UCSF-Harvard Team Reports Encouraging Results In Drug Study Of Mice With Cancer
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...dian people live in poverty. Thus, wefeel that the potential for asthma to represent a significant public healthburden among Indian children is high and the issue deserves further attention."...NASA Uses EAI Software In Groundbreaking Medical Application
...e demonstration of this application, which has the potential toimprovehealth care in geographically remote areas throughout the world, willlinkfive workstations-three in California, one in New Mexico and one inOhio-with the NASA site at Moffett Field. Using the collaborativecapabilities of EAI's World2WorldO,...New Type Of Artificial Surfactant Shows Promise In Treating Lung Disease
...y findings are dramatic, and we are excited at the potential of somedaysuccessfully treating infants and adults who have lung problems that don'trespond well to current treatment. We have been frustrated with the pooroutcome in these groups, and our results suggest that we could be on the road toa much-improv...Essential 'Allergy Feedback Loop' Discovered By Hopkins
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...n of school bus safetyregulators. "I can see a big potential for some states to adopt this," he says."I think the students have done a great job of creating a protective devicewithout making it overly restraining. Of course, we'll have to make sure thatthe severity of trauma to the torso resulting from the lap...Second Annual AIDS Vaccine Day Honors Volunteers Nationwide
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...it-liver transplants performed, but there were 427 potential donorsof livers that could have been divided to be...nd UNOS (8:10 a.m.) Split liver transplantation, a potential for wider sharing? -- Dr. Reyes,University of Pittsburgh, and Stephen Dunn, M.D., St. Christopher's ......te the procedure is both safe and feasible and has potential to promotelong-term acceptance of the organ. Findings from both studies are beingpresented at the 18th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society ofTransplantation May 15-19 and at the 25th Annual Scientific Meeting of theAmerican Society of ...Anti-Depressant Drug Shows Promise As Weight-Loss Treatment
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...ld further increase their workload, there is great potential to allow email contact with patients under appropriate circumstances....Less Toxic Bone Marrow Transplant Technique May Have More Powerful Anti-Cancer Effect
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