Unique Interactive Health Kiosks Distributed In Michigan
...lth and medical specialists, computer programmers, graphic artists and Hollywood Screen Writers Guild writers joined forces on the project. "Studies have shown that, compared to standard mass-produced materials such as pamphlets and booklets," Strecher says, "health messages tailored to an individual's need...Successful Cancer Therapy May Doom Later Treatments To Failure
...ational Institutes of Health. Editors: A two-color graphic that helps illustrate this research is availablefrom Harvard Medical School....ENBREL (Etanercept) Patient And Physician Support Web Site Launched
...ENBREL. Color photography andanimation add to the graphic interest of the site. Enbrel.com also offers two toll-free numbers to provide support to patients whoare considering or are currently taking ENBREL. For questions about insurancecoverage, patients can call the Reimbursement Support Line (1-800-282...UNC Center for AIDS Research database collaboration with SAS also helping patient care
...o be ordered. Another feature of the database is a graphic printout of patients' immune cell count and viral load. These graphs help demonstrate the impact medication is having on the patient's health. The clinical and demographic information collected includes CD4 cell count, HIV RNA blood level and other...Biomedical engineers team with pediatric cardiologists and surgeons to improve Fontan treatment
...uces a more scientific approach using computer and graphic technology to correct heart defects For the first time, computer technology is being used to assist surgeons in correcting single ventricle defects in the most efficient way. Furthermore, this will enable customization of the Fontan repair to s...NIST 'pins' down imaging system for the blind
...tists and engineers at NIST have created a tactile graphic display that brings electronic images to the blind...Braille. According to its designers, the prototype graphic display conveys scanned illustrations, map outlines or other graphical images to the fingertips, and...Drug combination opens clogged arteries faster, keeps them open longer
... The monitor turns this electrical activity into a graphic representation of the heart's beating action, with... monitor is transformed into "mountain-and-valley" graphic plots that display the ECG behavior over time. According to Roe, the higher the mountain peaks, the ...Study finds that children are exposed to too many violent movies
...urveyed. The General's Daughter, which contained a graphic and violent rape scene, was seen by 27 percent of the sample and by 20 percent of fifth graders. Natural Born Killers, portraying young lovers on a killing spree mixed with sex, was seen by 20 percent of the adolescents overall and by 13 percent of f...New model predicts likelihood of prostate cancer prior to biopsy
...l ultrasound (TRUS) data. The nomogram itself is a graphic made up of lines representing individual risk factors marked off to scale and arranged in such a way that a numeric representation of the likelihood of cancer can be easily calculated. For example, a total score of 6.8 corresponds to a 10 percent lik...Forensic radiology makes virtual autopsy a reality
...rtual autopsy is expensive and right now there are graphic limitations in providing full-color information, according to Dr. Thali. Also, virtual autopsy cannot yet be used for a post-mortem angiography, which may reveal important information about the person's cardiovascular system at the time of death. ...Tuberculosis strains stay close to home, say Stanford researchers
...the tuberculosis genetic information into a simple graphic akin to a family tree to illustrate commonalities between the strains. Once the tree was drawn with 100 strains represented, researchers assigned each strain its own color based on the national origin of the infected person. "It was amazing how clear...Teen-rated video games loaded with violence
...ed blood and the video game did not, all portrayed graphic violence involving martial arts and guns. The authors also noted the cross-marketing of R-rated and other mature entertainment to children. The Enter the Matrix game manual contained a $3 rebate toward the purchase of The Matrix DVD. Other T-rated vi...Mount Sinai warns of fake HIV/AIDS notification letter
...produced on faked Mount Sinai letterhead utilizing graphic elements apparently lifted from the hospital's web site, has been received by nearly a dozen or more individuals in New York, Connecticut, California and Washington, D.C. The text is identical to another fake letter, purporting to be from Virginia Ho...NSF, AAAS announce winners of 2004 Visualization contest
... made up of scientists, communications experts and graphic artists will examine and rank all entries. The top 50 entries (10 in each category) with the highest overall scores will be designated semifinalists and will progress to the final phase of judging. In that round, a separate panel of distinguished jud...Federal funds given for regenerative medicine center
...eat deal of gratitude to our patients who provided graphic advocacy for the creation of this center to the Ohio Congressional delegation because of the benefits they have derived from treatment with stem cells." In addition to Drs. Hundert, Horwitz and Gerson, others instrumental in helping to secure the awa......ir attention between instructor, interpreter and a graphic display. Another study, conducted with a team including graduate student Justin Laird and faculty members Mitch Rosen and Ethan Montag, is funded by the Sharp Research Laboratory of America. In this case, Pelz's team is exploring how people view ra...