Study Says Machine Sensors Applicable To Human Ills
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...ning to enroll approximately 660 patients over the next year who have newly diagnosed metastatic disease and have not been treated with chemotherapy or those who may have received adjuvant chemotherapy but have been disease-free for at least one year. About 50 centers throughout the U.S., Canada and Aust...It Matters Where, In America, You Suffer A Heart Attack
... are likely to need further hospitalization in the next few months, researchers said Tuesday (Nov. 12) at ...o the hospital for follow-up treatments during the next six months. For the Mid-Atlantic region, year-long medical expenses cost an average of more than...Johns Hopkins To Announce AIDS Capitated Care Program
...or HIV care that could be adopted nationallyin the next few years, according to John G. Bartlett, director of the divisionof infectious diseases. Hopkins will announce details of the program, called "Moore Options," ata press briefing Thursday, Jan. 16 at 10 a.m. in the Johns Hopkins OutpatientCenter, Ro...Duke Study Uses Tiny Temperature Changes To Probe Water-Exclusion At Protein Binding Sites
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...vailable in pharmacies around the nation beginning next week under the brand name Mirapex, developed by Pharmacia & Upjohn and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. The study of pramipexole dihydrochloride's effects onpatients at 20 hospitals around the nation, led by researchers at the Universit...Milk Extract May Heal Wounds And Smooth Wrinkles
...ealing in animals. The extract will soon face its next major test to see if it speeds upthe healing of wounds in humans as well. If it passes that test, the scientists say the extract could eventuallyclaim a world market worth anything up to $20 billion. The project-a world first-is the brainchild of s...Unique Interactive Health Kiosks Distributed In Michigan
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... will put the company in a position to develop the next generation of ophthalmic lasers and capitalize on the rapidly growing laser eye surgery market." Animal testing to determine the safety and effectiveness of IntraLase lasers will be conducted at the U-M's Kellogg Eye Center under a sponsored res...Jefferson Researcher Finds New Digital X-Ray Technology May Cut Costs And Improve Patient Care
... Jefferson University Hospital, and to be unveiled next week, has the potential to replace the current film X-ray technology, while reducing health care costs and improving patient care, says Gary S. Shaber, M.D., research professor of Radiology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and ...Drug Regimen Reduces Atrial Fibrillation After Heart Surgery
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... for Targon's provision of $3.75 million, over the next three years, to support research and further testing of advanced anti-cancer drugs. Under the research agreement, one half of the funds are designated fordrug/technology discovery grants that will support research on identifiedreagents/techno...... for four scenarios. The necessary tax rate forthe next 75 years under each scenario was: mortality rate under the SSA's current intermediate(rather than highest or lowest) assumption: 14.6% experts' median, 14.7% experts' median...X-ray Microscope Designed To Study Jet Engine Components Now Probes Tooth Dentin
...ried sponge, Sally Marshall explains. In the next stage of the study, the research team is examining how toothdecay progresses differently in different areas of dentin and how age affectsthe process of tooth disease....Radio Frequencies Used To Kill Inoperable Liver Tumors At Penn's Cancer Center
...have multiple tumors that make surgical extraction next to impossible." To get at those formerly inaccessible tumors via radio frequency ablation, surgeons use ultrasound as a visual roadmap to guide a needle-sized probe directly into the center of the cancerous tumor. Once inside the tumor, the ti...