Procedure cures atrial fibrillation
...e new paper and presentations will help spread the word about the procedure. "I hope that patients and their treating physicians will become aware of the promise that catheter ablation holds, and that more centers will adopt the techniques," he says. "The more patients we can help, the better."...Researchers find additional families with gene linked to gout and kidney failure
...recise information. So Bleyer is trying to get the word out to fellow nephrologists, to other physicians and the general public to look for the disease in people with gout. Bleyer is also hoping that the discovery will lead to intensive research on how the defective gene leads to kidney failure, which i...Injured workers dissatisfied with compensation system
... to live with a lack of respect and trust in their word and that was very depressing for them," says principal investigator Bonnie Kirsh, who co-authored the study with fellow U of T occupational therapy professor Pat McKee. "We must listen to what workers need and support and respect them in their recove...UCF clinic diagnoses rare Foreign Accent Syndrome
...pecially for her. He checked her ability to change word stress patterns and accentuation by having her pronounce sentences like, "I wanted to record the record onto a cassette tape." He also had her repeat words stressing the wrong syllable in sentences like, "Put the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLABle." The...Helping teachers use keys to vocabulary building
...omley has examined mainly teach vocabulary through word lists, which teachers cover through study and dril...," she said. "But if I were going to teach you the word 'intercollegiate,' I would think aloud for you, by telling you how I figure out and remember what it...Natural scenes calm drivers more than city views, study finds
...ance for frustration, which involved a set of four word puzzles: anagrams (scrambled words) that they were told to unscramble to form a word. However, some of the anagrams were unsolvable. The time people spend on the unsolvable anagrams serves as a measure of frustration, Cackowski said. High levels of f...fMRI depicts multisensory dysfunction in people with dyslexia
...arning disability characterized by difficulty with word recognition. Up to 8 percent of American elementary school children may have the reading disorder, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. While the underlying neurological basis for dyslexia is still unclear, previous studies have show...Using fMRI technology to understand hyperlexia
...read dictionaries in his twos, but spoke his first word at age three and a half. "This advanced reading ability, which would likely surprise any parent, is even more extraordinary given that many of these children begin reading before mastering spoken language, and sometimes before speaking at all," sai...'Science' showcases research on forgetting
...gum. Then they were given the first member of each word pair and asked either to think of the second word,...nderson tested the students' memory for all of the word pairs and confirmed that suppressing awareness of unwanted memories resulted in memory inhibition, r...Melatonin may have an effect on nocturnal blood pressure
...okesperson and high blood pressure expert, added a word of caution about the study findings: "This report showing a blood pressure-lowering effect of melatonin use is of interest primarily at a theoretical or research level. Larger studies certainly would be needed prior to recommending this approach to...Crystal methamphetamine use increases HIV risk
...ntially the most serious side effect." Getting the word out to young people about the risks of meth use may be difficult. "I really think there's a lack of information about the catastrophic risks of methamphetamine use, particularly in young MSMs," said Dr. Urbina, especially since adolescents and young ......ical Toxicology told New Scientist. To spread the word about the error, Steven Karch, a pathologist at the San Francisco Medical Examiner's office set up an ad hoc committee of senior forensic toxicologists and pathologists, including Goldberger, at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences conference in...Prototype system developed by Wright State computer engineer allows blind to 'see'
...ing eye research for 20 years. Tyflos , the Greek word for blind, is the name of the portable, wearable device Bourbakis has developed. The partnering project at ASU is called iLearn. A tiny camera is mounted to glasses and connected by a thin wire to a modified lap-top computer the individual carries on...Aha! Cognitive neuroscientists reveal creative brain processes
...his colleagues gave study participants a series of word problems to solve. Each problem presented three wo...and master, and asked participants to think of one word that would form a compound word or phrase for each of the words. (The answer? Post.) In addition to ...New word for on-the-job health problem: 'presenteeism'
...tension to arthritis. Economists have coined a new word to describe the productivity-loss problem: presenteeism. Researchers at the Cornell University Institute for Health and Productivity Studies (IHPS) and the health-information firm Medstat estimate that companies' on-the-job productivity losses from p...Apraxia of speech in children is focus of new OHSU grant
...mple, when a child with apraxia of speech says the word 'ladder,' the duration of the 'ae' and 'er' sounds may be nearly equal with both having strong energy, rather than just the first syllable. "We hope to develop a diagnostic tool for childhood apraxia of speech by automating existing measurements of t...Pain resource nurses at Fox Chase Cancer Center seen as educators and advocates for a change
...ive strategies for educating fellow nurses include word games and eye-catching informational posters. "Through the implementation of more Pain Resource Nurse programs such as the one at Fox Chase, we can have numbers like this nationwide while improving the patient's quality of life," concluded MacDonal...Tackling medical schools' informal curriculum
...and students and patients. "Competence is the buzz word in medical education today, but few medical schools actually do anything to teach or assess it in the full sense. At our school we are hoping to make our competency-based curriculum (the formal curriculum) such an integral part of our culture that i...Read my lips: UCL launches centre for human communication
.... She continues: "Ask the average Brit to say the word 'tall' in Cantonese, and they may end up threatening you by mistake. The equivalent Cantonese word, which sounds like "go", has two different pronunciations which give two different meanings: 'tall', with a high pitch, but 'to sue' with a mid-level p......out meaning from sounds, the researchers showed it word spellings. Then, they asked it to read a variety of words and figure out what they meant. The model could use sounds, visual patterns or a combination of both. "The beauty of the model is that you can test out many different ways of teaching how to ...