University Of Kentucky One Of First To Use New Technique To Treat Atrial Flutter
...heter, causing its tip to heat up. By touching the heated tip to appropriate areas in the heart, doctors could "turn off" any misfiring electrical circuits and stop the atrial flutter. But in some patients -- particularly larger people with large hearts -- the heat failed to reach some deeply buried circu...Standardization Of Revolutionary Cancer Treatment Offers Hope To Patients Nationwide
... procedure. "The abdomen is perfused with a gently heated physiologic solution containingcancer fighting che...igned to evaluate and further improve themethod of heated perfusion of chemotherapy drugs. This follows the FDA'sapproval to initiate study for advanced gast...Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Now Offers Microwave Thermotherapy For Treatment Of Prostate Disease
...ivities. During this procedure, prostate tissue is heated and eliminated,thereby relieving pressure on the urethra and the discomfort and symptomsassociated with the pressure. Although Prostatron® therapy is not for everypatient with BPH, in carefully selected individuals, it can provide significantbene...Margin Width The Key To Control Of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Of The Breast
...breast cancerthat has been the subject of a recent heated debate over treatment. Until 1980,DCIS was a relatively uncommon disease, representing only about 1 percent of allnewly diagnosed cases of breast cancer. During the past two decades - asmammography has become more widely used and technically better -...New, less invasive repair of major artery defect
...defectivesegment of aorta. The stented graft, when heated by normal body temperature,quickly expands to the width of a normal aorta. Positioned inside theballooned-out aneurysm, the graft is anchored to healthy aorta above and belowit. "You must have normal aorta above and below the aneurysm to anc......how moisture levels change over time as they apply heated air. The carpet imaging has provided a few surprises. Forexample, it was found that moisture can flow into cut-pilecarpet through the center of its tufts, even when the carpetcontains a fluorochemical finish. The water then concentratesnear the c...Getting your teeth into superplastic forming
...s inserted into the superplastic forming press and heated to 900 degreesCelsius over a period of 90 minutes. A disk of titanium is then inserted intothe press, clamped above the die and 'blown' onto the die by Argon gas atpressures of up to 600 psi forming a completed superstructure in up to 3 hours. Feedb...Drug trends among American teens
...ice.) Ice comes in chunks or "rocks" which can be heated and the fumes inhaled, much as is done with crack cocaine. Also like crack, it can be highly addictive. The proportion of 12th-graders indicating any use of ice in the prior 12 months fell from 3 percent in 1998 to 1.9 percent in 1999. (The propor...Kidney transplant proposal reduces wait from 24 to 14 months, improves equity for blacks & women
...s of donors and recipients has been the subject of heated debate for the better part of a decade, in large part because it generates inequities. Examining the local transplant agencies coordinated by UNOS, the researchers found that African Americans have longer waiting times until transplantation because ...Hutchinson Center receives $1.2 million from National Science Foundation to study plant genetics
... detailed analysis. The entire PCR product is then heated and cooled, which causes the zipperlike DNA strands to separate and then randomly come back together. Any imperfect pairings indicate an area of genetic disruption, which can be analyzed further to pinpoint the exact genetic mutation. TILLING has sev...Animal study show that heat-sensitive liposome improves chemotherapy delivery to tumors
... co-authored the study. "After it goes through the heated area it seals up, and when it comes around again t...sing this liposome to carry the drug. "Even if we heated normal tissue in addition to the tumor, it doesn't appear from our other work that the liposomes wou......and allow the thermosetting matrix materials to be heated to reduce viscosity -- important for continuous fabrication processes. Patent 6,090,486 issued July 18. McGrath and researchers from Johnson & Johnson Vision Products Inc., Roanoke received a patent for rapid, environmentally safe methods for pre...Cedars-sinai surgery dept. implements innovative surgical training tool to reduce medical errors
...m the old conferences, which were characterized by heated oral discourse. In hospitals across the country, Morbidity and Mortality Conferences often result in tempers flaring and fingers pointing and the lessons are often left at the door, he said. In Cedars-Sinais conferences, we take a systematic look ...Cooking tomatoes boosts disease-fighting power
... value than fresh produce." Tomato samples were heated to 88 degrees Celsius (190.4 degrees Fahrenheit) f...rcent, respectively; and antioxidant levels in the heated tomatoes increased by 28, 34 and 62 percent, respectively. Antioxidants protect the human body from ...Breakthrough! UNC scientists' research promises improved X-ray machines using carbon nanotubes
...s replace traditional metal filaments that must be heated to high temperatures before being subjected to an electric field. The tubes shed electrons easily because, being so small, they are extremely sharp. "We already have taken pictures of human hands and fish that are as good as standard X-rays," Zhou sa...New procedure kills liver tumors without surgery
...at's being treated literally bubbles because it is heated to boiling temperature -- 100 degrees Celsius," said Nelson. "Since heat is concentrated around the tip of the probe, we can generally limit tissue destruction to the region of the tumor without damaging the surrounding tissue." After the heating se...Innovative process reduces energy consumption and improves product quality in the food industry
... ensure food safety, the contents of a can must be heated to a very high temperature (121 C) for a minimum of three minutes. The new process, developed by centre researcher Dr. Michle Marcotte and her team, is designed to replace the current high-temperature method with a two-stage system. The first stage i...How acrylamide might be formed in starch-rich foods
..., an amino acid abundant in cereals and grains, is heated above 100 degrees Centigrade (212 degrees Fahrenheit) with either of two sugars, glucose or 2-deoxyglucose. Now Bruce Ganem, a professor in Cornell University's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has offered a more-detailed chemical exp...Laser technique able to detect developing cavities
...eth. The light, upon penetrating a tooth, slightly heated it and generated infrared radiation that revealed cavities. Higher frequencies worked best to reveal defects near the surface of a tooth, while lower frequencies uncovered problems deep below the enamel. This method of heat-generating laser light is ......d Social Research Council (ESRC), will re-ignite a heated debate about the way the media covered the MMR controversy and the way journalists deal with minority voices within science. While journalists have vigorously defended the amount of space given to Dr Andrew Wakefield's concerns about the MMR vaccine,...