Study shows benefit of pioneering U-M program for newborns at risk of hearing impairment
...ot tested will be given informationalmaterials and sent a follow-up checklist when their babies are 3 to 4 monthsold. Their pediatricians will also be given information, and told where to referbabies for testing if they feel it is needed. No matter what the outcome of that upcoming study, and of an NIH s...Researchers find elevated cholesterol is risk factor for preeclampsia
...study's regularsurveys taken in 1993 and 1995 were sent a questionnaire to confirm theirearlier report and request permission to review their medical records. Permission was received and adequate medical records acquired more than 600women, and of those, 216 had confirmed gestational hypertension and 86 h......d thereby enhance its intelligibility, beforeit is sent over the phone line. Their enhancement techniques take into accountthe hearing abilities of a typical elderly user, and the limited frequencyrange, or bandwidth, of traditional phone lines. The researchers will presentresults comparing the two spee...Discarded thymus tissue provides life for infants with DiGeorge Syndrome
...function is to "educate" immature T cells that are sent to the thymus after stemcells in the bone marrow produce them. "These immature T cells go to the thymusto get trained," she says. "It's just like going to school. It takes about threemonths to learn what cells belong to the person, and what cells don...Cranfield technology noses ahead
...Current tests take between 24 and 48 hours and are sent away to a laboratory. 'Diag-Nose' returns results in a matter of hours and can be installed in most surgeries. The new test can also be done for a faction of the present cost of UTI diagnosis. The test works by sniffing out characteristic odours of ......hat show some anti-TB mechanism. Those that do are sent to the postdoctoral researchers at SmithKline Beecham, who will use the company's automated "high-throughput" system. This testing procedure can scan up to eight million compounds, matching existing drugs with those possessing anti-TB qualities. ...New treadmill 'scores' may help physicians better diagnose heart disease
...and clinical data -- but not the angiogram -- were sent to a total of 142 physicians, including 44 "expert" cardiologists (defined as those with many years of experience in conducting studies and performing angiography), 48 less experienced cardiologists and 50 internists. All were chosen at random and a...Computerized prescription system reduces errors caused by bad handwriting
...nstance. Now, with a push of a button, orders are sent immediately to the pharmacy and other departments. Brill said that in tests done on Rush's POE system, radiology orders took less than one minute, on average, to arrive in the radiology department. 2) Accessibility. Physicians can access the POE a......t. In Illinois, patients found NGRI are typically sent to Elgin Mental Health Hospital, where they are evaluated for approximately 30 days. After a thorough psychiatric evaluation, the patients are either detained in the hospital or released into a state-mandated outpatient forensic psychiatric program....Women medical school faculty perceive gender bias, sexual harassment
... first author. To gather the results, surveys were sent to 3,332 men and women at 24 medical schools across the United States. The respondents were spread across age, gender and specialties and were asked 177 questions about demographic characteristics, professional goals, work situation, self-esteem, fam...OHSU researchers capture cell transmissions on tape for first time
...ynapses. At these synapses, packets of information sent by one cell are received by other cells. Researche...iscovering treatment strategies." The messages are sent in the form of vesicles, which are tiny membranous bags filled with a chemical substance called tran...CDC funds will enable UNC-CH to help minimize domestic violence in flood areas
...fruit to take to the stricken communities. The CDC sent representatives to accompany team members to flooded areas and invited the university to submit a proposal for funding. Dr. Marci Campbell, assistant professor of nutrition at the schools of public health and medicine, is principal investigator, and ...Mouse provides clues about chronic pain
...tors sit on the cell surface, tuned in to messages sent from neighboring cells and carried by the chemical messenger glutamate. More importantly, NMDA receptors are a neurons activity detectors, and they function only when the number and intensity of neuronal messages reach a prescribed, threshold level. ...Science, engineering and technology newstips
... time a data packet waits in a router before being sent on its way -- is much lower than that of electronic routers, he said. Packets spend a brisk 100 nanoseconds in the optical router, while lazing for several microseconds in the best available electronic routers. The basics of Yoo's optical router wer...Not all allergy tests are created equal, study suggests
... with known allergies and then sent samples from each individual ... In this study, the researchers sent serum samples from 26 patients to six labs for testing. Serum is the fluid porti...Baylor team discovers reason for heart transplant failure
...n reaction, or PCR, test. All of the biopsies were sent from Loma Linda University Children's Hospital in ...e therapy reduces the inflammation, the patient is sent home with a clean bill of health, he said. "But, nothing has been done about the virus. It's still s...Microbes and the dust they ride in on pose potential health risks
...n the island of St. John in the Virgin Islands and sent them to the USGS laboratory in St. Petersburg, Florida, for microbial analysis by Griffin. He compared his results with satellite observations tracking dust clouds from North Africa. The air samples with high levels of microbes were collected on the...Optical technique studies brain activity without surgery on skull
...attered light is then collected by optical fibers, sent to detectors and analyzed by a computer. By examining how much of the light is scattered and how much is absorbed, Gratton and his colleagues in the universitys Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics can map portions of the brain and extract informatio...PET scan results change patient management for sixty percent of breast cancer patients
...ll of the patients referred for PET scans had been sent for restaging. Czernin noted that even when staging itself wasnt affected, physicians often changed the clinical management as a result of the scan, adding to its importance. This study, combined with the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committees June 1...Virginia Tech students discoveries can help prevent water-borne diseases
...ith whom he had collaborated in the past. Scardina sent his graduate papers and computer models to Mendocino. "Paolos research has given us a good understanding of the sources of our problems," Schott notes. "Hes the only person Ive found in the United States who does work in the field of dissolved gases ...