical applications. We are extremely grateful to DARPA for their vision in establishing a program that will provide the crucial support to launch this effort." In 2000, Nicolelis and his colleagues tested...Occupational therapy is cost effective, significantly improves quality of life for seniors
.... We demonstrated that occupational therapy is an enormous value for the money." The 15-month "Well-Elderly S...tive project." "The research results highlight the enormous promise of low technology interventions to improve quality of life and prevent disability among Amer...Foundation funds UCSF research to test diaphragms as HIV prevention tool
...ecause it protects the cervix, the diaphragm holds enormous promise for preventing HIV transmission. The cervix is a "hot spot" in terms of susceptibility to HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and the majority of infections most likely occur there. The surface of the cervix is ver......ll parts of the world. These advances have led to enormous gains in cardiovascular disease knowledge, but a gap remains in implementing this knowledge. The message must be loud and clear to world leaders, health-care providers and the public that much of the death and disability from cardiovascular disease ...