How Ritalin Enhances Memory: Clues Provided By Brain Scans of ADHD Patients Using The Drug
...k. Working memory is a fairly new term that replaces and expands upon theconcept of short-term memory. Researchers have theorized that working memoryserves not only as temporary storage for new information, but also the activemanipulation of this information. Part of the active process may involveinh...UI researchers find more natural method to possibly induce vascular growth
...re looking for ways to developnew blood vessels to replaces those either damaged or blocked from coronaryconditions. Until now, the focus has been on using either injections of the needed VEGF orusing the gene therapy strategy, which involves delivering the VEGF to itsintended destination via a disabled cold...Computerized prescription system reduces errors caused by bad handwriting
...lso enter orders) is a computer-based program that replaces written and verbal instructions, including drug orders (prescriptions), with keystrokes into a networked system. Physicians log onto a PC, either in their office or the units where patients are being treated, including post-operative recovery rooms ...Minister Of Health launches Canadian Institutes of Health Research
...arch, first announced in the 1999 federal budget, replaces the Medical Research Council of Canada. Along with a doubling of the research budget over three years, CIHR will create a series of virtual institutes linking investigators from all four areas of health research -- biomedical research, clinical rese...Product design and drug development breakthroughs help the environment
...as a "carrier" for the coatings. The water carrier replaces solvents that contain volatile organic compounds (...g an infested structure. The Sentricon™ method replaces one that required termite fighters to use a barrier with large volumes of insecticide placed in soil...New minimally invasive surgical procedure for arthritis may delay knee replacement surgery
...was knee replacement surgery, in which the surgeon replaces the damaged knee with an artificial implant. Surgeons are generally reluctant to perform replacement surgery on younger, more active patients because of the irreversible removal of bone required. Until now, the most prevalent options for delaying par...U-M artificial lung showing promise, as need grows
...ry artery, can be used in or outside the body, and replaces 100 percent of lung function. "This generation of long-term, bridge-to-transplant implantable artificial lungs is on the verge of reaching the patients who need it most, and have no other options," says Bartlett, a professor of surgery, director of c...USC researchers develop new way to measure cultural adaptation of youth
...h the culture of origin; Assimilation: the person replaces native culture with the new host culture; Separation: the person retains the native culture and rejects the host cultural orientation; and Marginalization: the person becomes alienated from both cultures. The complex process may lead to identity ...UCSF orthopedic surgeons test artificial back disc
...of 13 centers currently evaluating Prosdisc, which replaces discs damaged by degeneration, bulging, herniation, or thinning. The objective of the randomized clinical trial, which will enroll approximately 510 patients over four years, is to compare the safety and effectiveness of the Prodisc implant to spinal...New approach to replacing immune cells shrink tumors in patients with melanoma
A new approach to cancer treatment that replaces a patient's immune system with cancer-fighting cells can lead to tumor shrinkage, researchers report today in the journal Science*. The study demonstrates that immune cells, activated in the laboratory against patients' tumors and then administered ...Possible new cancer therapy shrinks tumors in melanoma patients, Science authors report
A treatment that replaces most of the body's immune system with cancer fighting cells shrank the melanomas of some seriously ill patients, researchers report. The findings appear in the journal Science , published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. ...Wake Forest pediatric heart surgeon to repair heart defect on live Webcast
...s only three or four small incisions in the chest replaces major surgery to make the repair. It is offered at only a handful of hospitals in the United States. Dr. Michael Hines has performed more than 230 of the outpatient procedures at Brenner Children's since 1995.The surgery will close a channel, called...Enzyme replacement therapy found to effectively treat patients with Fabry disease
...ected," said Dr. Wilcox. "Now we have a drug that replaces the deficient enzyme so that patients can live longer and better." In the study, Raul was one of 58 patients selected at random to receive r-haGAL or a placebo by infusion every two weeks for a 20-week period. After completing 20 weeks of the stu...MIT, hospital begin cancer trials
...ion Facility. Housed in MIT's research reactor, it replaces a facility in the same location that had been used for 15 years. Busse is director of the clinical aspects of the research. Robert G. Zamenhof (MIT Ph.D. 1977), currently at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, presently h...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for September 2003 (first issue)
...ts, the fluid can solidify and fibrosis (scarring) replaces lung tissue. That occurrence impairs gas exchange in the lung. In this study, the median survival time for the patients was 5.81 years. The research results appear in the first issue for September 2003 of the American Thoracic Society's peer-revie...Stanford computer model shows bypass surgery more cost-effective than stents
...e artery that has a blockage, while bypass surgery replaces a more extensive length of artery and therefore better protects against disease progression. "Stents are not the curative procedure that people think. If people choose stent procedures they should be prepared to come back," she said. "If your house h......ally start righting the aircraft a view of the sky replaces the sea and I bump back on my seat as Zero-G is replaced by gravity close to double that on Earth. The A-300 has been specially customised for parabolic flights. For practical reasons it lacks a bathroom, although the 12 teams aboard are far too fo...National study seeks cause of baffling, fatal disorder called multiple system atrophy
...urns her over in bed at night and four times a day replaces her catheter. In spite of Suzanne's declining condition, both she and Ron have remained incredibly positive. Because her atrophied eye muscles make reading impossible, Suzanne now listens to books on tape and watches TV. For fun together,...Blood transplants may be more harmful than bone marrow transplants in pediatric leukemia patients
...l blood stem cells are given to the patient, which replaces the destroyed marrow. In adults, peripheral blood collection has become increasingly common in recent years, because it allows donors to avoid the difficulties of bone marrow collection, such as surgery and anesthesia. Since peripheral blood trans......Charite artificial disc - a prosthetic device that replaces a damaged or won out disc - was recently approved by the FDA and was tested at Cedars-Sinai. J. Patrick Johnson, M.D., Director of the Institute for Spinal Disorders at Cedars-Sinai is available for interviews. NEW DIRECTOR OF COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPL...