Computerized prescription system reduces errors caused by bad handwriting
...nter, including their offices, making it easier to transmit orders if they get paged. "Eventually, we hope to make this available at remote locations so care givers can use POE at home, too," Brill said. "The system markedly reduces the need for telephone orders from the doctor to the nurse, which saves tim...OHSU researchers discover new synapses in brain
...ve fibers. This insulation allows nerve fibers to transmit signals at high speed, like the signals from the s...ork has shown that glutamate, the chemical used to transmit signals at these synapses, can inhibit the development of these cells into the mature, myelin-produc...Patients with social phobia benefit from long-term treatment with sertraline HCl
...urally occurring chemical that nerve cells need to transmit electrical signals between them. Such neurotransmitters and signals play an important role in the brain's chemistry and control of moods, thoughts, feelings and sleep patterns, among other behaviors. Serotonin is critical in regulating the brain's ......e conditions, then to process that information and transmit it via satellite to a computer in his lab, where it will be analyzed and distributed through a network to the National Weather Service, the Office of Emergency Preparedness and the public. Stone is also studying how beaches react after a hurricane, ......e conditions, then to process that information and transmit it via satellite to a computer in his lab, where it is analyzed and distributed through a network to the National Weather Service, the Office of Emergency Preparedness and other important locations. It is the first system of its kind in the U.S. ...Risk map will help predict encephalitis outbreaks
... if the rains began again now, the mosquitoes that transmit the St. Louis encephalitis virus would never catch up. That's why St. Louis encephalitis epidemics are so rare. Mosquitoes, birds and rainfall have to be in perfect synchrony, starting in January, for an epidemic to occur."...UT Southwestern Nobel laureate leads bold project changing way scientists conduct research
...nternet that has a lot of bandwidth and ability to transmit lots of data very quickly." Dr. Rochell Long, a pharmacologist with the NIGMS, said, "Advances in genomics, proteomics and informatics make the timing right for this bold experiment in how science is conducted. Al Gilman's vision is to transform the ...Science, engineering and technology newstips
...r this year. Optical networks use light pulses to transmit data instead of electrons. Most long-distance communications systems already use fiber-optic cable, but the light signals are turned back into electronic signals when they reach routers and switching points. These optical-to-electronic connections ar...One more visit could close demographic gaps in infant immunization efforts
...dervaccinated are susceptible to outbreaks and can transmit disease to others in the community, they say. They also note that this study showed that children living near poverty had coverage levels similar to children living below poverty. It is reasonable to speculate that these children are underinsur...Second patient with multiple sclerosis undergoes groundbreaking surgery at Yale
...ulting lesions make it difficult for the nerves to transmit messages. In the first procedure on March 6, the surgical team harvested Schwann cells from the patients ankle. Animal studies show that Schwann cells can replace the cells that generate the myelin. The second day, the cells were injected i...3D ultrasound telehealth system first commercial test at Indian reservations
...n use a probe to scan a womans lower abdomen, then transmit the images to a specialist by telephone line. A specialist can make a diagnosis using these 3D images even if the patient is hundreds of miles away. Pine Ridge and Rosebud are 350 and 240 miles respectively from Sioux Falls, which houses the states...From sci-fi to reality microendoscopy to diagnose breast cancer?
...od film technicians (who use a single glass rod to transmit an image). Then Guys developed a dilator and a modified lighting system and the result was a microendscope tailor-made for examining the ducts in the breast. Once passed through the tiny openings at the tip of the nipple the endoscope sends back magn...Human rabies often caused by undetected, tiny bat bites
...uals, but they probably did not know bat bites can transmit rabies or perhaps their bites were unrecognized or undetected. Indigenous rabid bats have been reported from every state except Hawaii, according to the article. The most common bats in the United States, the silver-haired and eastern pipistrelle bat...MTCT-Plus makes HIV treatment a reality for poor countries
...5 million women become infected, more than 500,000 transmit the virus to their infants and more than 1.5 million women die each year from AIDS. Groundbreaking progress has been made in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission. However, these programs offer no HIV care for the mothers themselves. The...4% of HIV+ gay men have recent sexually transmitted infection
...ividuals co-infected with HSV-2 are more likely to transmit HIV. In addition, 18 percent of the men had latent or previously treated syphilis. The study looked at 1,110 HIV-infected MSM recruited in San Francisco and New York from AIDS service organizations, gay venues, and public sex environments. They all h...Neural stem cells improve motor function in brain injuries
... and create replacement cells: both neurons, which transmit nerve signals, and glial cells, which serve many essential supportive roles in the nervous system." If stem cells are blank slates, able to become any type of body cells, then neural stem cells (NSCs) are slates with the basics of neurology already w...Combination of HIV/malaria increases complications during pregnancy
...hers with a mild malaria infection less frequently transmit the HIV infection to their children than HIV-infected mothers without malaria. In Kenya, the epidemiologists Annemieke van Eijk and John Ayisi investigated the interaction between HIV and malaria as well as the effect of both infections on mother and...Cholesterol drug could lead to new therapy for multiple sclerosis
... demyelination, disrupts the ability of neurons to transmit signals swiftly to one another. The destruction causes fatigue, disrupts various motor skills and, more subtly, diminishes some cognitive abilities. In later phases of the more progressive forms of the disease, non-inflammatory toxic molecules damage...Tissue-engineered cells transmit electrical signals in animal hearts
...e skeletal muscle cells can establish a pathway to transmit electrical signals from the heart's upper right ch...rt muscle cells use to connect with one another to transmit electrical signals. The team used engineered tissue containing about 70 percent myoblasts and 30 pe...