3D Ultrasound Gives Better View Of Brain's Arteries
...contrast agent. Second, with the 3D images generated by the prototype workstation, theresearchers were able to make follow-up measurements that were more accuratethan measurements made on 2D images. According to Delcker, the 3D reconstructions yielded more precisereference points within the cer...Are Deprived Areas A Greater Drain On Out Of Hours Workload?
... highly deprived areas close to the A&E department generated high levels of work for both general practice and A&E services, with no evidence of one service substituting for the other. Carlisle et al conclude that those involved in changing out of hours services should take into account the wide variations in...Tighter Chemical Binding = Better Meds
...re of a drugbound to its protein target -- usually generated through a process calledX-ray crystallography -- then modifies the compound and computes how thechanges affect the drug's binding ability. The 3-D structures of hundredsof key human proteins have been solved in recent years, many of them byYale scie...Radio Frequencies Used To Kill Inoperable Liver Tumors At Penn's Cancer Center
...acle-like extensions. The heat--similar to what is generated by a microwave oven--kills the tumor. Once all the tumor cellsare dead, the body absorbs this tissue over time and no resectionof the tumor is needed. In a recently approved protocol, Penn's cancer specialists are studying the effectiveness o...New Treatment Targets Most Malignant Brain Tumors
...yclotron beam, the bismuth-coated plateefficiently generated large amounts of the astatine isotope, which could berapidly isolated. "We get a yield about 10 times higher than with conventional methods,"Zalutsky said. "And now can produce enough Astatine-211 to treat severalpatients in just a few hours.......tre, Institute forMammalian Genetics in Neuherberg generated a stress hormone receptor-deficientmouse exhibiting a blunted stress response and reduced anxiety. This finding,published in Nature Genetics, vol. 19, June 1998, may provide new possibilitiesof treating depression and anxiety. The hypothalamus, locat...Magnetic Hearing Aid Could Open New "Window" For Hearing Impaired
...of combining the natural sound patterns with those generated by themagnetic hearing device. In this way, the sound waves from the device amplifythe desired sound. To reduce background noise, however, the device simply generates a sound patternthat mirrors the pattern of the undesirable sound. In this case,...Microwaves May Provide Early Detection Of Breast Cancer
.... In the case of microwaves, a tumor's response is generated by itsentire cross section. "A conventional X-ray mammogram is literally a shadowgram," Taflove explained."As X-rays pass through the compressed breast, shadows appear on the X-ray film.The shadows represent the projection of a complex three-dimensi......dents. The hospitalist model, said Showstack, has generated controversy. Some researchsuggests that the model is associated with lower costs and with comparable orbetter patient outcomes. Concerns have been expressed, however that patientswill be dissatisfied with hospital care because of lack of physician ...Help On The Way For Victims Of Paralysis
...d nerves under the skin, where theyrecover signals generated by skin pressure and other sensory receptors. Theythen send electrical impulses to a control unit that stimulates other cuffsimplanted around the motor nerves to the muscles. This allows movement. "This technology has reached a point where we are get...Canada's Most Powerful Supercomputer Now At Sick Kids
...,considering the vast amounts of information being generated by research programssuch as the Human Genome Project, the international scientific effort to decodethe complete genetic material of humans." Dr. Cuticchia estimates that in this year alone, the world's researchers willproduce more scientific data in ...Fifteenth Anniversary Of The Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study
...past 15 years. More than 600 articles have been generated from the MACSresearch ranging from the role of CD4 lymphocyte counts and viral load inpredicting AIDS, to average incubation time, to the genetics of AIDS - why somepeople handle the virus so much better than others. Over the years the MACS hasprovi...MIT Touch Lab Research Explores The Hand
...re that allows us to touch and feelvirtual objects generated by a computer. Introducing MIT's Touch Lab. In addition to exploring the basic sciencebehind the hand, the scientists there are applying their results to high-techsystems like virtual reality for surgical simulations in which the user can"see...Chemists Discover That Aerosol Clusters Play Larger Role In Generation Of Air Pollution
...lly in the upper atmospherethat makes certain ones generated at ground level harmful," said James F.Garvey, Ph.... research has focused on which compounds are being generated in theupper atmosphere, relatively little work has examined how they are generated. Researchers gene...Future Chlamydia Screening Should Take Account Of Possible Disadvantages For Women
...can and Hart also suggest that social changes have generated a popular belief in men and women that it is women who bear sole responsibility for contraception and avoidance of pregnancy. They say that the strategy of involving men peripherally in a chlamydia screening programme (only as contacts of infected w...New Vaccine Provides Protection From HIV In Monkeys
...mune response, adding to the power of the response generated by the insertedDNA. 3) purified protein vaccines - proteins for the viral envelope areproduced in culture, outside the body, and are then injected. In testing combinations of these three subunit approache......c transplant practices," saidDr. Jordan. "The data generated from our lab and clinical programs have alreadyshown that this treatment has significant promise for many patients, both adultand pediatric."...False recall in older adults and Alzheimer's linked to attention, not memory, breakdown
...e memory process is knowingthat memories are never generated as 100 percent accurate, vivid snapshots ofpast events and experiences, rather they are constructed from various tidbits ofrelated information that the mind is able to retrieve and assimilate. Memories of events, experiences and other knowledge-based...Using spatial illusion to learn how the brain processes sound
...art of the brain that processes electrical signals generated inthe inner ear," Middlebrooks said. "We're trying to break the code---tounderstand the rules the brain uses to translate this neural activity into whatwe hear as sound." In a paper published in the June 17 issue of Nature, U-M scientists Middlebroo...