NYU Medical Center selects Siemens as strategic partner
...ans to construct a new magnetic resonance research facility near its mid-town campus in Manhattan to house some of the new equipment, including the new Siemens 7 Tesla magnet* that will require a special room reinforced by some 300 tons of steel. Siemens will additionally install two 3 Tesla high field magne...New Indiana University School of Medicine pediatrics program focuses on patient advocacy
...h youngsters at the Julian Center, an Indianapolis facility serving women and children who are victims of domestic abuse. Further, dental residents and nursing students will help the residents set up health programs in neighborhoods and schools. The partnerships with the four organizations and numerous famil...Pets do make a difference for patients in long-term care facilities
... non-participating residents in the long-term care facility also had had pets during childhood. One of the more interesting findings in the study was the spontaneous recollection of childhood pets by the residents. Participants would talk to their therapy animals about past events with their former pets. For ...Jefferson Lab/Hampton University partnership results in new medical instrumentation center
... with us." Groundbreaking for a new CAMI research facility on campus at Hampton University is scheduled for later this spring. When complete in 2003, the Center will enclose 12,000 square feet in two stories, housing primarily research labs and classrooms, but also some office space. Eventually, outpatient a...Detection of bioterrorism viruses brought closer to local sites
...e sterilization procedures in almost every medical facility for inactivating smallpox virus or B anthracis (anthrax) in patient specimens allows laboratory diagnosis of possible bioterrorism events due to smallpox virus by qualified laboratories at the local level. The autoclave study was done by Mark J. Espy...University of Washington developing AI caretakers for Alzheimer's sufferers
...e's Oatfield Estates is the development site. The facility is a prototype home for 60 residents that senses and records nearly all the activity in and around its campus movement of residents and staff, turning on and off of lights and appliances, opening and closing of doors. The intent is to feed the data...Researchers support early intervention for all children with reading difficulties
...tified if such a distinction resulted in increased facility in reading skills or identified children with different learning haracteristics. The authors contend, however, that there is little evidence to support that assertion. Instead, they report, "The solution is to carefully assess reading and reading-rel...Cancer revealed: New $10M grant establishes cancer imaging center
... both the U-M's medical imaging devices and VARI's facility where mice can be bred with specific genetic characteristics. The new grant will fund a Transgenic Animal Core at VARI and a Small Animal Imaging Core at the U-M. It will also fund training opportunities for young researchers in the field of molecula...Quality time with physical therapists above fancy equipment, convenient parking
...nt satisfaction than are the quality of equipment, facility location and availability of parking....Cardiac MRI provides new 3-D images of beating heart
...scular Magnetic Resonance Center (DCMRC), the only facility in Duke's service region -- and the first of its kind nationwide -- devoted exclusively to cardiovascular MRI. Unlike similar facilities where MRI machines may be used for many different clinical problems, the Duke scanner is devoted entirely to imag...Emergency angioplasty OK without surgical back-up
...rocedures rather than transfer patients to another facility with on-site surgery," says Sanborn, who is also c....5 percent among patients transferred from another facility to 4.8 percent among patients treatedin-house. The median elapsed time between patient arrival and a...UIC awarded $4.5 million to create exercise technologies for people with disabilities
...e. "Our work will help equipment manufacturers and facility planners design fitness and recreation equipment as well as fitness facilities in accordance with the demand," Rimmer said. In addition to Rimmer and Schiller, collaborators on the project include the University of Colorado, the Veterans Administrati...Women vets get less on-site specialty care at VA facilities
...mes more likely to contract services with a non-VA facility than a VA site, according to the researchers. "Off-site contracts allow VA facilities to expand the range of services offered, resulting in almost universal availability of specialized women's health services to VA users," Washington says. Although...St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to manufacture investigative drugs and vaccines
...tates to open a Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) facility for producing vaccines, drugs, proteins, gene-based molecules and other biological products. The facility also has Biological Safety Level (BSL) 3 laboratories to accommodate work with microorganisms that m...Nationwide improvement in nursing home care not likely, despite some changes
...nd Medicaid policies have affected skilled nursing facility (SNF) revenue and residents characteristics in Florida during the 1990s. They found that pro-profit SNFs maximized their revenues by admitting fewer Medicaid paying residents, whereas nonprofit facilities increased their percentage of Medicaid admis...MIT, hospital begin cancer trials
...emities. The trials are the first to use a new MIT facility dedicated to the treatment. The facility, the only...y. Housed in MIT's research reactor, it replaces a facility in the same location that had been used for 15 years. Busse is director of the clinical aspects of t...The MNI's de Grandpr Communcations Centre wins International Room Competition
...ing and audioconferencing capabilities connect the facility to off-site locations, and state-of-the-art presentation technology - projector, plasma display, document camera, overhead projector, slide converter, and electronic whiteboard - are all built in. The Centre's Executive Architect was Mr. Robert Hamil...Study gauges patient opinions in L.A. County
...nish-speaking patients who visited a county health facility at least once from February through July in 2002. Researchers found high ratings of patient satisfaction in several areas: Out of the three?fifths of adult patients who had made an appointment for regular or routine care in the preceding year, a majo...New study shows green algae extract boosts flu vaccine
... largest and most sophisticated privately held R&D facility for marine natural products in Canada, with primary focus on the discovery, development and commercialization of clinically validated marine ingredients. ONC is the largest producer of concentrated omega~3 fatty acid products in North America....FDA approves Baxters ADVATE for the treatment of hemophilia A
...its state-of-the art, multi-purpose, biotechnology facility in Neuchtel, Switzerland. This facility has the capacity to help ensure sufficient supplies of this therapy based on current and anticipated...