'Revolutionary' treatment for birth defect improves survival of newborns
...'s underdeveloped lungs; * The use of a heart-lung machine called ECMO, short for extracorporeal membraneoxygenation, which about 40 percent of affected infants require to take over thework of their fragile organs. * Delaying corrective surgery by one to five days, allowing more time for sicknewborns to reco...Novel neural net recognizes spoken words better than human listeners
...biomedical engineers have created the world'sfirst machine system that can recognize spoken words better than humans can. Afundamental rethinking of a long-underperforming computer architecture led totheir achievement. The system might soon facilitate voice control of computers and other machines,help the d...Peering into the amazing mind behind those baby blue eyes
...s are starting to believe is the greatest learning machine in theuniverse. The mind behind those bright blue or brown eyes is faster and far moresophisticated than any computer built, say the authors of the new book, "TheScientist in the Crib." Written by the University of Washington husband...How will a vibrating machine sound on Mars? What subtle characteristics ofAfrican music distinguish it from other forms? What is the explanation for the"sound of growing corn" that farmers always hear? These and other questions will be addressed at the 138th Meeting of theAcou...Strain makes for stronger engineered tissues
...y arrangement. The tissues were then tested with a machine that measured the force needed totear them apart. Those that had been subjected to strain as they developed werebetter able to withstand the force. Although the engineered tissues still werenot as strong as natural smooth muscle tissue, the results......revent warpage) can be done in minutes. Putting a machine specifically assigned to add a layer of amorphous diamond into the clean room in an otherwise-silicon fabrication facility is achievable, since diamond is chemically compatible with silicon, the researchers believe. Such production machines may soon ...Studies: New imaging technique improves X-rays of breast tissue
... has a long way to go before they have a practical machine that can be used clinically but the researchers believe they are closing in on a big advance in medicine. "Obviously we can't bring everybody to the world's few synchrotrons for routine mammography, and so we have to make this technology clinically ...'Smart scalpel' detects cancer cells in seconds
...han a $100,000 (or more expensive) flow cytometry machine that may be desktop or benchtop size. The portable laser device has the potential to provide real-time analysis of up to 100,000 cells per second - a rate five times faster than other methods. It does not require - as do typical bench-top cytometers ...UF study shows pumping iron improves strength, independence in frail elderly
...upervision, they worked out on a weight resistance machine three times a week and did aerobic endurance exercises twice a week. The remaining participants, who did not exercise, served as a control group. While few of the people could perform the aerobic exercise, the resistance training led to about a 20 p...Award-winning book looks at responsibility for sick babies in hospitals
...uppliers who failed to keep the baby's life-saving machine in good repair and detected signs of illness in Tiffany before home nurses did. Described in the book "For the Sake of the Children" (The University of Chicago Press), Sue and Will's case illustrates how responsibility, in this case under extreme cir...Chemist uses DNA to trigger an alternative chemotherapy method
... blood or biopsy sample fed into a DNA diagnostics machine that takes the disease-state DNA results and within hours comes up with a tailored drug/catalyst therapy. This treatment will kill the cancerous cells in the body and leave the others unharmed, and it is capable of beating the cancer even as it muta...SU scientist receives patent that could revolutionize medical magnetic resonance imaging
...method results in about 20 liters of gas a day per machine at a cost of about $500 per dose. Honig is continuing to refine the process using the prototype equipment he built in his laboratory, and he is working with Oxford Instruments in England to further develop the prototype. He says applying hyperpo...O.R. model could reduce high death rate among kidney dialysis patients by up to 20%
...es it to curtail patient time on a kidney dialysis machine or turn away new patients; and high costs, particu...hat while a patient's treatment time on a dialysis machine remains fixed, reuse of the patient's dialyzer reduces its efficiency, thus gradually cutting the do...New procedure makes kidney transplant an option for thousands on waiting list
...for four hours at a stretch, patients hook up to a machine that removes waste fluids and regulates the bodys chemical and blood balances. Physicians arent certain what causes patients to have elevated antibody levels that make traditional transplants likely to fail. Many of those with elevated antibody leve...High-tech scan for blocked arteries matches conventional tests in finding root of symptoms
... to tip the balance toward the purchase of an EBCT machine by any medical center, or coverage of the scans by insurers. They note that new diagnostic technologies have to clear a higher hurdle to be accepted, now that established tests are often based on solid evidence of their accuracy. But they hope their ...Expert advises annual lung test for smokers during physical exam
...increasing the availability of a simple spirometry machine in the offices of primary care physicians. These physicians and their nurses take care of the vast majority of people at risk for COPD. Once properly diagnosed through spirometry, COPD can be effectively managed." The two physicians joined other ...... blood is then pumped through an artificial kidney machine containing a filtering system called a dialyzer that cleanses the blood and returns the cleansed blood back to the body. Most people undergoing hemodialysis visit a hospital or dialysis center three times a week for a several hour dialysis session. ...News tips from the care and outcomes meeting
... patients, 274 of them getting surgery without the machine (off-pump), found that although patients receiving off-pump surgery tended to be sicker, they had less post-operation kidney failure and stroke, spent less time in intensive care and were less likely to be readmitted after discharge. Because traditi...Study suggests mechanical forces drive early heart development
...neer sees the heart as a pump, plain and simple, a machine shaped by genetics and complex biomechanical forces. Larry A. Taber, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been probing the forces, stresses and deformations of the heart since the mid-1980s. A major...