Brookhaven spotlights: News from the March 2003 American Chemical Society Meeting
...khaven chemist Hua-Gen Yu has devised a new way to speed up computer calculations of how molecules with up ..., the scientists were surprised to notice that the speed of the electrons inside the bridge reached a limit for small bridges. Newton suggests that two pheno...Electronic job aid to benefit healthcare workers and patients
... for example, the same technology could be used to speed admissions procedures and reduce billing and paperwork errors, a common problem in hospitals. Likewise, laboratories could use MedEPSS to input lab results as they become available and transmit them directly to physicians. The possibilities are enorm...Patients benefit when doctor uses computer, not paper, to write prescriptions
...E, he said, is the way it can speed up patient care in many cases. Previous studies report that up to one-third of all hospitalized patients experience some kind of delay in their care, with the average length of a delay b...For determining protein structures, a new method boosts precision and speed in high-dimensional NMR
...h this new method, we've increased data collection speed by orders of magnitude," said Szyperski. "For exam...to the NESGC and UB funds, will provide additional speed for NMR experiments. In collaboration with Gaetano T. Montelione, Ph.D., of Rutgers University, and...Drug combination opens clogged arteries faster, keeps them open longer
...monly used clot-busting agent t-PA -- improved the speed and endurance of restored blood flow to the heart. Eptifibatide is one of a new class of drugs used to prevent the aggregation of platelets in the bloodstream, a process that can lead to the formation of new blood clots, causing potentially dangerous...Depletion of body chemical can cause memory, mood changes
...ncentrated listening tasks and tasks measuring the speed of memory retrieval. The results also showed that tryptophan depletion induced mood depression in half of the subjects who had a family history of depression but in only 9 percent of those with no family history of depression. The latter finding sugg...Tissue-engineered cells transmit electrical signals in animal hearts
...rtant to conduction in the heart. They modify the speed and direction of the electrical signals, and greatly influence how they flow from cell to cell." "The other question was whether these cells would actually connect with cardiac cells to form an electrical pathway," he says. Today, the research tea...Targeted smallpox vaccinations could be effective intervention against deliberate attack
...communities could have a significant impact on the speed of smallpox spread and the reach of an epidemic," Dr. Longini adds. "In future models, we will explore additional possibilities, such as the interconnectedness of different communities, the possibility of the original infected individuals moving amo...Training improves cognitive abilities of older adults
...ved either memory training, reasoning training, or speed of processing training, and a fourth group that re...eek training period, 87 percent of participants in speed training, 74 percent of participants in reasoning training, and 26 percent of participants in memory...Pre-term infants slower than full-terms at processing information
...nts. New research shows this deficit in processing speed is already present in the first year of life and t... Many of the tasks thought to depend on processing speed are the same ones in which many pre-term infants perform poorly when older, including measures of in...Engineering researchers are designing the ultimate fabrics, for casual or military wear
... to cue airbags to deploy -- can detect changes in speed and direction. There are visual sensors that can project images to tiny displays clipped to eye glasses. An e-textile shirt for a blind user might include tiny vibrating motors that would provide cues about approaching objects. In addition to weavin...Brain images from patients with schizophrenia will be shared in first nationwide imaging network
...isabling brain illnesses such as schizophrenia and speed the development of new treatments. The federal grant was awarded to the joint General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) of University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine). The GCRC will coordinate the n...Children in deprived areas three times more likely to be hit by a car
...: Traffic calming combined with a maximum 20mph speed limit should become the norm in residential and ot...nclude pedestrian casualty reduction targets and a speed management strategy. In spite of the importance of traffic speed to the number and severity of road ...Better care and better communication urgently needed
...enhauer. Patient power, said Ms Kathy Redmond, can speed up access to innovative cancer treatments and increase research funding. Ms Redmond, an oncology nurse and health care consultant from Milan, Italy, went on to explain that patients can lobby governments for improvements in cancer services. Increas...A quick-change artist: Tiny protein folds faster than any other
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The world speed record for protein folding apparently goes to an u...lly important and very exciting." He said it could speed up biologists' efforts to simulate the protein-folding process, which could lead to better drugs and...Doppler-guided fluid administration during surgery improves outcome
...technology appears to reduce hospital stays and to speed patient recovery. Additionally, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers, these patients experience less postoperative nausea and vomiting and are able to eat solid foods much earlier. The researchers say that by not allowing fluid lev...'Slice' scanner latest advance in early detection of heart disease
... to detect up to 16 images at once, with increased speed and accuracy. Nieman and colleagues compared the latest 16-slice scanner to conventional angiography. They performed MSCT and then angiography on 59 patients with suspected heart disease. The patients, 53 of whom were male, were between ages 4670. ...Fred Hutchinson receives $12.7 million to lead prostate-cancer consortium
...laboration between basic and applied scientists to speed the testing of new approaches to the prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment of a variety of cancers. Other recipients of prostate SPORE funding this year are Harvard University and the University of California at Los Angeles....Mayo Clinic Cancer Center receives SPORE grant for lymphoma cancer research from NCI
... in 1992 to promote interdisciplinary research and speed basic research findings from the laboratory to applied settings involving patients and populations. The goal of the program is to bring into clinical care novel ideas that have the potential to reduce cancer incidence and mortality, improve survival ......in 1998, all study participants were riding at low speed when something occurred to make them lose control of their bicycle and fall. The front wheel rotated into a plane perpendicular to the child's body. The child landed on the end of the handlebar, resulting in serious abdominal or pelvic organ injurie...