Cogtest plc seals deal with Lundbeck: Cogtest battery for use in multinational schizophrenia trial
...uality of life in schizophrenia. Cognition is what makes us human. It refers to our mental processes: the process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment. Our cognitive processes allow us to carry out normal daily activities as well as allowing us to recall memo...$5 million grant awarded to U.VA health system targets leukemia drug development, creates new jobs
...is year, mostly in older adults. However, leukemia makes up about 30 percent of all cancers in children. The relative five-year survival rate for people with leukemia has more than tripled in recent decades to 46 percent. Still, according to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, about 23,300 people are expect...Coast-mapping satellites will follow the tides
... Coastal changes occur very rapidly but satellites makes possible the easy updating of charts in a way that ships and aircraft cannot." To qualify the COASTCHART system the plan is to map 6000 km of West African coastline covering 15 countries extending from Senegal to the Republic of Congo. ESA is partne...Optics meeting tips: Internal fingerprints, no cell left behind, 3-D reality
...ky vein image back onto the patient's wrist. This makes it appear as if the veins were lying right on top, making it easy for a nurse to make an injection. How does it work? An array of light-emitting diodes shines infrared light at the subject, and one depends on the fact that red blood cells s......affect the neural response to faces. So experience makes the difference, Tarr said. Tarr, the Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences, said similar results have been recorded in studies of birders and c...'Hedgehog' signal distinguishes lethal from localized prostate cancers
... professor of pathology, to try to figure out what makes them so deadly. To investigate Hedgehog's role in metastasis, Karhadkar genetically engineered normal prostate cells to activate their Hedgehog signal. These cells then grew unchecked and formed aggressive tumors when implanted into mice, he found. ...Federal policy has failed to prepare nation for possibility of bioterrorism
...ergency rooms nationwide. The federal government makes immediate plans to inoculate 3.5 million people, but most of the emergency-response teams, including most emergency-room doctors, have not been vaccinated for the virus. Many do not show up for work, stymieing attempts to isolate the outbreak and ad...NJIT business incubator helps start-up companies move out of the lab and into the marketplace
...e condition occurs when physical damage or disease makes it impossible to urinate, a problem that may be chronic or acute. Chronic impairment can result from nerve damage due to spinal cord injury, congenital defects such as spina bifida, or diseases that include multiple sclerosis. Acute problems can deve...Children with ADHD benefit from time outdoors enjoying nature
...eir appetite day after day and, night after night, makes it hard for them to get a decent night's rest? Not to mention the stigma and expense of medication." Simply using nature, Kuo said, "may offer a way to help manage ADHD symptoms that is readily available, doesn't have any stigma associated with i...Siberian forest fires partly to blame for Seattle area violating EPA ozone limit
...the rapidly changing climate in northern latitudes makes it likely such fires will have increasingly serious ramifications for air quality all along the West Coast of North America, said Dan Jaffe, an environmental scientist at the University of Washington, Bothell. "In the past, we haven't considered tha...VA beats managed care for diabetes, study finds
...tudy authors suggest that the VA's national system makes it easier to institute sweeping changes and to monitor whether those changes are making a difference in how patients get care, whereas managed care organizations are working individually with fewer resources and often must implement change one step a...Study indicates why hospitalists improve hospital efficiency
...at, as they build together, let us understand what makes a hospitalist program successful," said Meltzer, who also has appointments in economics and public policy at UC. Meltzer's study, which involves Kaboli and UI/VA colleagues, includes six academic medical centers and nearly 35,000 patients over the pa...Envisat's rainbow vision detects ground moving at pace fingernails grow
... geological processes in this volatile region, and makes more accurate hazard mapping possible in future. The team responsible published their preliminary work in Geophysical Research Letters Volume 31, and analysis of further Envisat InSAR results is ongoing. Coming around again The more precisely a s...Physics World Digest August 2004: Eye surgery sharpens up
... speed of corneal scans is crucial because the eye makes rapid, involuntary movements that can lead to inaccuracies in the measurements if it is not measured quickly enough. Contact: Sandra Franco, Department of Physics, University of Minho, Portugal (tel. +35 1253 604067; fax +35 1253 678981; e-mail sfr...Different subgroups of alcoholics respond differently to serotonin-acting medication
... by both acute and chronic alcohol consumption, it makes sense to investigate the use of SSRIs for alcohol-use disorders." "Individuals with alcohol problems frequently present to their family physicians with complaints of depression or anxiety and receive prescriptions for SSRIs," added Darlene H. ...New study shows phonics is critical for skilled reading
...tween spellings and sounds - or phonics - not only makes learning to read easier, but also allows the flour...eave out an important component of what ultimately makes us skilled readers."...Severe sepsis causes almost 10% of cancer deaths
... hinders their ability to fight off infection, and makes them more at risk of severe sepsis than the general population. In general, cancer patients were nearly four times as likely to be hospitalized with severe sepsis than people without cancer. Patients suffering from lymphoma, leukemia or other blood c...Parents can provide accurate reports of their children's ADHD symptoms
...school children often have several teachers, which makes getting comprehensive assessments of behavior from teachers difficult." To evaluate the feasibility of using parental reports, the MGHC researchers reviewed the medical literature to find clinical trials of ADHD medications that included evaluations ...Eye drops may delay or prevent glaucoma in African Americans at higher risk
...veloping the disease, researchers have found. This makes it more important to identify African Americans at higher risk for developing glaucoma so they can receive prompt evaluation for possible medical treatment. These results are reported in the June 2004 issue of Archives of Ophthalmology. Scientists fo......w if there is something about cigarette smoke that makes it more specific to PAD than other vascular diseases," he said. ...