Read my lips: UCL launches centre for human communication
...where the face 'listens' to speech coming down the line and repeats it. This enables a non-deaf person to use their normal telephone to ring a deaf person, who lip-reads the talking face. The NumberTalk project is investigating how children with language difficulties learn mathematics, in particular skill...New data demonstrates that Benicar(R) and Benicar HCT (TM) achieve JNC 7 blood pressure goals
...ies and Its Products Forest Laboratories' growing line of products includes: Lexapro an SSRI antidepressant indicated for the initial and maintenance treatment of major depressive disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Celexa, an antidepressant; Namenda, an N-methyl D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antago...Researchers explore gene treatment to obliterate HIV before it does damage
... said, "Experiments of this type fall perfectly in line with Project Inform's agenda to refocus researchers toward a cure for HIV rather than indefinite treatment with costly antiviral drugs that consistently lead to drug resistance and long-term toxicities." Martin Delaney, founding director of Project I...Triple-contrast CT depicts internal injury from gunshot and stab wounds
...s been a challenge to trauma surgeons. "A straight line cannot be drawn between a bullet entry site and resting site," Dr. Shanmuganathan said. "It is also hard to gauge how far a bullet can travel inside a body." The researchers studied 200 patients, including 169 men and 31 women with penetrating tors...When it comes to cancer prognosis, it's not just the tumor that matters
...chances of survival, like lung cancer. "The bottom line is that comorbidity data provides critical additional information for determining a patient's prognosis," Piccirillo says. He believes recording comorbidities will have two key benefits. First, it will improve the accuracy of computer-based programs...OHSU vaccine and gene therapy institute receives $3.5 million for AIDS vaccine research
...IV immune response that would, in effect, hold the line against HIV." The OHSU researchers are hoping to develop a viral vector based on cytomegalovirus (CMV). It's believed that approximately 70 percent to 90 percent of the population currently is infected with CMV, a virus that causes little to no effec...Cells of larynx may have significant immune functions
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. The cells that line the larynx or voice box have strategic immune functions that could have a major impact on diseases and conditions such as cancer and asthma, according to a British researcher who spoke today at an international conference here. Martin Birchall, M.D.,...Zinc therapy accelerates recovery from pneumonia
...dren die from pneumonia each year and where second line antibiotics may not be available," said senior investigator, Robert Black, MD, professor and chair of the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health....Researchers identify cancer-causing gene involved in aggressive leukemia, lymphoma
...e of the mice was successfully bred to establish a line of genetically engineered mice, each of which also developed lymphoid malignancies. In most cases, lymphoma was found in the animals' thymus, spleen, bone marrow, lymph nodes and peripheral blood, all of which is consistent with a leukemia-like disea...Computer system makes 'chain' of health care stronger, safer
...ives of all the important stakeholders all fall in line those who pay the bills, the hospital administration, clinicians in and out of the hospital, and the patients themselves," says Mark Fendrick, M.D., a professor of internal medicine and health management & policy who helped champion the system durin...Psychological factors may be root of back pain, say Stanford researchers
...shed in the May 15 issue of Spine. "But the bottom line is that it didn't predict who would go on to develop back pain." Carragee and colleagues also found that the invasive discography procedure itself does not injure the spinal disc enough to cause back pain. Carragee and his team examined 46 discograph...New research in atrial fibrillation
...n animal models of chronic disease and would be in line for clinical trials in perhaps three to five years," said Dr. Donahue. "In another ongoing investigation in our lab we are transferring a gene for a mutant potassium channel to the atria to eliminate the ability of the atria to fibrillate," said Dr. ...Cardiac complications from smallpox vaccination higher than expected among military personnel
...f non-cardiac complications have been very low, in line with the rates of complications we saw historically, when children were routinely vaccinated for smallpox," said Dimitri C. Cassimatis, M.D., first author of the review and cardiology fellow at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. "The...Novel findings about neovessel formation
... found in the cell walls of endothelial cells that line the lumenal side of blood vessels. The part of the tissue factor that faces the cell exterior sends signals, in combination with a certain so-called coagulation factor, to activate blood vessel cells to generate new vessel structures. The part of t...Researchers open new line of attack on tuberculosis
...g. Nonetheless, this discovery opensup a whole new line of attack against TB and leprosy. "Because weunderstand the mechanism better, we can design inhibitorsspecific to this enzyme." In the paper, Kiessling acknowledges support from an NSF YoungInvestigator award. "It is gratifying to see that seminal f...Rx pain medicines hard to find in pharmacies serving minority neighborhoods
...ine this issue further," she explains. "The bottom line is, if a pharmacy doesn't stock a certain medication, a person in pain may end up in a situation where their physician will prescribe pain medication, but the patient can't get the prescription filled," Green concludes. "Given the incredible impact o...Drug for depression helps irritable bowel syndrome, according to Pittsburgh study
... in controlled studies. SSRIs are considered first line treatments in psychiatric illnesses such as major depression and generalized anxiety disorder, which are found in 50 to 90 percent of patients with IBS, according to Dr. Arnold, who is a gastroenterologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Cent...Chemical brain scans may help reassure brain tumor patients
... scans, made using the same MRI equipment, produce line graphs with peaks that correspond to the levels of certain chemicals in various areas around the tumor. The spikes on the graphs reveal the relative concentrations of chemicals that are produced or used up by growing cancers or dying cells. Dependin...Hidden cost of depression in seniors: $9 billion in care from spouses, children
...ad one to three symptoms. These proportions are in line with previous estimates of depression's incidence among older people; about 1 to 5 percent are thought to have serious, major depression, while another 7 to 23 percent may have mild depression. The survey showed that 38 percent of seniors who had man......chology. The insulin pump requires inserting a new line every two to three days. It then delivers a steady stream of insulin, which can be increased before meals to maintain an appropriate blood glucose level. With injection therapy, parents must give their child an insulin shot at least three times a day...