Study Says Machine Sensors Applicable To Human Ills
...signs, pump and fan designs and other applications ranging from the U.S.Space Shuttle to vacuum cleaners to heart valves. Besides Hansen and Hall, the Predictive Diagnostics team includes Dr. JosephCusamano, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics, andDr. Melvin Horwith, professor of endoc...UNC-CH Study Shows State Protects HMO Clients Poorly
...;report card” sprinkled with 13 letter grades ranging from two “A”s to two “D-minuses.” Overall, North Carolina's HMO consumer protection received a “C-minus” when compared with other states and industry standards. “North Carolina has experienced an explosion in the ...New Drug For Parkinson's Disease Proves Effective, Study Finds
...ol of movement. Parkinson's, which afflicts adults ranging from ages 40 to 80,results in uncontrollable tremors and shaky, stiff, and slowmovements. The condition of patients slowly declines over a period of years or even decades, with the hardest-hitunable even to stand or walk. Current drugs reduce the sym......ture. We may perceive pain as a continuum ranging from irritating tounbearable, but a UCSF research team led by Allan Basbaum, PhD, now has made thestriking discovery that -- biologically -- mild pain and more intense pain aredistinct and governed by different signaling molecules. Effective managem...Only Eight Percent Of San Francisco HIV-Positive Urban Poor Receive Protease Inhibitors
...he patients adhered to their drug-taking regimens, ranging from 24 to 100percent of prescribed levels. If subjects missed more than 10 percent of theirdrugs, the HIV treatment became ineffective. The research project, called the REACH study for "Research in Access to Care inthe Homeless," was started in res...Botox Treats Excessive Sweating, According To UCSF Study
...Patients remained dry in the underarms for periods ranging from fourmonths to seven months, the average being 5.2 months. Patients then receivedreinjections of Botox®, which produced similar results. Further follow-upsuggests the treatment is effective for five to twelve months. Compensatoryhyperhydro...Electronic Nose Inspects Cheese, Hints At Human Sense Of Smell
... devices promised to test the quality of products ranging from foods to petrochemicals. Since then, few companies have embraced the expensive technology -- costs run as high as $100,000 per machine. That's why Harper and Kuen-Da Jou, a gr...New Short-Acting Anesthetics Cut Recovery Time
...ient satisfaction, but alsoproduced annual savings ranging from $50,000 to $158,000 per site. "Better anesthesia and minimally-invasive surgical techniques have made itsafe for many operations even some fairly complex procedures such as gallbladder removals, breast biopsies, and pacemaker placements to tak......ov. 8. Researchers at the UPMC followed patients, ranging frominfants to seniors, who were transplanted between 1989 and 1992, to determinetheir long-term survival using the anti-rejection drug developed at the UPMC. With 84 percent of the patients being hospital-bound at the time oftransplantation, the ove...Now Is Time To Design Brain-Saving Drugs Specifically For Children, UCSF Neurologist Says
...r lab study oxygen deprivation from severalangles, ranging from genetic and in-vitro cell studies to efforts to improvediagnosis and care for babies whose brains have been deprived of oxygen. Herresearch group also is working on an animal model for hypoxia-ischemia that willallow them to test not only wheth...Fifteenth Anniversary Of The Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study
...articles have been generated from the MACSresearch ranging from the role of CD4 lymphocyte counts and viral load inpredicting AIDS, to average incubation time, to the genetics of AIDS - why somepeople handle the virus so much better than others. Over the years the MACS hasprovided critical data about early ...Active Aging Makes A Difference: World Health Day 1999 Set April 7
... incommunities and cities throughout the Americas, ranging from officialdeclarations to publications to contests, walks and other events....Cordis Cardiology Introduces The MINI Crown Stent
...the MINI in 11 mm and 15 mm lengths and diameters ranging from 3.25 mm to 2.25 mm in quarter sizes. Penn described the MINI as the stent that enables physicians to "go smaller safely," predicting that it will soon become the "gold standard" for smaller vessel stenting. Penn also explained that the MINI ......, a type of cancer with an estimatedmortality rate ranging from 40 to 70 percent of the children who develop it.Most of those who survive must endure long-term complications. "We think the way this disorder works is that patients, especially pediatricpatients who have not been exposed to the Epstein-Barr vir...Heart Drug Finds New Use In Patients With Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
...w Ibutilide works. To date, eighteen WPW patients ranging inage from 4 to 75 years old have been given Ibutilide during EP study. Theresearchers have identified Ibutilide's effects on conduction over the abnormalaccessory pathway. Ibutilide has previously been shown to effectively stop atrial fibrillation ...ENBREL (Etanercept) Receives FDA Approval For Treatment Of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
...Atwo-part clinical trial was conducted in patients ranging from 4 - 17 years ofage with active polyarticular course JRA who were refractory to or intolerant ofmethotrexate therapy. In part 1 of the study, which lasted 3 months, allpatients received ENBREL. Fifty-one of 69, or 74 percent, of these patientsd...Success of plasma centers could hurt Red Cross, study finds
...r blood plasma at least once for paymentstypically ranging from $9 to $20 per donation. In that group, three out of fiveare former Red Cross donors who stopped donating blood when they started sellingtheir plasma. And most student donors don't need the money to get by, but are usingthe funds to pay ...UCSF HIV/AIDS web site honored by Smithsonian Institution
...tional change. Finalists were named in 10 areas, ranging from agriculture to transportation. Winners in each category were announced at a ceremony June 7. The winner in themedicine category was Pfizer, cited for a centralized database for managingclinical trials information. Established by a UCSF team tw...... could even pick from alist of brain structures -- ranging from the abducens nerve to white matter --and instruct your portable brain to highlight the structure in vivid coloramidst its otherwise undifferentiated beige tissue? Duke medical students enjoyed just such a capability for the first time thisyear,...PSA testing alone cannot fully explain drop in deaths from prostate cancer
...wo previous studies suggested an average lead time ranging from three tofive years, the results were based on subgroups of men who tend to have shorterlead times than the population as a whole, Etzioni says. "Even if PSA testing improves life expectancy in a clinically meaningful way, weconclude that it is u...