Hopkins Researchers Develop Under-The-Skin Implant For Pain Treatment
...to their villages. Villagers, many of whom cannot read or write and do not own clocks, will not need to store medicines or remember when and how to take them. The new drug delivery system is also appealing to Indian physicians because it reduces concerns about illegal sales of these drugs. Following the...Kids Near Airports Don't Read As Well
...ombarded by frequent aircraft noise don't learn to read as well as children in quiet schools, Cornell Univ...o talk as much, use as many complete sentences and read aloud as often as other teachers and parents. Both researchers stress the need to reestablish an of...Affordable, Hand-Held Biosensor For Diagnostics
... device at apatient and it would take a sample and read out all his problems," Sailorexplained. "Our device was inspired by that image--a small, sensitive diagnosticunit that is very easy to use." Also collaborating in the study were Victor S.-Y. Lin, and KianoushMoteshari, researchers with TSRI; ...Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Enhances Short-Term Brain Plasticity
...sensations from their fingertips, which helps them read Braille. However, in other cases, brain reorganization may lead to problems such asphantom pain, which often develops after amputation. This study suggests thatresearchers might be able to use TMS or other strategies to enhance plasticitywhen it is ...Airport Noise Can Seriously Affect The Health And Psychological Well-Being OfChildren
...al airport tended to be poor listeners and did not read as well asmatched children in quiet schools. Later this year, Evans hopes to report onhow chronic noise affects reading, learning and mental health in the Munichstudy group. The study was supported, in part, by the Society for the Psychological S...Most People Cant Identify Stroke Symptoms
...ounts in stroke treatment, people must learn howto read the signals that are telling them to seek medical help so that they cantake immediate action," said John R. Marler, M.D., of the NINDS Division ofStroke, Trauma, and Neurodegenerative Disorders. "The best way for patients to receive the most effectiv...Filmless System Puts X-Ray Images On The Web
... theUniversity of Maryland Medical Center will now read X-rays and otherradiological images on computer sc...or enhance the image. "We will be able to read scans within minutes and can help colleagues inother parts of the building or in outside offices mak...... American Institute of Physics at301-209-3091. To read the abstracts of the paper mentioned in the newsconference description, go to the ICA/ASA Meeting Abstracts Database( asa.aip.org/asasearch.html ) and type in the paper code. FOR ADDITIONAL INFO DURING THE WEEK OF JUNE 22 Please feel free to call B...... American Institute of Physics at301-209-3091. To read the abstracts of the papers mentioned in the newsconference description, go to the ICA/ASA Meeting Abstracts Database(asa.aip.org/asasearch.html) and type in the paper code. See also the laylanguage paper at http://www.acoustics.org/crum.htm FOR A...Injecting Drugs With Sound Waves
... American Institute of Physics at301-209-3091. To read the abstracts of the papers mentioned in the newsconference description, go to the ICA/ASA Meeting Abstracts Database( asa.aip.org/asasearch.html ) and type in the paper code. FOR ADDITIONAL INFO DURING THE WEEK OF JUNE 22:Please feel free to call ......d Romine. "But I never went into remission. Then I read aboutBrian Druker's work in The Oregonian and I wr...ow this keeps us going." Bud and his wife read about Dr. Druker in an Oregonian article on April30, 1996, and contacted him at OHSU. The Romines wi...Low "Health Literacy" Increases Hospitalizations
...cipants took a test that measured their ability to read andunderstand health-related written materials such as a standard informed-consentapplication, and to comprehend directions for taking medicines, monitoring bloodglucose levels, and keeping clinical appointments. Hospital admissions are a maj...Want To Eat Less Fat? Resolve To Read Food Labels
...om fat, compared to about 30percent for people who read labels." Nutrition experts recommend that consumer...was common; 80 percent of those surveyed said they read labelson packaged foods. Label reading was most typical among women, those who werecollege-educated ...Program Developed At UF Enables Computer To "Emote" In Speech
...omly selected volunteers who listened to sentences read by thecomputer, nearly all identified the sad voice. Many also identified the angryand fearful voice, but the volunteers had trouble differentiating the happyvoice from the neutral voice, Truluck said. That's partly because angry and sad voic...Study Of Women And Hearing Reveals Need For Routine Hearing Tests
...maintaining face-to-face communication;learning to read body language and facial expression; avoiding darkly lit placesor places that have excessive background noise; and letting others know when youare having trouble understanding them. The Northwestern audiologists also stress the need for testing in or...NICHD-Funded Researchers Show Estrogen Effects On Brain After Menopause
...n southern India and Sri Lanka. People who do not read Tamil perceiveits characters as abstract symbols.) During storage of nonsense words, women on estrogen demonstratedsignificantly more activation in the inferior parietal lobule, a brain regionknown to be associated with storing verbal inform......f two strokepatients, 34 and 45 years old, as they read and indicated their comprehension ofnormal English sentences. Very soon after stroke, the cortical areas on theright sides of their brains, the right-hand homologues of Broca's area or ofWernick's area, showed increasing activation during the sentenc...USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...y cases, she was the firstAmerican scholar ever to read these works. Furth, a professor of history in the University of Southern California Collegeof Letters, Arts and Sciences, first learned about this huge body of material in1982 as a visiting Fulbright professor at Beijing University. Following the 194...New Book Looks At Those Who Examine Our Sex Lives
...bout our sexlives, partners, and practices. We've read the results with guilty pleasure,and measured our own behavior against them. And we have noted the results ofmore scholarly sex surveys, always comparing our behavior to that of therespondents. But who asks these questions? And why? What effects d......they should be able to return to the last sentence read and continue reading. The investigators used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), whichmeasures changes in blood flow to the brain, to view the brains of volunteerswhile they performed branching tasks. When a particular part of the brain is...