Hospitals Discourage Consumer Questioning Of Bills, Study Suggests
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... government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverseas airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, the stock market, andtelecommunications. The Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS), founded in 1958, works toadvance the theory and practice of operations research. Its primary ...Scientists Create Extremely Sensitive Test For Detecting Radiation Damage
...making use of this seminal technique in thevarious fields of life sciences, from toxicology to molecular biology,"according to an accompanying editorial in Science. "Armed with such a specific and sensitive assay, one can only begin toimagine some of the possibilities," the editorial writer said. "F......o the extremely lowfrequency electric and magnetic fields (EMF) that result from generating,transmitting and...dies of people living amidst electric and magnetic fields had alreadybeen begun and were continued, but the new federally coordinated effort alsosupported stu...Pioneer In Nuclear Medicine Wins Lifetime Award
...re them both and I did, but I worried that the two fields mightgradually start floating off in two different directions." He needn't haveworried. To Wagner, his most significant work has been the studies of brainchemistry. "Until recently, philosophers and psychologists had to rely onintrospection ...Abstinence Reduces HIV For High-Risk Women - Even Those Who Relapse - Study Shows
... government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverseas airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, the stock market, andtelecommunications....One-Time Needles Don't Reduce HIV Among Addicts, Study Shows
... government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverseas airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, the stock market, andtelecommunications....New Study Indicates Lightning Can Kill Without Leaving a Mark
... team indicate that in such cases,intense magnetic fields resulting from the lightning may induce fatal elec...is career researching the impact ofelectromagnetic fields on human health, said the results of the research arestill speculative. "But our calculations indic......rtance of cooperation between those working in the fields of ecology andpublic health. Annual Meeting Information Members of the media and freelance writers are invited to attend the EcologicalSociety of America's 1998 Annual Meeting to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, onAugust 2-6, 1998. This year's meet...National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
... and technological advances in the next century in fields including heavy industry, transportation, advanced materials design, and microelectronics. Artificial Implementation of Cerebro-Cerebellar Control of Reaching and Walking (LIS) Award Number: 9873478 Investigators: Jean-Jacques E. Slotine, Gill A...... government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverse asairlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, the stock market, andtelecommunications....Radically New Type Of Surgery Tested On First Patient
... X-ray system also was a challenge becausemagnetic fields destroy standard fluoroscopes. Stereotaxis also ha...ate tumors),gastroenterology, cardiology and other fields of interventional medicine. Forexample, it could be used to reach parts of the heart that have an ab...Magnetic Surgery System Tested Successfully On First Patient
... steer a catheter using externally appliedmagnetic fields acting on the catheter tip, giving us greater navigationalcontrol." Michael Lawson, program manager for intracerebral applications atStereotaxis, explained that a thin, flexible guidewire which is tipped with amagnetic seed slightly larger th...Society Of Actuaries Issues Proceedings From Symposium, 'Managed Care In A Time Of Transition'
...esearch. Society members practice primarily in the fields oflife and health insurance, pensions, employee benefits and investments....MIT Touch Lab Research Explores The Hand
...," Dr. Srinivasan explained. The research spansthe fields of biomechanics (the study of properties such as fingerpad stiffnessand friction), neurophysiology, and psychophysics (a branch of psychology thatrelates physical quantities such as force applied on the fingerpad toperception). Basic researc...Treated Clothing Detoxifies Pesticides
...s. "I had a chance to go to some of the strawberry fields in California," saysUniversity ofCalifornia graduate student Louise L. Ko, "and you'd be surprised to see theharvestersjust wear regular denim jeans and t-shirts," rather than wear the uncomfortableprotective gear. Ko and UC faculty advisor Gang Sun,...Evidence Shows Drug-Psychotherapy Combo Effective For Chronic Depression
...tive. We hope this will lead to more people in the fields ofpsychiatry and psychology being trained in proven treatments and more chronically depressed people receiving thesetreatments so response rates will be higher."...Wake Forest researchers develop new technique to diagnose narrowed heart arteries
...sing coronaryblockages." MRI uses magnetic fields and radio waves, so there is no exposure toionizing radiation. Patients spend less than an hour in a scanner and can thengo home. Cardiac catheterization, a procedure to thread a small, flexible tubecalled a catheter through the blood vessels into th...Information technology is key to decreasing surgery costs, UI researcher finds
...on the order of 35percent." The solution in other fields to increase productivity without increasing costshas been to use information technology, Dexter said. In addition to coming upwith this idea for health care, Dexter and his colleagues from the UI, StanfordUniversity and Duke University have developed...... Magnetic resonance imaging uses powerful magnetic fields toalign the magnetic moments of the nuclei in molecules. Followingan excitation pulse of electromagnetic radiation, the nucleireturn to their original state and give off a signal that can bemeasured and analyzed, showing scientists where the molecule...