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...good news is, this study gives hospitals a clearer picture of the scope and nature of this issue and will help them to determine why these problems are occurring and to develop strategies to address them." "It would be a mistake to focus on the performance of individual health care providers when interpretin...How odors help make multimodal memories
... subject might smell the aroma of a rose and see a picture of a duck and be asked to invent a link. Then, as their brains were imaged using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the subjects were presented with a series of both previously seen images and new images. They were not asked about the odors, but ......f associations rather than unitary chunks, where a picture of woman drinking a cocktail on a beach can stir up your own holiday memories, even if the only similarity between the image and your memory is the sun hat she is wearing." "That sun hat can set off your own memories of feeling the sand between your ...Mouse study could aid vaccine designers
...alth, have conducted studies in mice to gain a new picture of how the immune system's "killer" T cells are prompted to destroy infected cells. Their insights provide a blueprint for rational design of vaccines that induce desired T-cell responses. The findings are published in this week's Science. "If we are...Parents can provide accurate reports of their children's ADHD symptoms
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...he patient's medical record. The treatment picture is also somewhat better. Eighty percent of patients who said they had ever used tobacco had a detailed history of their tobacco use recorded in their medical record. Chart records indicated that 50 percent of teen smokers received physician advice ...New study shows phonics is critical for skilled reading
...ite the fact that science has started to develop a picture of the biological and behavioral processes that gu...he process of reading works." To provide a clearer picture of the reading process, Seidenberg and former graduate student Michael Harm, now at Stanford Univers...AIDS toll in African heartland isn't always what people think
...what it means to rural families, is painting a new picture of HIV/AIDS in the heartland of African countries ...w both families and communities can be helped. The picture emerging is less about an annihilation of families, but is a more nuanced pattern of loss that cripp...Why is Ian Kennedy's healthcare commission damaging NHS care?
...narrowly drawn targets to give a properly balanced picture of an institution's work? Where is the qualitative information to add to the reductive numerical approach that you currently endorse? Your report answers none of these questions. Why is there this utter failure of scientific rigour? For an answer, on...Wartime spitfire strain test monitors stress on key heart artery - aortic aneurysm
...s and manipulations of an aneurysm and get a clear picture of the stresses created without the obvious risks that testing less conservative interventions would bring if they were tried out on the actual patient." University of Warwick researcher Mr Geoff Calvert is pleased with the success of the work so far...Scientists image tooth decay in the 3rd dimension
... Poland outlined a new way of making a detailed 3D picture of a diseased area of a tooth, which could be done while a patient waits. Simon Poland, from the Institute of Photonics at the University of Strathclyde, working with colleagues at the Glasgow Dental Hospital, and the University of Dundee, has used ...Optics meeting tips: Internal fingerprints, no cell left behind, 3-D reality
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...ts included in the study measure abilities such as picture completion, picture arrangement, block design and object assembly. As a group, the tests require visualization and organ...One in 6 chronically ill adults skip Rx drugs due to cost
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... of the rofecoxib jigsaw puzzle. However, the real picture of cardiovascular risk has been apparent for some time and Merck's vigorous defence of this drug in the past was clearly an error. If the dangers associated with rofecoxib were not proven, they were certainly possible, even probable, given the availa...MRI can measure early benefits of cholesterol-lowering drugs and plaque reduction
...ard imaging techniques, the Hopkins team amplified picture taking by placing a series of extra coil rings around the chest of each patient (the main electromagnetic coil ring gives MRI its distinct doughnut shape). To amplify the signal, or image, received by MRI, each patient swallowed an antenna, inserted...