RIT takes eye-tracking research to next level
...cess information in the classroom. Another project tracks how the human eye perceives high-speed motion on l...or playing racquetball. In other words, the device tracks how eye movements support perception and what people pay attention to in order to gather the informa...'Marital strain' increases women's risk of death, heart disease
...pring Study, a large, ongoing community study that tracks the incidence and prevalence of cardiovascular disease and other social and demographic characteristics such as marital strain in the Framingham, Mass., community. Previous studies have shown a link between levels of marital strain and the health ...Sildenafil effectively treats enlarged hearts, mouse study shows
...ys Kass. "Its effects can be both stopped in their tracks and reversed. Overall, the results provide a better understanding of the biological pathways involved in hypertrophy and heart dilation, leading contributors to heart failure. They suggest possible therapies in the future, including sildenafil, whic...Doctors miss chances to provide diet, exercise counseling to patients at risk of heart disease
...tion, they examined two large databases - one that tracks services provided during visits to office-based physicians and a second that surveys hospital outpatient departments. The databases gave the researchers access to the types of services provided during 20,000 to 45,000 patients visits per year through...Global air pollution map produced by Envisat's SCIAMACHY
...nitrogen dioxide produced by biomass burning. Ship tracks are visible in some locations: look at the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean between the southern tip of India and Indonesia. The smoke stacks of ships crossing these routes send a large amount of NO2 into the troposphere. This map is average out across ...Taking apart a hurricane: Multi-sensor Envisat sees through Frances
...nt. Several hurricanes have intensified when their tracks pass over eddies or other masses of warm water with high TCHP values. For example, in 1995 Hurricane Opal suddenly intensified in the Gulf of Mexico after passing over a warm ring with TCHP values of up to six times the threshold to sustain a tropic...Physics World Digest August 2004: Eye surgery sharpens up
...; e-mail r.a.l.jones@sheffield.ac.uk ) Physicist tracks down ancient temple A Jewish physicist born in Scotland controversially claims to have solved a problem that has puzzled archaeologists and scholars for centuries by locating the site of the Second Temple in the Old City of Jerusalem. Asher Kaufman,...St. Jude helps South American community achieve improved survival rates for leukemia
... The NACC also operates parent support groups and tracks patients so they can be contacted within 24 hours of missing a clinic visit. "The NACC helped to reduce the possibility of parents missing their child's treatment appointment or abandoning the treatment entirely," said Scott Howard, M.D., M.S., direc...Carnegie Mellon University neurobiologist Justin Crowley receives Searle Scholar Award
...i-photon laser-scanning microscopy. This technique tracks fluorescently labeled neurons over hours, days or weeks. Using multi-photon laser-scanning microscopy, Crowley can examine the structure and function of living neurons in real time as they develop and change. This time-lapse imaging represents a sign...Detecting vitamin B12 deficiency prevents anaemia and memory loss
...ect pioneered a unique B12 detection system, which tracks concentrations of holotc (short for holo-transcobalamin), a biologically active complex of the vitamin plus a carrier protein. Although the holotc complex carries only 20% of the body's vitamin B12, the other 80% is not nearly as significant since it...UMHS study finds surgery safer at teaching hospitals
...d 1997 from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, which tracks 20 percent of all hospital discharges in the United States. Death rates overall for all three procedures were under 10 percent. But patients undergoing pancreatic resections at non-teaching hospitals were more than twice as likely to die following ...Distance to hospital affects heart attack survival
...heart attacks, or myocardial infarction (MI), only tracks patients in hospitals, O'Neill sought to review the outcome of heart attack victims who do not get to a hospital promptly. Patients who live farther from medical facilities have been under-sampled, he says, because data on their MIs and deaths are us...World Summit on the Information Society
... Europe's latest Earth observation satellite, that tracks and monitors the environment, including global climate change World Cultural Heritage ESA carries out a number of activities in support of the UN World Heritage Convention including monitoring national parks, wetlands and architectonic sites, and th...Foundation for adult body weight may be laid during adolescence
...dy. "The main findings of this study were that BMI tracks significantly from adolescence into adulthood and that the subjects own BMI during adolescence, father's BMI, and LTPA and smoking in adulthood were strong predictors of adult BMI," the researchers write. "Smoking cessation between adolescence and a...Brain signals from the paralyzed or injured captured by computer
...motor activities such as walking. A digital camera tracks the position of the leg, and a mathematical analysis relates the sensory activity to leg movement. The investigators found that fewer than 10 neurons are needed to accurately predict the path of the leg. This finding is encouraging because it suggest...Glucowatch Biographer reported to improve diabetes control in children
...itoring for up to 13 hours. It detects trends and tracks patterns in patient glucose levels. The GlucoWatch G2 Biographer is available in the United States (by prescription only) and in the United Kingdom. The Biographer is not intended to replace the common "finger-stick" testing method, but is indicat...NPSF Patient Safety Congress looks at safety from nine points of view
...atients. The Congress will feature educational tracks onemployers/workforce, health plan, hospitals & nursing, media, medicalgroups and ambulatory care, NPSF research, partnering with patient &families, and pharmaceutical & device manufacturers. A ninth track oninformation technology includes sessions o...Surgeon General, columnist George F. Will, and McLaughlin Group Take on nations health care issues
...l sessions, 4 keynote presentations, 8 independent tracks and 12 workshops led by the industry's top speaker...trends in managed health care. Specialize program tracks include Health Plan Executives, Hospital and Health System Executives, Case Management/ACCM Annual M...OHSU receives $7.8 million NIH grant to develop first ultrasound to also deliver heart treatment
...ip. The device will include Doppler imaging, which tracks the movement of the heart's walls -- a vital tool in determining where an abnormal heart rhythm originates so those tissues can be removed as precisely as possible without damaging surrounding cells. All three devices will feature this type of imagin...Study suggests a possible link between high-starch diet and pancreatic cancer
...dy, a project at Brigham and Women's Hospital that tracks health information on female nurses across the country. The researchers reviewed the dietary records of nearly 89,000 nurses to measure their intake of sucrose (the type of sugar in candy), fructose (the sugar in fruit juices and honey) and carbohydr...