US syphilis epidemics not driven by increases in unsafe sex say researchers
...pulation immunity highlights the need to carefully interpret data from routine surveillance studies, where changes in the rate of new infections may not always be attributable to changes in behaviour or the environment....Views from space help oil prospectors see deep underground
...strongly in thermal energy, so much so that we can interpret its presence indirectly from well below a half a metre. "Basalt is a massive reflector, functioning like a shield between the surface and the hydrocarbon reservoirs. We can't work on surface basalt the baseplate simply jumps back but t...Association publishes blueprint to strengthen stroke care from prevention through recovery
...gists and neurologists who can image the brain and interpret the results. Telemedicine can make that happen. "Treating patients early with tPA reduces disability, which saves money. A cost-benefit analysis suggests that you save $4,000 for every patient treated with tPA," Schwamm said. Arthur Pancioli, M.D....Early supported discharge services can reduce long term dependency for stroke patients
...ferent causes. Dr Meijer concludes: "To clinically interpret Langhorne and colleagues' latest results, admission to ESD services will be the optimum choice for patients who no longer need medical and nursing treatment that only a hospital can provide; have moderate stroke severity; can return home because they...Listening to fear: Helping kids cope, from nightmares to the nightly news
...terpretations, and, finally, they need to learn to interpret the "behavioral language of fear" that children employ more often than words. Marans guides parents to better understand the emotional landscape of childhood fears; learn to decode behaviors that may tell them more than what their children are saying...Falling in love in three minutes or less
... doctorate in psychology at the time, to study and interpret the data. The researchers caution that speed dating is not necessarily typical of how people usually interact. Their findings might or might not characterize long-term dating relationships. Their findings will be presented in an upcoming issue...Researcher explores ways to make hypnosis a more effective therapeutic technique
... Lynn said. Researchers also teach subjects how to interpret hypnotic suggestions, so that a misunderstanding won't lead to an inappropriate response. Two years into the three-year project, the research indicates that instruction does indeed help people respond better to hypnotic suggestions. By speaking with ...Scientific evidence for diets: don't believe everything you read
...e their subjects, making them almost impossible to interpret accurately. In the USA, 97 million adults are overweight or obese. Extensive studies on the role of diet, exercise and genes are being carried out in a general effort to better understand and prevent obesity. The researchers analysed 231 articles r...Fewer false alarms when mammographers have greater experience screening healthy breasts
...reening, physicians who focus on screening and who interpret 2,500-4,000 mammograms annually have 50 percent fewer false-positive diagnoses while detecting approximately one less cancer per 2,500 mammograms," the authors wrote. Smith Bindman added, "The variation we found was dramatic. We recommend explicit di...Acting techniques may help doctors empathize with their patients
...ow the doctor to display behaviors the patient can interpret as empathic. The authors contend that deep acting is preferred because it makes doctors more effective healers. They also believe doctors have greater professional satisfaction and less professional burnout when they practice deep acting, but may ha...Increasing physician volume requirement could improve mammogram accuracy, study concludes
...raphy Quality Standards Act requires physicians to interpret at least 960 mammograms over a 2-year period--abou...ional Health Service Breast Screening Program must interpret 10 times that amount. However, the few studies that have evaluated the relationship between annual v...Emotional memory study reveals evidence for a self-reinforcing loop
...l of an emotional memory. Said Dolcos, "One way to interpret our result is that emotion can trigger recollection, and vice versa. The synchronicity between activity in the amygdala and hippocampus could go either way. The emotion enhances recollection, but at the same time by recollecting those events, you w...Mechanism of RNA recoding: New twists in brain protein production
...s of Health, will "greatly increase our ability to interpret the information encoded in the genome." Researchers still don't know why editing occurs, but posit that organisms use it to increase protein variety. RNA recoding lets cells generate an array of proteins from a single DNA sequence, each with a sligh...Tracking trends in cochlear implant complications using a federal database
...llowing some deaf individuals to learn to hear and interpret sounds and speech) are popular and effective therapy, they remain expensive and require an extensive program of accompanying therapy, according to background information in the article. The researchers suggest that to insure the best outcome from the...Specific test key to determine whether or not allergy symptoms are really allergy-related
...ires extensive training and experience to properly interpret the results, which family physicians may not have. "The specific-IgE test requires the time it takes to draw a vial of blood," Szeinbach said. "The results can tell a physician whether or not her patient truly has an allergy. If so, she can then send...Can you read my mind? W.M. Keck Foundation funds innovative brain research at Carnegie Mellon
...hool of Computer Science. Using computer models to interpret the results of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) brain scans, the researchers plan to develop a computational theory that describes the changes in brain activity over time during language comprehension and makes predictions about the subpr...