Fred Hutchinson oversees two grants of nearly $8 million to develop blood test for breast cancer
...success of such a screening tool is the ability to interpret the results in a statistically meaningful way, taking into account the woman's own personal biomarker behavior, including how these levels may naturally fluctuate over time, instead of a "one-size-fits-all" approach to screening. Leading this effort ...Cocaine-exposed children subject to stereotyping
...ho was not, according to new research. "Adults may interpret normal infant or child behavior as abnormal if adults have preconceived negative beliefs about the consequences of prenatal drug exposure," says lead author Ruth Rose-Jacobs, Sc.D., of Boston University School of Medicine. Recent research suggests th...Penn State College of Medicine awarded $6.9 million to create clearer images of body's interior
... the image. This limits a radiologist's ability to interpret the image and reach a diagnosis." "This research will be used to develop artifact-correction techniques for high-speed functional MRI and distortion-free high field MRI of human, animal and cellular anatomy," Mosher said. This project reli...Rutgers researcher: Brains in dyslexic children can be 'rewired' to improve reading skills
...rs, was designed to help them learn to process and interpret the very rapid sequence of sounds within words and sentences by exaggerating them and slowing them down. "These are the building blocks you have to have in place before you can learn to read," Tallal said. "I think Fast ForWord is building the scaffo...Laser measurements reveal biological basis of distance perception
...ess retinal information statistically to correctly interpret a visual world that can't be known directly. In the "Nature Neuroscience" paper, Yang and Purves described how they used a laser range-finder -- which scans a scene and automatically records data about the distance to each of millions of point in a ...Women prefer GPs to the Internet when trying to find out about HRT
... insufficient 'information literacy' to manage and interpret what they find this is especially the case when trying to navigate the world wide web Those that successfully manage information and come to form a view about preferred treatment approaches often find their preferences dismissed or ridiculed by t...Childhood abuse related to alcoholism in Native Americans
...problems. "The women's language finding is hard to interpret because with our data, we can't say which came first, alcohol problems or language skills. It could be that the language facility was learned in tribal sobriety programs and was not a precursor to alcoholism," Koss says. Based on their findings, the ...No need to change post-operative treatment for lung cancer, says clinical scientist
...bsequent research. Furthermore, it is important to interpret trial results, not just in terms of 'p values' but in terms of the confidence intervals which in the IALT trial fall within the range of all the other negative trials."...Nanoneurosurgery, search for E-T life, bioscan technology and home holograms at frontiers of optics
... well-known signal. As a result, they know how to interpret the remote device's measurements. So far, the researchers have experimentally confirmed their results on instruments located a not-so-remote two meters from the entangled photon source, but the tests show that longer distance tests are feasible in pr...Contrast mammography reveals hard-to-find cancers
...resonance imaging (MRI) in evaluating difficult to interpret mammograms or for screening women who have an elevated risk for breast cancer," Dr. Lewin said. "This technique may also be useful for examining breasts of women who have already been diagnosed with one cancer to identify potential undetected malign...HFES Annual Meeting papers feature work on critical health and safety issues
...th excessive data, making it difficult for crew to interpret the information. This display is being updated as part of the Cockpit Avionics Upgrade at NASA Johnson Space Center. The upgraded version has an easier-to-decipher layout with multiple text fields that improve functionality by pinpointing and central...Mild depression breeds prolonged inflammation in caregivers
...rogate for other pathogens and the public shouldnt interpret these results as reasons to avoid the vaccinations, Kiecolt-Glaser said. These findings provide a good reason why people should definitely get a flu shot no matter what, she said. Earlier studies showed that if you are depressed, then you are more li...AAPA survey shows physician assistants increasingly employed in medical practices
...cal exams, diagnose and treat illnesses, order and interpret tests, counsel on preventive health care, assist in surgery, and prescribe medications. The 2003 AAPA Census Report found that 36.5 percent of respondents reported that a hospital was their primary work setting (a slight decrease from last year's re...What you should know about statistics
...lem when they need to read statistical results and interpret them for their own lives, said Utts. In a recent paper published in the journal American Statistician, Utts describes seven common ways that statistics are misinterpreted, in news reports and elsewhere. The most insidious mistake, she said, is confus...US women endure twice the surgical biopsies as British for same cancer detection rate
...to read at least 5000. On average, UK radiologists interpret 5-7 times more mammograms than their US counterparts....Evidence that neurons prune only 'twigs' to rewire themselves
...e enough so that the basic things we need to do to interpret the world remain consistent. And the other is to continually adapt to the changing environment, which places a high premium on the ability to alter neural circuitry." The brain is known to undergo large-scale wiring during embryonic development after...Brain maps perceptions, not reality
...usions are not unusual or strange--they are how we interpret the world," Roe said. "We think we know what's out there in the physical world, but it's all interpreted by our brains. Everything we sense is an illusion to a degree."...Better brain imaging helps surgeons avoid damage to language functions
...ileptic patients and that fMRI may be used to help interpret laterality results provided by the Wada procedure." Other members of research team and study co-authors include Monica V. Baciu, research associate in the department of radiology; Richard D. Wetzel, professor of psychiatry, neurology and neurologica...Caregivers for patients with dementia need more support before patient dies, less after
...sess how we support family caregivers." To further interpret their findings, Dr. Schulz and his colleagues examined the changes in the depressive symptoms of 180 caregivers in their research group whose relatives were institutionalized. "Our results were further strengthened when we found that caregivers of pa...Increasing number of physician assistants handle more than 190 million patient visits in 2003
...cal exams, diagnose and treat illnesses, order and interpret tests, counsel on preventive health care, assist in surgery, and prescribe medications....