Digital Speech Analysis Tests Sobriety
...this person is intoxicated,' if we comparethis to his normal, sober speech sample?" To find out, Pisoni and Chin sent Cummings samples of sober andintoxicated speech from four different people, gathered at IndianaUniversity. They include different types of speech, such as monosyllabicwords, tongue twis...Hopkins Researchers Develop Under-The-Skin Implant For Pain Treatment
... should begin within a year, he said. Grossman and his team began developing the pain polymer five years ago as an inexpensive, abuse-resistant way of offering pain management to people in developing nations, where cancer rates are high, but little or no treatment for pain is available. "India produces 8...Discovery Hints At Multitude Of New Targets For Drugs
...edical center. The finding extends earlier work in his laboratory showing that the estrogenreceptor, a distinctly different kind of steroid receptor, also shows similarmulitple modes of interaction with drugs or hormones. "The discovery of such complexity in one receptor type is a phenomenon;th...Study Demonstrates Safety & Effectiveness Of Asthma Drug
...t five medical centers. The work was coordinatedby his team of researchers at the Asthma Clinical Research Network (ACRN)Data Coordinating Center (DCC) based at Hershey's Center for Biostatistics.ACRN is funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). The results of the study were reporte...Fertilization Protein Structure To AID in Leukemia Treatment
...kable similarity to the cyclase protein, Stout and his collaborators think that CD38 molecules also pair up to create an internal cavity. However, unlike cyclase, CD38 has a tail reaching across the cell membrane, providing a means for it to transmit signals to the inside of white blood cells. "By mod...UW, Siemens Unveil New Panoramic Ultrasound Imaging Application Using Programmable Technology
...in Kim, UWprofessor of electrical engineering, and his research team. "The imageprocessor can be programmed for many applications, opening a new chapter inultrasound technology," Yongmin Kim said. The Siemens engineering team, ledby Jin Kim, vice president of research and development, integrated theult...Childhood Sex Abuse Impacts Adult Relationships
...of self and personality organization are shaped by his or her earliest relationships, particularly the relationship with the primary caregiver," explained Feerick, who is from Mt. Kisco, N.Y. Haugaard and Feerick, who expects her Ph.D. in 1998, analyzed questionnaires from 313 undergraduate women at Corn...Duke Study Uses Tiny Temperature Changes To Probe Water-Exclusion At Protein Binding Sites
...e, he added in an interview. Toone, who made his deductions using a supersensitive instrument thatc...llionths of a degree temperature changes, prepared his findingsfor presentation at the American Chemical Society's national meeting. Toone's research......e up on William Hines,his kidney tumor is gone and his life is back to normal. Hines is one of seven patients to undergo an experimental procedure that has brought magnetic resonance imaging into the operating room. Hines, mayor of North Canton, Ohio, took part in a Phase I clinical trail being c...Kids Near Airports Don't Read As Well
...y acquiring speech recognition skills." Evans and his collaborator, Lorraine Maxwell, both environmental psychologists, are in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell. Evans and Maxwell compared children in a noisy school (in the flight path of a Ne...Researchers Gain Insights Into Drugs Used For Manic-Depression
... notproduce the same toxicity." Hokin and his team have studied lithium for years in an effort tounderstand how it could control depression and mania at the same time. Their earlier research revealed that lithium increases release ofthe neurotransmitter glutamate, in turn activating a r...Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
... works to boost antibody production, Hem says that his study may spur new interest into the mechanism behind this reaction. "The study also explains why aluminum hydroxide adjuvants have such a good safety record," Hem says. "The aluminum hydroxide dissolves in the interstitial fluid and is excreted from...TB Prophylaxis Unnecessary In HIV-Infected People With Anergy, Study Suggests
...ing Group considered thefindings of Dr. Gordin and his colleagues in developing the guidelines, whichwere published in the June 27, 1997 issue of Morbidity and Mortality WeeklyReport. "The low rates of TB in both the treatment and placebo groups (three cases outof 260 patients, and six cases out of 257 p...Nasal Spray Flu Vaccine By U-M Researcher Is 93% Effective
...he vaccine since 1973. Maassab, now age 70, began his work on a liveflu vaccine at U-M in 1966. ...des of dedication and innovation by Dr.Maassab and his research team. The vaccine is likely to have a major impact onU.S. public health in the future." ..."Super Aspirin" Holds Long-Term Benefits For Some Patients Who Undergo Balloon Angioplasty
... should receive this "super aspirin." In his editorial, Dr. Fischman notes that the multicenter study, which is a three-year follow-up to an initial study of ReoPro™, led by Eric J. Topol, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, shows that the benefits of ReoPro™ a...3D Ultrasound Gives Better View Of Brain's Arteries
... as MRI and CT. In this study, Delcker and his two colleagues used a prototype magneticsensor wor...nscranial ultrasound from 20patients, Delcker and his colleagues found two things: First, identification of intracranial arteries significantly im...Ultrasound Helps Pediatric Heart Surgeons After Open Heart Surgery
...'s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in 1996 to continue his clinicalinvestigations of brain function during cardiac surgery in children. His colleagues in the study include Drs. Garry Cornel, chief of theDivision of Cardiovascular Surgery, Lloyd Semelhago, William Splinter, NihalWeerasena, and Lothar ...Scientists Track Effectiveness Of Migraine Drugs With Ultrasound
...s not have a headache. Chung will present his findings August 15th at the meeting of InternationalNeurosonology '97 sponsored by the World Federation of Neurology and the BowmanGray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University. Chung monitored about 60 migraine patients in the ...Duke Obtains FDA Designation For Pompe Disease Therapy
...uilding our new Children's Hospital. "I hope that his efforts and ours converge in the near future andthat we will be able to provide enzyme replacement for Pompe disease asone of the advanced therapies we offer in our new outpatient children'sfacility in the near future."......ngs of the NationalAcademy ofSciences, Talalay and his coworkers describe their successful efforts to buildon their 1992discovery of sulforaphane's chemoprotective properties. Work described in thestudy is thesubject of issued and pending patents. A systematic search for dietary sources of compou...