UW, Siemens Unveil New Panoramic Ultrasound Imaging Application Using Programmable Technology
...ton businesses anduniversities. The Siemens and UW teams -- consisting of more than 30clinicians, engineers, scientists and students -- began their collaborationin 1992. Several key technology patents have been issued to both the UW andSiemens during the collaboration. Siemens funded the UW research with $...Survey Finds Increasing Popularity Of Acute Stroke Teams In U.S. Hospitals
...it comes to emergencies. When "code blue" teams rush to someone having a heart attack, their goali...aples for years; however, the emergence of similar teams tohelp patients suffering from an equally deadly problem -- stroke -- is only anemerging phenomenon....Survey Finds Acute Stroke Teams Gaining Prevalence
...lation. Researchers examined acute stroke teams at 47 medical centers andacademic centers. Slight...fic data that prove they are cost-effective,stroke teams certainly do not seem to create a large financial burden," saysMark Alberts, M.D., associate profess...Athletes, Fraternity Men Are Top Drinkers
...e Health. Men on intercollegiate sports teams consume 10 alcoholic drinks a week, or 52 percent ...45 percent of males not on intercollegiate sports teams reported that they binge drink. (Binging is defined as consuming five or more drinks in one sitting...About The Care Of Patients Before They Are Admitted To Intensive Care
...at one solution may be to create medical emergency teams who respond pre-emptively to airway, breathing or ...Alternatively, they suggest that medical emergency teams should be formed and that their role should be educational as well as troubleshooting. Contact: Dr......ille Pasteur Institute), in collaboration with the teams headedby Jacques Maclouf (INSERM 348, directed by Sylviane Levy-Toledano) and AlainTedgui (INSERM 141, directed by Bernard Levy), have now discovered why :fibrates have an anti-inflammatory effect on vessel walls. Fibrates, a class of drugs that redu...Study Shows Potential For Quelling AIDS Nerve Pain
...t Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City and research teams at 17 sitesacross the country. The study was funded by grants from the National Institute ofNeurological Disorders and Stroke (for grantholder David Clifford, M.D.) and bythe National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. It is under ......ountries, and has set up special supply management teams in St. Kitts,Antigua, the Dominican Republic and Haiti to coordinate relief supplies, saidPAHO's Dr. Claude de Ville. Hurricane Georges, a Category III storm with windsover 100 mph, caused over 100 deaths and hundreds of millions of dollars inmajor d...Setbacks To Health Progress In Central America
...ith the ministries of health in order to arm these teams with theminimum primary care equipment to take care of the three types of populationmentioned." "We are engaged in the repair of the most critical hospital services of certaincomplexity, such as radiology, laboratory, and surgery. In Honduras and El...Now Is Time To Design Brain-Saving Drugs Specifically For Children, UCSF Neurologist Says
...o says. "It will take the combined efforts of many teams ofinvestigators throughout the world, studying genes, cells, animals and humans,to provide the basis for new treatments specifically for children." Ferriero is director of the National Institutes of Health funded Neonatal BrainDisorders Center at UCS...Management Academy To Boost Training For Local, State Public Health Departments
...s. The academy's work will begin this summer when teams of professionals from stateand local public health departments come to Chapel Hill for a one-week programcovering financial management, policy development, civic entrepreneurship, humanresources and strategic management. After returning home, they wi......ce is that we can bring together multidisciplinary teams in institutionsof excellence with a common interest in developing strategies to cure braintumors," Prados said. "Within this consortium are representatives of all the disciplines that areimportant in conducting this type of research, all tightly foc...NIAID Renews Funding For Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study
...o address this question, the MACS brought together teams ofvirologists, immunologists and epidemiologists. "We knew we had to conduct these studies under the same roof with the samepatients at the same time," says Dr. Dieffenbach. "The MACS really took thelead in organizing combined studies that united th...Students Show Restraint Could Cut School Bus Injuries
...opkins projects completed thisyear byundergraduate teams in the university's Whiting School of Engineering's DesignProject coursetaught by Andrew F. Conn, a Johns Hopkins graduate with more than 25 years ofexperience inpublic and private research and development. Each team of two or three students,working ...New cancer treatment facility opens
...o bring patients the benefits of multidisciplinary teams ofspecialists who are experts in caring for patients with a particular type of cancer. Services and floors at the Laurance S. Rockefeller Outpatient Pavilion are organized by "disease teams" rather than by thetraditional surgical or medical outpatie...First woman commanding general for health care in Pacific speaks on Capitol Hill about Tele-Health
...nd the responsibilities involve multi-disciplinary teams to support publicand private sector customers, partners and stakeholders in a geographicallycomplex patient care environment in the Pacific," she concluded. Goals of the Hui are to help clinicians assess, diagnose and treat patients inthe Pacific; su......ion are developed with little if any public input, teams of sitevisitors are notoriously uneven in their evaluations, and considerable human,physical, and financial resources are consumed by the accreditation process." In the report, the task force identified four major issues in accreditation: the n...New links found between an 'iron' gene mutation and increased risk for heart attack and stroke
...merican Heart Association, twoindependent research teams found that people with an iron-regulating mutation (adefect) had a much higher risk of having and dying from a heart attack. Theresearch builds on earlier studies that have shown that individuals withelevated levels of iron are at higher risk for hea...HIV's deep pocket may reveal vulnerability
...d Harvard University. In1997, independent research teams led by HHMI investigators <AHREF="http://www.hhmi.org/science/strucbio/wiley.htm">Don Wiley , also ofChildren's Hospital and Harvard University, and <AHREF="http://www.hhmi.org/science/cellbio/kim.htm">Peter Kim at theWhitehead Insti...Global prevention, funding and accountability debated in fight against HIV/AIDS
...and South Africa using multidisciplinary AIDS care teams to improve HIV/AIDScare in resource poor settings. Mark Ahn, Ph.D., Bristol-Meyers Squibb,described the growing importance of public-private sector partnerships insolving public health issues, including his company's Secure the Future TM response ...