Medicine implants drastically reduce stroke complications
... wall and bursts. Then the vessel bleeds into the space that covers the surface of the brain with spinal fluid. Surgery is required to repair the vessel. A patch or artificial piece of blood vessel is sewn over the rupture. A major complication of SAH is vasospasm, a prolonged contraction of the artery ...Researchers demonstrate direct, real-time brain control of cursor
...ense of how the brain plans to move a hand through space and to use that information as a control signal for someone who is paralyzed. We want to provide some freedom to this individual." The device "would work for anything you can do or you can imagine doing by pointing and clicking," Donoghue said. 'This...'Star Wars' like technology closer than galaxies far away
...p closer to reality. And, it's with funding from a space medicine research institute that this breakthrough...p is developing a version of the device for use on space missions. From shuttle flights and aboard the ISS to future interplanetary missions, the device cou...Study reveals differences in patients' response to Ritalin
...the amount of dopamine in brain cell synapses, the space between cells (see: http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2001/bnlpr011501a.html ). It does this by blocking dopamine transporters, proteins that normally transport dopamine from the synapse back into dopamine cells, recycling it for future use. More d...Childhood stroke deaths drop, but still higher among blacks
...ubarachnoid hemorrhagic strokes (bleeding into the space between the brain and the skull) dropped by 79 percent, while strokes from intracerebral hemorrhages (bursting of a defective brain vessel) declined by 54 percent. The declines were not as marked for deaths from ischemic stroke, which results from ...HIV/AIDS impact on education intensifies economic downfall
...ic that reduces life expectancy by 15 years in the space of about one decade." In Mozambique, life expectancy is now less than 40 years, according to UNAIDS and WHO. In summarizing his report's findings, Arndt said that by 2010 Mozambique's economy will be between 16 percent and 23 percent smaller than it ...Urinary incontinence of rural older women dramatically improved by behavioral techniques
...y increasing the intervals until they were able to space them to every 2 hours or more. Other women, however, began with the self-monitoring phase, which lasted for 4 weeks. They were selected for this phase based on such factors as drinking two or more cups of caffeinated beverages, urinating two or mo...UT Southwestern receives $1.7 million grant to study effects of long-term space travel on the heart
...y why the heart decreases in size during long-term space travel. Cardiac atrophy, or a decrease in heart ma...and upright, and has been documented in short-term space flights. "There has been some concern that if cardiac atrophy is severe then the risk of arrhythmias...Care of head injuries falls well short of recommendations
...minor head injuries, and half the hospitals had no space to include one. All the hospitals had computed tomography scanning facilities, but over a third complained of access problems because of lack of resources or radiologists. Only Addenbrooke's Hospital offered specialist neurosurgical care to patients ...U-M, World Health Organization host telemedicine symposium
...pment connect doctors and patients through virtual space for clinical care and education ANN ARBOR, MI - There are health leaders, information technologists and policy makers who believe information technology provides appropriate tools for the remote practice......od may accumulate in the tissues as well as in the space between the brain and the membranes covering the brain, a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Bleeding may be isolated in a part of one cerebral hemisphere (lobar intracerebral hemorrhage) or occur in other brain structures, such as the thalamus, basal ganglia...Parents benefit by accompanying children on ambulance trips between hospitals
...oted, however, that there might be factors such as space limitations, as in helicopter transports, or other situations in which it is not appropriate to include a parent during a transport....Medical hospitalization may be especially distressing for those with psychiatric disorders
...hort term and do not subside but continue over the space of one year, noted Booth. The study results are published in the January 2001 issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Booth and colleagues suggested the use of brief mental health and substance abuse screening tests. These could be compl...Iowa project links rural areas cross-state to top-notch medical advice
...ry team back in Ottumwa. On the consultation days, space in Ottumwa High School was reserved and special equipment put in. Noon was chosen so that Samuel wouldn't miss classes and sohis teachers could attend the sessions, too. At the Ottumwa site, the Walkers' Behavioral consultant and in-home worker joi......d managers must also deal with the 70% of vineyard space that lies between the vine rows. These areas require treatments different from those applied to the rows. "Some weeds in these areas can even be beneficial," says Mr Penfold. "They may help to fix nitrogen in the soil, soak up surplus water or ...UIC chemists synthesize potent anticancer compound
...gurations found in nature is as hard as building a space shuttle," Ghosh said. "We needed to preserve the stereochemistry at nine centers, maintain the cis configuration of six olefin bonds, and protect the epoxide and ester functions of the molecule." Most exciting, Ghosh said, is that the stepwise synth...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2000
...drain, but where one is available, it will provide space cooling and dehumidification as well as hot water. If broadly adopted, use of this water heater could save almost 1 percent of the country's energy consumption. [Contact: John Tomlinson] NUCLEAR ENERGY Next-generation safe power plants . . . An...Hutchinson Center receives $1.2 million from National Science Foundation to study plant genetics
...e plant molecular biology expertise and greenhouse space for the 10,000 Arabidopsis plants needed for the intitial project setup. The work will be performed at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, which will host the project through the Hutchinson Center. "All flowering plants are very closely rel......is media is an inflammation of the middle ear (the space just behind the eardrum), and is often caused by bacteria. Other than colds or coughs, otitis media is the most common illness young children encounter, accounting for at least 30 million sick child visits to the doctor each year. Because ear inf......lastics for everything from children's toys to the space shuttle. The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, will designate Moses Gomberg's discovery of organic free radicals a National Historic Chemical Landmark at a ceremony June 25 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. ...