Digital Speech Analysis Tests Sobriety
...e really simple distance measuresthat involve very few calculations." The analysis would be done by computer, based on a mathematicalformula that would yield a percentage probability as to whether thespeaker was intoxicated. The only stumbling blocks could be recording quality and legalissues, such as ...Emory Doctors Discuss "Killing Heat" In This Week's NEJM
...: "Since access to air-conditioning for even a few hours each day is protective, local governments in high-risk areas of the country should consider modifying their building codes to require every hotel and apartment building to provide an air-conditioned lobby." "Relatives, friends and neighbo...Study Demonstrates Safety & Effectiveness Of Asthma Drug
...at could be attributed tothe treatment. Although a few differences between the two groups could beattributed to the treatment, the effects were small and deemed to be clinicallyunimportant. Asthma Clinical Research Network (ACRN) was created in 1993 by the NHLBIas a five-year program to expedite design ...A Surgical Semiconductor Laser With More Precision And Power
...produced, semiconductor lasers usually cost only a few thousand dollars, compared totens of thousands of dollars for a comparable gas laser. Semiconductor lasers also have an advantage over gas lasers in portability: gas lasers are often immovablerefrigerator-sized units. By contrast, a semiconducto...It Matters Where, In America, You Suffer A Heart Attack
...likely to need further hospitalization in the next few months, researchers said Tuesday (Nov. 12) at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association. Duke University Medical Center researchers used detailed medical, economic, and quality-of-life information for more than 2,300 patients across the...Johns Hopkins To Announce AIDS Capitated Care Program
...V care that could be adopted nationallyin the next few years, according to John G. Bartlett, director of the divisionof infectious diseases. Hopkins will announce details of the program, called "Moore Options," ata press briefing Thursday, Jan. 16 at 10 a.m. in the Johns Hopkins OutpatientCenter, Room 2...Researchers Gain Insights Into Drugs Used For Manic-Depression
...ffects many people discontinueits use. In the past few years, an anticonvulsant drug prescribed forepilepsy, called valproate, was also found to be effective. Cliniciansdiscovered that best results often occurred by using a combination of bothdrugs, especially in patients who have a form of the disease t...Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
...ot where people get vaccinated, but there are very few reports of such nodules at the site of vaccination...he didn't have a way of testing the theory until a few years ago, when Purdue established a laboratory for accelerator mass spectrometry. AMS, a technique ...3D Ultrasound Gives Better View Of Brain's Arteries
...d is being applied in ways that were only dreams a few yearsago. Why are these dreams coming true today? As Delcker explained in aninterview, new computer workstations are allowing 2D ultrasound data sets to beelectronically reconstructed as 3D images. Ultrasound is also less expensive t...Psychiatric Symptoms May Signal Brain Damage From Diet Pills
...ems, but not for a person who just wants to lose a few pounds for cosmetic reasons," explained McCann. "Many people who try diet pills quickly regain their weight after they stop taking the drugs, so they might be tempted to continue taking them. We won't know the long-term risks of these drugs until c...Cancer Protection Compound Abundant In Broccoli Sprouts
...studies are currently under way to see if eating a few tablespoonsof the sproutsdaily can supply the same degree of chemoprotection as one to two pounds ofbroccoli eatenweekly. The sprouts look and taste something like alfalfa sprouts, according toTalalay. Talalay founded the Brassica Chemoprotec...NIH Honors Emory Researcher With Merit Award For Work On Renin-Angiotensin System
...rmal time period for a research grant, providing a few outstandinginvestigators with the opportunity for long-term stable support that willenhance their continued scientific creativity and lessen the administrativeburdens of preparing and submitting grant applications. The $2-million MERIT award...Affordable, Hand-Held Biosensor For Diagnostics
...osensor is based on work conducted during the past few yearsin Sailor's laboratory with porous silicon, small chips of silicon sculptedthrough a chemical etching process into a forest of tiny trees. When a one centimeter-square of this silicon forest is stretched out, its surface area would be about as l...Mammography Messages Need To Be Tailored For Older Women
... beshort-lived, however. "A mammogram takes only a few seconds,and it can reveal breast cancer before it becomes a serious disease,"she says....Targon And Duke Cancer Center Sign $3.75 Million Agreement To Produce Advanced Anti-Cancer Drugs
...of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, "The last few years have witnessed enormous advances in basic cancer biology and the understanding of how normal cells transform into tumors. As a result, we now have more promising therapeutic leads than at any time in history, and we need to bring those therapie......nts werefirst given the drug or a placebo within a few hours of their stroke, then forsix weeks afterward, with a six-week, post-treatment follow-up period.Interneuron submitted a New Drug Application for citicoline to the FDA inDecember. The drug is already being marketed in approximately 30 countries. ......y andMorbidity Weekly Report (MMWR), indicate that few physicians counseled patientsabout how physical activity, diet and weight reduction can help reduce anindividual's risk of cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attack and stroke,which are the country's leading causes of death. Data from 29,273 of...Hollywood Increases Film Portrayals Of People With Disabilities
...nthe Best Actor award for "Rain Man" in 1988, very few autistic people aresavants. "We have seen a dramatic increase in what I call 'disability movies,'but most film critics will tell you there is very little reality basis in thefilm," said Safran, who teaches a course on disabilities in the medi...Exercise, Classroom Instruction Cut Kids' Cholesterol, Study Finds
...," Harrell said. "Ourwork is important because the few studies that have been done before on thislooked at younger children, and none has tested older children the way we did." "We strongly believe that if such programs were adopted statewide, inthe future we would see a reduction of heart diseas...Radio Frequencies Used To Kill Inoperable Liver Tumors At Penn's Cancer Center
...at Penn's Cancer Center... and available at only a few select hospitals across the nation. This technology enhances a surgeon's ability to access and successfully treat liver tumors -- which are commonly deemed "inoperable" due to their anatomical position inside the organ itself. "Many patient...