New Drug For Parkinson's Disease Proves Effective, Study Finds
...peutics, where physicians aretrained to design and interpret studies of potential newtreatments to neurodegenerative diseases....Ultrasound Helps Pediatric Heart Surgeons After Open Heart Surgery
...sive and requires the presence of acardiologist to interpret the echocardiogram during surgery. The echocardiogram has additional risks not present with a non-invasivemethod like the transcranial Doppler. "We have been able to integrate transcranial Doppler with other types ofmeasurements,"...MIT Solution To Math Problem Could Lead To Better Dental Implants, More Resistance To Missiles
...dmaterials. "There was no [mathematical] theory to interpret the measurementsfrom such indentation instruments ...es aflow chart of how to use the microindentor and interpret its readings. "We tookout the equations so someone without a mathematical or engineering backgroundc...New Math, High-Tech Imaging Solving Old Riddle: How Does The Brain Operate When We Think?
...able for eight years, but no one knewexactly howto interpret changes in the magnetic signals caused by changes in brainactivity," says Peter C.van Zijl, Ph.D., professor of radiology. The team's work, which appears in the February 1998 issue of NatureMedicine, wassupported by the National Institutes of ...Research Offers New Tool In Fight Against Prostate Cancer
...pinions differ on its validity and precisely howto interpret test results. The U-M researchers found that patients whose PSA levels declined at least 50percent after eight weeks of chemotherapy survived for 91 weeks (median),compared with 38 weeks for those whose PSA level did not decline 50 percent. The study...Drug Reduces Heart Attack, Death Rates In Patients With Unstable Angina
... Such differences in care make it harder to interpret the results, theresearchers say, but the results are more applicable to a wider number ofpatients. A smaller, tightly controlled study provides clearer data, but thefindings cannot be generalized to large and diverse populations. "Our trial ...Managed-Care Incentives Should Be Disclosed, Physician Says
...s, could play an importantrole in helping patients interpret information about incentives. However, theseconsumer groups currently do not have access to enough information aboutincentives to help patients determine whether a specific incentive is likely topose a significant problem. The authors recommend that...Nurse Practitioners Reducing Costs, Expanding Care
...njuries. They can prescribe medications, order and interpret lab tests andX-rays, and counsel and educate their patients. Besides providing a lower-cost alternative to seeing a doctor, nursepractitioners can benefit patients in other ways as well. "For the most part, a physician's income -- particularl...'Motion Blindness,' Not Just Poor Memory, Causes Alzheimer's Patients To Lose Their Way
...itute, Duffy decided to test patients' abilitiesto interpret the "optic flow field," the scientific term for th...catedprocessing hub that is home to our ability to interpret motion.While both areas are ultimately damaged, in the early stages thedisease usually seems to affe...Wake Up To Stroke -- Night Strokes Linked To Long Delays In Care
... recognize the symptoms ofstroke, to appropriately interpret the symptoms as a stroke and to call 911immediately when they occur." Co-authors are Dexter Morris, M.D., Ph.D., Kelly Evenson, Ph.D., Jeffrey Valleeand Kristie Schmidt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and SuzanneCook, Ph.D., GlaxoWellcome...Adolescents And Risk-Taking: A 'Very Likely' Danger May Not Mean The Same To A Teen As To An Adult
..., adolescents and even adults don't understand and interpret theseterms as we would expect - not even terms lik...h a "small chance" of side-effects, the parent may interpret that probabilityas 1 out of 10 while the child may envision it much more fearfully - as perhaps7 out...Is handwriting truly individual? UB computer scientists are finding out
...arenow used by the U.S. Postal Service to read and interpret up to 80 percent ofall handwritten addresses on envelopes. CEDAR researchers today continue torefine and improve the software for the USPS, as well as for Australia Post,which also has adopted the CEDAR system. That expertise attracted the at...False recall in older adults and Alzheimer's linked to attention, not memory, breakdown
...reakdownscan indeed provide a coherent famework to interpret both the attentionbreakdowns and the memory breakdowns that occur in Alzheimer's disease," Balotasaid. "It is quite possible that the apparent memory loss in Alzheimer's diseaseis in fact a breakdown in attention, as opposed to a breakdown in memory,...PSA testing alone cannot fully explain drop in deaths from prostate cancer
...he only cause. "Our results suggest that we should interpret the population trends withcaution," says Etzioni, an associate member of the Center's Public HealthSciences Division. "The average man on the street should not read too much intothe declining mortality numbers. What we're seeing is probably not all d...UMass researchers teaching computers to interpret MRIs
...edical Center, is trying to teach computersto help interpret magnetic resonance images (MRIs) to determine how well strokepatients are responding to treatment. More than 500,000 Americans suffer strokes each year, according to A.Bernard Pleet M.D., and chairman of the division of neurology at Baystate...Hospitalists should work with patients' primary care physicians, according to UCSF researchers
...alists may also face situations in which they must interpret patients'preferences for end of life care. Hospitalists may not know whether a patientwants to be resuscitated or receive aggressive treatments -- details patientsoften discuss with their primary care physician, according to the researchers. Althou...Implanted defibrillators and anti-theft systems appear safe under normal circumstances
...ing carried out of a store. The defibrillator can interpret theelectronic beam as a rapid heartbeat for which the defibrillator is programmedto deliver a shock. Douglas P. Zipes, M.D., the study's lead author, says, "There is absolutely nodanger from a slow stroll through the gates, even if it takes 10 or ...Return to play not determined by the numbers
...he tests, it takes acompetent neuropsychologist to interpret the test scores. "Some tests have practice effects as well," says Echemendia. "Each timean athlete takes the test, they naturally become better at it, skewing anycomparison to the baseline test." One of the biggest problems is determ...Cautious evidence of third generation pill link to increase in thromboembolism
... women in recent years. Mellemkjr et al cautiously interpret this as support for the hypothesis that third generation oral contraceptives increase the risk of venous thromboembolism to a greater extent than second generation oral contraceptives. They say that the increase in admissions, although small, could ......tivation during a language task that asked them to interpret the sounds ofwords, there was no difference in the two groups during the musical tone test.This means the difference between the dyslexics and the normal children relatesto auditory language and not to nonlinguistic auditory function, according toRic...