Darifenacin substantially improves quality of life for people with overactive bladder symptoms
...ult to defer - to be particularly bothersome. Less mobile people find this hard to cope with, as they require greater time to reach a toilet. This can cause patients to avoid leaving their home, which severely restricts their lives and can result in social isolation and depression," said Con Kelleher, Consu...Children walk nearly as much as their grandparents did
...gs were that people in their sixties are much more mobile than at any time in the past, but also that older people may also adjust their travel because of perceived risks....Needle-free anthrax vaccine shows promise in animal studies
...ery may provide a highly effective, more flexible, mobile and easy-to-use method of administering the anthrax vaccine in clinical and field settings," says the project's lead investigator, Vince Sullivan, Ph.D., a chemist with BD Technologies' Advanced Drug Delivery group in Research Triangle Park, N.C. The...Envisat Symposium report day 4: Assistance from space to combat hazards and natural disasters
...ographical information system (GIS) technology and mobile communication systems, so that georeferenced satel...route maps distributed to citizens via GPS-enabled mobile phones and in-car navigation systems, as well as through the internet. Other presentations recounte...Mobile phone use and acoustic neuroma
...Institutet, Sweden, found that 10 or more years of mobile phone use increase the risk of acoustic neuroma an...ons of an increased risk for less than 10 years of mobile phone use were found. At the time when the study was conducted only analogue (NMT) mobile phones h...Researchers develop neural prosthesis allowing a monkey to feed self using only its brain
...rm and moves much like a natural arm, with a fully mobile shoulder and elbow and a simple gripper that allows the monkey to grasp and hold food while its own arms are restrained. The arm is wired into the monkey's brain and intercepts signals through electrodes attached to tiny probes that tap into neuronal...Dana-Farber receives CDC grants to develop health promotion/prevention programs in the work place
...first evidence-based health promotion programs for mobile workers. Previous research identified unions as a...resenting unionized LTL carriers. "Because of the mobile nature of this work, worksite health programs are generally inaccessible for these workers; in addit...Safer drug prescribing for seniors in nursing homes: Canada leads the way
...POE/CDS system from anywhere in the building using mobile and stationary computers (laptops and PCs). They can also place orders through the system from their outside offices or homes. As a result of this leading effort, Baycrest will be the site of a 'landmark study' (funded with a prestigious grant fro...Mobile surgical units prevent delays in treating wounded combat patients in Iraq
CHICAGO The use of new mobile surgical teams resulted in the faster treatment of...orward Resuscitative Surgery System (FRSS), small, mobile trauma surgical teams. Lowell W. Chambers, M.D., of the First Medical Battalion/Naval Hospital Camp ...Get ready for next generation surround sound
...live. Rapid-growth portable technologies, such as mobile communications, wearable computers and personal entertainment systems, largely depend on ear phones of one sort or another for their reproduction of sound. Ear phones are perfect for creating a virtual sound field using the York-Sydney team's method....How the stories of ordinary people could give them more say over planning decisions
...cent controversies over GM foods and the siting of mobile phone masts have clearly demonstrated. "Ordinary people's accounts, in their own everyday language, are an essential ingredient in the whole process of drawing up plans and making important environmental decisions." Professor Pidgeon argues that peo...Study casts doubt on increased mobility among US population
...hat the United States is becoming an "increasingly mobile society" - that the population is changing residence at increasing levels. However, a new study provides empirical evidence in favor of an opposite trend. In fact, overall mobility has generally declined since about 1950, and interstate mobility has ...Use of cell phone images appears feasible for visualizing leg wounds
... conditions, were immediately transmitted (via the mobile telephone) to the e-mail accounts of two physician...er routine conditions using this new generation of mobile telephones and direct transfer via e-mail," the authors conclude. "We had the impression that a high...Telemedicine revolution is 'disappearing' from the NHS
...se new systems connect patients with the NHS using mobile or fixed phones to send data about health problems, enabling early intervention when needed, and potentially reducing hospital admissions. But they face similar problems of integration in a health service which is not a single organisation, but rathe...UCLA Medical Center becomes first hospital to introduce remote presence robots in ICU
...r has announced initial clinical tests of the RP-6 mobile robot system in its neurosurgery intensive care un...uxey, is a commercially available, remote wireless mobile patient data system developed at UCLA Medical Center. Patient and family reaction to the robot has b...