Six organizations vie for INFORMS 'science of better' innovation prize
...lls expressive competition. Combinatorial auctions let bidders - in this case, suppliers - bid on bundles of items, thus allowing them to consider complimentary and substitute items. P&G and its partners used CombineNet's ClearBox, enabling bidders to use discount schedules and capacity constraints, and ...Easing the anxiety of pregnancy after miscarriage
...k you are, too.' I started crying because I hadn't let myself think that at all." Ct-Arsenault's research addresses several concerns: the primary emotions experienced by these women; the degree of personhood assigned by the mother to a lost fetus; the amount of anxiety experienced in a current pregnanc...Louder neurons form more connections, Stanford research shows
...ment," Smith said. "These are the connections that let us think and fight and love."...Monoclonal antibody cures West Nile virus-infected mice
...odified a yeast-based screening system. The system let them test individual antibodies for their ability to bind to many versions of the E protein, each with slight alterations. By analyzing the changes in the versions of the protein that antibodies had difficulty binding to, they isolated first a region......t 3 p.m. for a walk, you will show up so you don't let them down," Dr. Cousins said. The study's findings appear in the May, 2005 journal Psychology of Sport & Exercise. While self-talk strategies occurred among 88 per cent of those surveyed, a key strategy used by active people was to take the less talk...Immune system lab model overcomes ethical limits on human hematopoietic stem cells studies
...tions in humans. Our new laboratory model will now let researchers around the world do many important experiments that will provide valuable insights into how the immune system works and how to increase the success rate of HSC transplantation." "Because this new humanized mouse model will permit studies ...Breast CT reaches clinical testing: May improve on mammography
...ng and Bioengineering. "Of course, we are going to let the science dictate where we go with this," Boone said, "but if all goes well, breast CT may be the breast cancer screening technology of the future." Boone, a medical physicist who holds six scientific patents, has served as a consultant to the Nat...Researchers largely at fault for health risk studies that influence and confuse the public
...c can't be expected to understand these questions, let alone know the answers. Yet, ultimately, they are the ones who are most affected by journal articles that include words like 'risk' that even some of us working in research are not accurately defining," David J. Kupfer, M.D., the Thomas P. Detre Prof...Mayo Clinic creates 'Office of the Future'
... used at home or in school. The see-through panels let in the light and allow a person to stay visually connected with the rest of the room. How many calories will the walking desk burn? Using the desk at 1 mph will burn about 100 calories per hour. So, walk-working from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. burns 800 extra ...Survey of academic medical centers' standards for clinical-trial agreements with industry
...mum review period. Two thirds of the schools would let sponsors prohibit investigators from discussing ongoing clinical trials, but the same proportion would disallow this prohibition once the trial was over. On other issues, there was wide divergence in medical schools' standards. Asked whether or not...Study recommends new guidelines for air bag safety in children
...nephew wants to sit in the front seat now, I won't let him," said Newgard....Newly published summer camp health guideline advises parents, camp directors
...nd list of any medications that campers use -- and let children have immediate access to emergency drugs for asthma and allergies. And parents shouldn't see camp as a time to give kids a "holiday" from drugs for behavior issues or mental health issues. Even homesickness, a common psychological malady fo...Mutation in mouse circulatory gene mimics a form of congenital heart disease
...ays Parmacek. "Understanding how MRTF-B works will let us see how this critical junction in the development of the circulatory system regulates how tissues unfold downstream."...Veterans of first Gulf War have more chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia
...veterans who have never even left their home city, let alone the country, scientists are unsure what factors in the Gulf War combat theater might explain the increased risk of these conditions in veterans. "We also don't know of anything special in regard to how to treat Gulf War-deployed veterans with t...New base for North American cancer screening pioneers
... much I have been damaged'. "This development will let people know how sun damaged their skin is and the preventative steps that can be taken to reduce future risk." Dr Birch-Machin is also working with Newcastle University researchers on the next generation of sunscreens to protect DNA from sun damage. ...Georgetown cancer researchers develop high throughput method
... as well as other human disorders, because it will let scientists discover and then detect unique biomarkers of disease in patients," says Hallgeir Rui, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of oncology at Georgetown and principal investigator of the study. Rui and the study's first author, postdoctoral resea...Most primary care physicians believe annual physical examinations are valuable
... outcomes in ways we might not even imagine. First let us study it, before we abandon it on the basis of there being no evidence in support of it. It is still part of our culture, as demonstrated by the nice work of Prochazka et al and others. We need to understand why."...Could reality TV save academic medicine?
...f change is going to happen, everyone will have to let go of preconceived notions. "If academic medicine is to remain a leading player in the business of health, it has to do better," concludes one author....OHSU researchers help develop portable device to assist those combating balance disorders
...lt. When activated, subjects receive audio cues to let them know how their body is balancing. "Different tones and intensities tell subjects when they are leaning outside of their central safe zone," explains Marco Dozza, M.E., a graduate student in bioengineering at the University of Bologna who spent ...... most effective sunscreens currently on the market let through enough UV to allow for adequate vitamin D formation."Periodontal diseases are bacterial infections that, if left untreated, may cause damage to the bone and even tooth loss. A number of infectious diseases have been linked with low levels of...