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...re recorded. The doctor then analyzes the various wave patterns and determines whether they are abnormal. "Although esophageal manometry has been around for at least two decades, most gastroenterologists continue to see it in somewhat mystical terms. This is because few practitioners are sufficiently tr...UF 'smart home' demonstrates concept of automated elderly help and care
... just about to reach their 60s, that spells a huge wave of assistive care needs -- and ballooning costs -- in the next two decades and beyond, he said. "The real problem for how we're spending health-care dollars is going to occur in 20 years, but many people will need assistive care before then," he sa...Procedure cures atrial fibrillation
...eas of disorganized electrical activity. The radio wave "zap" heats the target areas of tissue, a process called ablation, but spares nearby tissue. The catheters that record electrical signals in the tissue and deliver the radiofrequency energy are carefully inserted through the groin of a sedated patie...Scientists map maturation of the human brain
...hat later onset than autism, shows a back to front wave of gray matter loss, whereas later onset (the more typical form) schizophrenia seems to be more strongly associated with later maturing temporal and frontal regions. Thus the gray matter loss seen in schizophrenia could, at least in part, be an exagg...President names eight elite scientists and engineers to receive National Medals of Science
... University is being honored for his work in shock wave theory and other cross-disciplinary fields in mathematical physics. John I. Brauman of Stanford University will receive the award in chemistry. Three other honorees in the physical sciences include W. Jason Morgan of Princeton University, Richard ...Patient simulator improves performance of clinical trial coordinators
...ully believe that simulation training could be the wave of the future, especially after seeing the results of this study," Taekman said. "The current approach to training coordinators fails to take advantage of adult learning theory, which has shown that interactivity is a superior method for teaching med...Scientists discover overweight, obesity jump during period between adolescence, adulthood
...cross the nation during the second data collection wave of the study and then again measured the heights and weights of those same teens five years later when they were ages 18 to 26 during the project's third wave. The team determined obesity among the subjects using age and sex-specific criteria from th...Forgiveness linked to spinal cord injury rehab
...plegia) were included in the analysis of the first wave of data. Correlational analyses indicated the following: FS and FO to LS (r=.258) and education (r=.200), FS to HB (r=.196) and tetraplegia (r=.259), and FO to H (r=.203) and AI (r=.244). Simultaneous examinations of FS and FO in hierarchical regre...Wavefront LASIK advances refractive surgery
...avefrontLASIK consists of a sensor and a laser. A wave of light from a laser beam is sent through the eye...or measures the irregularities at the front of the wave of light as it emerges from the eye. This produces a precise three-dimensional map of the eye's visu...Sudden cardiac death: New risk factor first identified in Illinois family by SLU cardiologist
...se. Electrocardiograms, or ECGs, can track impulse wave patterns and determine the length of time between the impulses. Electrical impulses within the ventricles of the heart are designated by the letters "QT." A QT interval can indicate how effectively the heart is contracting in its lower chambers and h...Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center study shows retinoids kill childhood brain tumor cells
...mmediately obvious to us was that there was a huge wave of cell death." The researchers also found that mice transplanted with medulloblastoma tumors that were treated with retinoids developed tumors that were about a third of the size as those that grew on untreated mice. To identify genes responsible fo......fession and offer them help in managing this tidal wave of competing feelings." Dr. Kasman recently accepted dual appointments at Georgetown University Medical Center in the department of internal medicine and the Center for Clinical Bioethics. She conducted this research while serving as an ambulatory......d source of competition in the international shock wave community. A highlight of the conference will be a symposium on the properties of fluid hydrogen at very high pressures and temperatures. Hydrogen is the simplest and most abundant atom in the universe. Fusion of hydrogen (or its isotope deuterium, k...9/11 boosted trust in government, temporary distress, research shows
... involved analyzing data gathered during the third wave of interviews for the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Nicknamed "Add Health," the research is a continuing long-term study of important influences on adolescents' lives. Wave I of the project, which involved 90-minute confidential i...Stiffness of aorta predicts stroke deaths in hypertensive patients
...s was gauged by measuring how long it took a pulse wave to move from the heart to other parts of the body (pulse wave velocity or PWV). Stiffer arteries had higher PWV numbers. There were 157 deaths, including 25 fro...Schizophrenia drugs linked to increased risk of heart attack
...e QT interval is defined as the time between the Q wave (when the heart's ventricles contract) and T wave (when the ventricles relax again). While QT prolongation is often used as a surrogate marker of a dr...Tiny nerves from the ribs may restore leg movement in spinal cord injury
... for spinal cord injury. The research is part of a wave of studies challenging the conventional wisdom that severed nerves in the spinal cord are nearly impossible to regenerate. The study appears in the October issue of the Journal of Neurotrauma. Dr. Vernon Lin, professor of physical medicine at UCI and...Caregiving for spouse prompts women to retire earlier
...yees and retirees, ages 50 to 72, from the 1994-95 wave of the Cornell Retirement and Well-Being Study. The sample was randomly selected from six large employers in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas of upstate New York. The study is published in the October issue on care and kinship of The Journal ...In blood pressure reduction, below standard is good
... used a measure of vascular stiffness called pulse wave velocity (PWV) to determine if lowering blood pres...then dividing that by the time it takes a pressure wave to travel between the two locations. It's expressed as centimeters per second (cm/s)."When treating......lled radiofrequency ablation because it uses radio wave energy to heat the tumor and "ablate," or destroy it, the procedure has been used for nearly a decade to treat certain irregular heartbeats. Now, a handful of radiologists in North Carolina and nationwide are using RFA to treat primary tumors and met...