A much-needed shot in the arm for HIV vaccine development
...uickly followed up with a set of milestones, and a transparent process by which successes and failures will be measured." ...A new service from the European Patent Office
... make patent information in the public domain more transparent and easier to access, which in turn will help stimulate innovation in the European economy. Available free of charge via www.epoline.org , Register Plus is not restricted to patent professionals: anyone can use it - anytime, anywhere - to retrieve t...Updated press release to October 2004 Cochrane Review
...r journal publishing, the Collaboration's open and transparent process ensures that all Cochrane reviews are available for real-time correction, providing experts and healthcare consumers alike with the opportunity to give their input. Crucially, this process also allows researchers and others to inform review ...Medical negligence system is 'secretive, unaccountable and unregulated'
...led into question, the profession must make itself transparent to restore the faith of its medical colleagues and ensure the protection of the public, concludes Mr Bishop....Sealing corneal incisions with a drop of chemistry, BU researchers develop gel for cataract surgery
...try at Boston University, has produced an elastic, transparent gel that sets so fast and adheres so surely to the... suturing. The team noted, too, that the gels are transparent and have a refractive index similar to that of the human cornea (thus it will not interfere with lig...Glue-like polymer could replace sutures used for cataract surgery
...rease with the growth in the aging population. The transparent hydrogel is made of special polymer materials whic...the current study, he and his associates crafted a transparent liquid hydrogel with optical properties similar to a human cornea. Cataracts are characterized by t...Physics World Digest August 2004: Eye surgery sharpens up
...n for surgeons, who need to alter permanently this transparent membrane to ensure that light is sharply focused on the retina. The information is currently obtained by reflecting a narrow strip of light that is shone into the patient's eye. The new technique, developed by Jos Almeida, Sandra Franco and colleague...Physicians, patients must work together on new electronic relationships
...th care professionals to work together to ensure a transparent system that enables them to share knowledge, responsibility and decision-making more equally, Tom Delbanco, M.D., and Daniel Z. Sands, M.D., M.P.H. write in the April 22 edition. "Patients will soon have full and continuous access to all notes in the...Long term risks of medical radiation often ignored
...atients should be required to sign an explicit and transparent informed consent form for each radiological examination. This would help reduce pressure from patients for redundant examinations. Journals should also encourage reporting of radiation doses in papers. The current culture has taught patients that the...7-month-old is youngest recipient of artificial corneal transplant
...ue is removed when the device was implanted, and a transparent sheet made from amniotic membrane was used to protect Lukas' eye and allow light in. ...Foot and mouth report recommends major changes to the lamb supply chain
...re implemented, it could result in a shorter, more transparent and customer focused chain, aided by a two-way information flow between the fat lamb chain members." The report also found that specialist hauliers provide the best form of animal transportation, especially as recent legislation demands that every ve...Fluorine chemists take their expertise to the sunshine state
... 5p.m. New technology developments (Design of transparent fluoropolymer photoresists for semiconductor manufacture at 157 nanometers) The latest information on the development of new materials for the next generation of smaller and faster computer chips will be presented. (Andrew E. Feiring, DuPont, Centr...D.C. surveillance system considered a model for early disease detection
...g as part of their routine patient work-up. "It is transparent to the clinician," they say. The authors note that any system designed to detect disease outbreaks has to balance timeliness of reporting against the quality of the data. It should be sensitive enough to detect significant clusters of diseases while ...FINAL ALERT: RPB Science Writers Seminar in Eye Research to be held in Washington, DC Sept. 22-25
... at work in living animals (and patients), via the transparent cornea, investigators now hope to learn enough to speed the evolution of more effective therapies against these devastating ills. RETRAINING THE RETINA. Confronted with decreasing central vision -- and the diminished capacity to manage such eve...Sandia helps public health officials with anti-terror 'decision analysis' tool
...l to decision-makers with an underlying - but user transparent - core based on the latest technical knowledge. While Sandia/CA researchers were examining the many dimensions and decisions that are fundamental during a biological attack, the events of September 2001 - and the subsequent anthrax scare - added a se...Screening the controversy continues
...on, cure and care has been made very effective and transparent and this may have nourished these results." He concluded that one direct effect of the discussion about the controversial report was that the media were now trying to give more balanced reports. "We know mammograms are not perfect, but they are curre...Glow-in-the-dark zebrafish helping Jefferson scientists uncover cholesterol genes
...hem to watch, biochemically speaking, digestion in transparent zebrafish embryos. The embryos are helping the scientists find genes that regulate lipid processing. By identifying the genes behind lipid metabolism, scientists are hoping to establish the basis for new and improved cholesterol-controlling drugs. D...Researchers take steps to growing replacement blood vessels
... grow in grooves carved in the surface of a soft transparent gel in the laboratory. The researchers' ultimate plan is to grow endothelial cells inside or on the surface of silicon molds resembling capillaries. If the cells co...MGH researchers identify angiogenesis inhibitor in gallbladder cancer
...ngiogenesis promoter (bFGF) into cranial windows - transparent compartmentsplaced into the brain - in both groups of mice, as well as in a control groupwith no implanted tumors. In mice with tumors in their gallbladder, growth ofblood vessels in the cranial windows was significantly less than seen in micewith ...... without letting noisein. This is done by adding a transparent noise shielding sheet, such asPlexiglas or glass, and cutting away a portion of the exterior fabric. A shadecan then be added to this window and raised or lowered when desired. Though initially designed with nursing homes in mind, Quiet Curtains ha...