UW, Siemens Unveil New Panoramic Ultrasound Imaging Application Using Programmable Technology
...ltrasound Group, canperform more than four billion operations per second and matches the powerof 40 high-end Pentium processors. It uses powerful programmable hardwaretechnology and software functions conceived and developed by Yongmin Kim, UWprofessor of electrical engineering, and his research team. "The ima...Intralase Will Develop Laser Systems For Eye Surgery
... headquarters in Skillman, N.J., and manufacturing operations near Milwaukee, Wis. Funding for IntraLase is being provided by the Enterprise Development Fund, an Ann Arbor, Mich., venture capital firm. "EDF is pleased to participate in the financing and development of IntraLase Corporation," said general ...Procter & Gamble Supports Yale University Collaboration For Public Health Training Throughout China
...ers, with worldwide sales of $35.8 billion.P&G has operations in more than 70 countries, and markets more than 300 brandsin more than 140 countries...."TRAMAH" Model Seeks To Improve Emergency Response Paper Uses Maryland As Test Region
...ys linear programming, atechnique commonly used in operations research, to simulate differentpositioning combina... have interfered. In response, theresearchers used operations research to bolster trauma systems design. TRAMAH was applied and tested from two different perspect...Abstinence Reduces HIV For High-Risk Women - Even Those Who Relapse - Study Shows
...randeau of StanfordUniversity, who co-authored the operations research study about the value of HIVscreening and counseling programs for women. "One is that relapses occur, evenat the best treatment programs. And two, even when there's a relapse, atemporary reduction in risky behavior can still lead to diminish...Timing Of Breast Cancer Surgery Doesn't Appear To Influence Survival Anymore
...ese women had been interviewed shortly after their operations andasked about the length of their menstrual cycle, among other questions. Prior to 1984, the patients who underwent surgery around the time they shouldhave been ovulating were twice as likely to survive than those who had surgeryat about the onse...World's First Producer To Repair Brain Damage From Stroke
...veloped the study and is thesurgeon performing the operations that are part of this cell transplantprotocol. "This is an exciting day in the treatment of stroke. Vigorous researchto date has concentrated on prevention and ways to limit damage that has alreadyoccurred in the stroke patient's brain. If...New Short-Acting Anesthetics Cut Recovery Time
...sive surgical techniques have made itsafe for many operations even some fairly complex procedures such as gallbladder removals, breast biopsies, and pacemaker placements to take placein doctors offices," said Apfelbaum. He estimates that seven to ten percent ofsurgery is already being performed in office sett...Cedars-Sinai Surgeons Present TeleSurgery
... McKennasaid thoracic surgeons started doing chest operations using video technology inthe early 1990s. "I make...he use of advanced telephonelines will allow these operations to be seen in real time in Cincinnati withoutthe blurring or "ghosting" that used to occur during sa......king the Better of Two HIV Tests The authors used operations research and statistical modeling to assess holdingperiods to reduce the chance of a potentially infectious unit being passed onfor further processing. If done correctly, subsequent plasma processingeliminates the risk of HIV transmission through he......d her that I would if she would be OK." After the operations and the two patients had been taken to their rooms twofloors apart, Scarlett called Elaine on the phone. Elaine was ecstatic that hernew kidney had started to function immediately. "She just started crying and weboth just cried," said Scarlett. Elai...Study suggests a drug treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysms
...aneurysmsfrom enlarging could prevent thousands of operations and deaths each year. "Ifthis approach is successful, it could put us vascular surgeons out of businessfor this particular problem," Thompson says. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that 79 million Americans will be 65 or older by2050 -- up from 35 mil......tus,and other diseases, patients who underwent the operations at the medium-, low,and minimal-volume providers had a 2.1, 3.3, and 3.2 times greater risk of dyingin the hospital following surgery, respectively, than patients at thehigh-volume hospital. Differences in average length of patient hospita...Idaho attorney, Pennsylvania physician to lead American Heart Association in 1999-2000
...operating officer of J&H Global Captive Management operations andJ&H Intermediaries in 1997. He received a bachelor's degree in business administration from HussonCollege, Bangor, Maine, and an M.B.A. from the University of New HampshireWhittemore School. He has been an American Heart Association volun...UNC-CH study shows compressed air sleeve prevents blood clots during hip replacement
...nto spasm,"Lachiewicz said. "Clots can form during operations because the legs don't move,and surgeons, who have to twist the leg as they replace the hip joint, areprobably kinking leg veins." Beginning in 1991, the UNC-CH surgeons asked the Kendall Corp. of Bostonto make them a sterile version of an in...Surgery for severely obese improves more than just weight
...rage of 51 kg/m2 before the operations to an average of 35 kg/m2 18 months later. While the BMI measurements were still considered high,the patients' attitudes toward their health had markedlyimproved, ...OSU Medical Center uses robotic heart surgery technique
... allow surgeons to perform operations using incisions in the chest wall that are much smaller than those normally required," he added. The da Vinci system involves using a tiny camera with ...First brain cancer surgeries using new space-age probe are successful
...research on NASA's SpaceShuttle, in two successful operations to treat brain cancer on Earth. "A young woman operated on in May has fully recovered with nocomplications and no evidence of the tumor coming back," said Dr. Harry Whelan,a pediatric neurologist at the Medical Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwa...American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists tapped to manage PQRI
... is charged with the administrative management and operations of the Institute. The board has authority over the collection and disbursement of funds and the administrative procedures required to guarantee effectiveoperations. Following the lead of the technical committee, working groups of scientists will ...Managed care plans not always better for preventive medicine, says UCSF study
...ncisco Department of PublicHealth, Arnold Potosky, operations research analyst in the Division of CancerPrevention and Control at the National Cancer Institute, Helen HalpinSchauffler, PhD, associate professor of health policy and director of theCenter for Health and Public Policy Studies at the University of C...