Pacific Northwest National Laboratory wins three R&D 100 awards
...pands the need for an accurate, inexpensive way to measure how much radiation food and other products are get...ng through the product. The Sunna DosimeterTM can measure a wider range of doses than other technologies, is resistant to most environmental conditions and ha...AAPS workshop to explore regulatory approaches to bioavailability, bioequivalence
...ew and emerging scientific technical approaches to measure BA and document BE for orally administered immediate release drug products. Identify and explore drug development and scientific issues for orally administered extended release drug products. Review and discuss clinical and other scientific...Repairing brain damage from stroke may be possible with brain cell transplants
...ome patients had worse scores on the tests used to measure patients' disability after six months than they did at the time of the transplant, and some patients' scores stayed the same over the six months. This work marks a transition in stroke medicine from prevention efforts and efforts to limit the da...Hormone therapy doesn't slow heart disease, despite improvements in cholesterol
...ion, a test that injects dye into the arteries, to measure narrowing in the heart's arteries caused by a buil...o). Sophisticated computer techniques were used to measure subtle changes in their arteries over the 3.2-year study period. "Overall, there were no differenc...Fine-tuning naltrexone treatment for alcoholics
...he said, "this study also shows us that we can and measure blood levels and know if this person needs a higher dose. We can now dose people specifically to get the best level of beta-naltrexol in their systems in order to have the best clinical effect." McCaul is planning to continue her studies in this are...OHSU researchers reveal how bacteria crawl on surfaces
...ovel aspect of the study, researchers were able to measure the mechanical force that bacterial cells exert in...eld in the laser beam, the scientists were able to measure the force with which the bead was pulled out of the laser tweezers. "For about 30 years it's been kn...Researchers take steps to growing replacement blood vessels
...pe of the tiny grooves, which measure only a few micrometers across -- less than the width of a human hair. Normal viewing instruments would have torn the delicate surface of the gel, he said. They developed a method Moldov...ARICEPT better tolerated than Exelon in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimers disease
...atment period. ADAS-cog is a clinically validated measure of cognitive function. Testing was administered by independent raters who were blinded to study medication. Key study findings: Almost 4 times as many patients in the Exelon (rivastigmine tartrate)-treatment group reported nausea compa...Unique collaborative service established for childhood allergy-related anaphylaxis
...aff, giving adrenaline by injection as a first aid measure and before hospital admission. This study also established that only one third of children attending school in South Australia had emergency medication available at school, an emergency action plan, or a teacher or carer on site able to administer ...Students demonstrate water quality tests
...ilize simple and inexpensive experimental tests to measure chemical toxicity andmicrobiological pollution in water samples taken directly from their local environments. In addition to using lettuce seeds and onionbulbs, the students have been conducting the tests with fresh-water hydra, a microscopic aqua......aphy - which has been developed to more accurately measure motor limb activity occurring in PD. PD is characterised by a delay in starting movements, increased time to carry out movements and difficulty in sustaining activity to reach a goal. These symptoms - called akinesia - are accompanied by sudden acc......ta collected from electrocardiograms (EKG) used to measure electrical activity in the heart. Using the EKG, cardiologists were capable of evaluating the function and safety of the device. EKG data were available for analysis in all but 15 cases. The devices were approved for airline use in 1996 by the Food...GL701 (prasterone) significantly reduces lupus flares
...ythematosus Disease Activity Index (SLEDAI), which measure disease activity; physician and patient visual analog scales (VAS), which measure quality of life parameters; and percent of patients with definite flares. Study results show tha...Claims-based measurement shows many Medicare patients do not receive necessary care
... B claims. According to the authors, efforts to measure needed care have traditionally focused on vulnerab... can be used in a variety of ways to inexpensively measure underuse. "Screening administrative data to determine areas of a health care system in need of furt...Welfare to work does not improve mental health
...lt, the federal government only requires states to measure how many welfare recipients leave the program for work, not the effect it has on their health. But this research shows that assumption may be incorrect." The research is based on data collected before the 1996 welfare reform legislation limiting ...New antipsychotic drugs combined with nicotine patch help schizophrenics quit smoking
...bstantially elevated, we actually did an objective measure of smoking, checking carbon monoxide levels (a by-product of cigarette smoke), Schizophrenics and Smoking)and found a substantial reduction in carbon monoxide levels in patients who were prescribed the newer medications," George said. "People on...Imperial College wins Queen's Anniversary Prize
...ep deprivation, on a surgeon's performance, and to measure the effectiveness of new technologies and training methods. Professor Ara Darzi, Head of Department and Professor of Surgery, said: "We are privileged to receive this honour in recognition of our efforts." The Prizes will be presented by Her Maj...Researchers image language recovery after stroke
...ents on the basis of clinical symptoms. Scientists measure brain activity in patients with a specific language deficit in the hope of correlating that symptom with decreased activity in a particular area of the brain or capturing an image of how the brain reorganizes itself after injury. But there is a gr...Deaf children who get cochlear implants earliest get the biggest language boost, large study finds
...l children took a battery of six standard tests to measure their ability to recognize sounds, words and sentences. Overall, the results showed a strong combined effect of age at implantation and the length time the children had had their implants. Cochlear implants are electronic devices that transform speec......ormed and those increases are generally assumed to measure activity." Shulman, in a study published in the January issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry, said what this means can be seen by considering that the brains signal at rest is, for example, 100. Once it undertakes a task, the brains activ...