'Smart scalpel' detects cancer cells in seconds
...e results than flow cell cytometers - the standard instrument used to determine the presence of cancer cells obtained from an incision. Flow cell cytometers require cells to be stained with a dye in order to examine them. This lengthy process may take hours to alter the cells, and is of little immediate help to...Robotics go where no surgeon has gone before
... to the operating room table. These arms hold the instrument tips that replicate the precise maneuvers of the surgeon. "The computer takes your motion and makes it very, very smooth," Damiano explains. "Then it takes this digitized motion and uses it to drive the robotic arms." The camera assembly is contr.......uk ) hashelped to reconstruct a long-lost Celtic instrument known as a carnyx. Somescholars speculate that the Celts may have used the loud and surprising soundsof the carnyx approximately 2,000 years ago in attempts to scare off hostileRoman troops (4pAA3). -- Sensing Aircraft Ice with "Love Waves." Vasu...New biomarker for cervical cancer
...que where the cervix is examined with a magnifying instrument and biopsiesof suspicious lesions are taken to rule-out cancer. He notes that most biopsydiangoses from women with minimally abnormal Pap smears do not requiretreatment. "Colposcopy is both expensive -- $200 to $500 per patient -- andinvasiv...OSU Medical Center uses robotic heart surgery technique
...e. "This type of surgical instrument is going to be with us for years to come and it's very exciting to take a leadership role in its design and application," he said. Ohio State and the University of Leipzig in......re the molecules arelocated. The Georgia Tech MRI instrument is much smaller than ahospital machine designed for imaging the human body. Beckhamand his collaborators study a sample about one inch in diameter,imaging it repeatedly to see how moisture levels change over time as they apply heated air. The carpe...Alcohol researchers prove brief intervention successful in older problem drinkers
...ositiveresponses to the CAGE, a standard screening instrument for problem drinking. Of 496 patients willing to participate, 396 completed face-to-face interviews ina physician's office. The interviews gathered additional information on alcoholuse, medications, injuries, depressive symptoms, and other medical a......t decline. Similarly, the dressing item on the FIM instrument indicated there was nosignificant decline for the treatment group, but the control group declined morethan one point." A one-point decline on the FIM scale, in this case from 5.29 to 4.09,represents a change in the amount of care required, Ma...Irritable Bowel Syndrome The Focus Of Three UNC-CH Reports At Digestive Diseases Conference
...nosed with irritable bowel syndrome, IBS. The new instrument quantifies a person's QOL and should offer a clear...rossman says."The IBS-QOL is now a fully validated instrument on the quality of life, onethat contains items that address patients' needs - such as the need to be...The Whole Truth From Five-Year-Olds
...eles psychologist Karen J. Saywitz to develop anew instrument to help children meet the two basicrequirements of demonstrating competency to take acourtroom oath: knowing the difference between thetruth and a lie and understanding the importanceof swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth. Based on simple pic...MIT Touch Lab Research Explores The Hand
...d by another 20 muscles in the forearm.Indeed, the instrument is so complex that only recently have engineers de...ring and Computer Science, and Dr. Srinivasan, the instrument could alsobe applied to the detection of skin cancer. "Sunburn and skin cancer result inchanges in t...Future Workers Will Receive MSAs
...lar with workers, and they provide a moreeffective instrument for curbing health spending because of the built-inincentives for individuals to become more prudent health care purchasers," saysBattistella. MSAs look so promising that Medicare recipients will be able to choose thembeginning next year. "The beau...Some CFS Patients Benefit From Low-Dose Steroid, But Side Effects Too Risky
... treatmentperiod. Based on the primary self-rating instrument used, the Wellness scale, 54.3percent of placebo recipients and 66.7 percent of those who received treatmentjudged their symptoms as improved. The hydrocortisone recipients experiencedsignificantly greater average improvement (6.3 vs. 1.7 points on ......hing the MRI video monitor, doctors can adjust the instrument to reach all parts of the malignancy while avoiding healthy tissue. As the physicians work, they can actually see the tumor die. Hines' previous surgeries had sidelined him for weeks at a time. After repeated trips to the operating room, doc...Duke Study Uses Tiny Temperature Changes To Probe Water-Exclusion At Protein Binding Sites
...ne, who made his deductions using a supersensitive instrument thatcan measure 1 millionths of a degree temperatu...ation of the solvent isotope effect. Using a instrument known as a "microcalorimeter," Toone andhis students were able to measure temperature differences as...