Health and fitness facilities need defibrillators
...ties and those with special seniors programs to be equipped with the devices and to provide training. The statement appears in todays Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. An AED is about the size of a large textbook and is used to analyze the hearts rhythm and tell a bystander respondi...Intensity modulated radiation therapy at Fox Chase Cancer Center
...erator (the radiation treatment machine), which is equipped with metal leaves or fingers that mold the beams to conform to the 3-dimensional shape of a prostate. These leaves move during delivery of the beam in order to customize the radiation dosage to different areas of the tumor. New studies presente...Improving communications and support for doctors, patients and partners
... Practitioners in Melbourne, Australia, are better equipped to meet the needs of breast cancer patients follow...icated that following the seminar they were better equipped and more confident in meeting patients needs during the treatment phase and beyond. PATIENTS THINK ...Iron supplementation enhances aerobic training in iron-depleted women
... they trained 5 days a week on an ergometric cycle equipped with a heart rate monitor and digital output of cadence and work. They gradually increased their workloads until they were cycling for 10 minutes at 75% and 15 minutes at 85% of their maximum heart rates. Exercise tests were conducted on a cycle er...Matching for liver transplants could prevent disease recurrence, says Pitt study
... transplants of the liver, an organ that is better equipped to mediate immune reactions against it. Hence, the test is not used to determine whether a donor liver is a good match for a particular recipient. Instead, surgeons pay closer attention to blood type compatibility and the size of the liver relative t...Detection of bioterrorism viruses brought closer to local sites
...ly two laboratories in the United States currently equipped to analyze specimens, such as suspected smallpox viruses, in an environment where the investigators aren't at high risk of infection. The laboratories are known as Biosafety Level 4 facilities: the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the U.S. ...Armed with AEDs, police save lives by cutting response time
DALLAS, Aug. 13 In communities where police are equipped with automated external defibrillators (AEDs), peo...rt Association. Police in Miami-Dade County, Fla., equipped with AEDs cut response time to sudden cardiac arrest victims by almost three minutes, the study show...Sutter Health announces plan to deploy Bridge MedPoint error-prevention system
...kforce concluded MedPoint was the BPOC system best equipped to meet all our clinical and technical criteria," noted Sutter CIO and Information Systems VP John Hummel, whose work spearheading integration of numerous technologies throughout Sutter was recently recognized by Computerworld. "Bridge has perfected ...OHSU receives $7.8 million NIH grant to develop first ultrasound to also deliver heart treatment
...f the heart, high ultrasound frequency and will be equipped to record abnormal electrical currents of the heart. The second ultrasound device will retain the hockey-stick shape with the ultrasound channels positioned on the tip offering a smaller 2-D view, but a higher frequency ultrasound. This device will...Obesity study focuses on after-school hours
...well," Dr. Yin said, with the help of a mobile van equipped with a machine using low-dose radiation to accurately measure percentage of body fat compared to muscle and bone. They'll also keep records of what children eat and psychosocial issues such as their confidence in doing physical activity. Richmond Co......ty mechanical engineering student Jeremy Neubauer) equipped with three "accelerometers," small devices that di...f material that approximates human head stiffness) equipped with the headbands. Results were fairly surprising--the headbands appeared to provide little benefi...For determining protein structures, a new method boosts precision and speed in high-dimensional NMR
... to bring the horsepower of our new 'NMR-Ferraris' equipped with cryogenic probes on the road." Szyperski developed the method with Seho Kim, Ph.D., formerly a postdoctoral fellow in Szyperski's lab, as a member of the Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium, (NESGC) one of nine National Institutes of Heal...Soaking in the genius of Mother Nature
...ltidrug-resistant. Such cell lines are essentially equipped with cancer's version of a bilge pump, Handy said, an enzyme that actively transports most drugs out of the cell before they can take effect. As a result, the cells are resistant to many of the drugs and treatment protocols normally used to combat ca...The MNI's de Grandpr Communcations Centre wins International Room Competition
...udge_bpr . The de Grandpr Communications Centre is equipped for multimedia presentations, videoconferencing, distance learning and telemedicine. The room seats 67, with a central conference table for small group sessions. The adjoining Bell Room is also available for small groups or to expand the capacity o...UC Davis physicians use high-tech virtual system
...UC Davis is "Simantha™," a simulated patient equipped with patented, tactile force-feel technology that ...al Simulation Corporation of Denver. The system is equipped to mimic the range of conditions and variables that a health-care provider would experience with an ...U.S. News & World Report ranks The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia the top pediatric center
...er survivors. The 50-bed Newborn/Infant Center is equipped to provide for the complete range of neonatal and infant critical illnesses, including all types of respiratory, surgical, cardiac, genetic, renal neurological, hematological and metabolic diseases. The Newborn/Infant Center receives approximately 90...Airbag to keep windsurfer safe on 8000 km voyage
...build windsurfer, 7.80 m long and weighing 550 kg, equipped with a GPS navigation system, radio and satellite phone, and loaded with canned and dried food. Six sails - from 4.2 to 7.4 square metres - secured to a carbon fibre mast and using an aluminium wishbone are the 'engines' on board, along with Le Gouve...Babbling key to evaluating speech development in babies with hearing loss
...most parents, and even some professionals, are not equipped to know what sounds a child should be making as they learn to talk with a hearing aid or cochlear implant. "Without firsthand listening experience, the identification of speech problems in very young children may be delayed simply because professiona...Study raises prospect of practical vaccine for metastatic melanoma
... of a patient's tumor and mixing it with specially equipped viruses, which carry a gene for a substance called granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF). The viruses invade the melanoma cells and deposit the gene there, causing the cells to begin pumping out GM-CSF. The cells are then re-inje...