MacArthur Fellowships of $500,000 awarded for genius in reducing cervical and breast cancer
...hnology, geology, urban revitalization, economics, computer science, arts, music, and literature. Reporters covering the story MUST abide by the September 20 embargo, the date for the official Fellows announcement. Here is the password and user ID to access the Fellows website which will be live on Frida...Detecting Alzheimer's in the eye, lifting fingerprints without touching the surface
... similar to asunglass lens, a digital camera and a computer to process theacquired data, researchers can detec...nt years.Driving this increase in realism has been computer graphics (CG)techniques for simulating how light travels within a scene and howit reflects from surf...Output of e-Science project helps GSK speed up drug discovery
...ook for IT technologies that chemists, rather than computer scientists, could use to retrieve and analyse data rapidly. "We wanted to match the cycle of change and hand control of the decision-making process back to the scientists," he says. InforSense KDE, an output of Discovery Net, met these two challenges...Orlando meeting highlights work about making systems, tools, and products safe and easy to use
...at the differences between older and younger adult computer users. Nair and associates at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine demonstrate that even after long-term usage, older adults still feel they have no better ability to control the technology. ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN Impact of Environmental ...Psychologists find more sensitive tests for predicting Alzheimer's as well as changes in cognition
...rticipants read aloud words briefly presented on a computer screen. To test implicit memory, experimenters repeated some words to see whether "priming" took place, which would help participants read those words faster. The researchers also gave a Visual Association Test, which cued participants to recall si...Simulator can help stroke patients drive again
...n in front of them. Mistakes are monitored both by computer and an observing evaluator. Patients using simulator training were more likely both to pass the driver's test and to retain the skill level achieved in training. The possibilities to apply simulator training to other areas are endless, Dr. Akinwuntan...From aircraft aerodynamics to improved heart implants
... cases and in less than two days in all cases. "As computer processing power increases we estimate that within two years the analysis could probably be performed in two to three hours," Lagasco says. "That compares with the weeks or months it can take to obtain results from using traditional PIV systems." Hav...Optical imaging added to ultrasound improves breast cancer diagnosis
... Zhu, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Connecticut in St...mages and optical data were then processed using a computer algorithm. "The combination of the two technologies is key," said Dr. Zhu. "Ultrasound locates the ...Cars, computer chips and heart attacks?
...- The same philosophy used to make better cars and computer chips can also save the lives of heart attack patients, a new study finds. In fact, 26 percent fewer patients died in the first year after their heart attack when hospitals used quality-improvement tactics to prevent crucial heart-care steps from "sl...New book explains age-old mystery of geometrical illusions
...o take people who deeply understand statistics and computer models of neural systems to develop a working theory of how the properties of neurons and anatomical connections are related to the end product of vision." Purves said he hopes that the latest book that Catherine Howe and he have written, along with ...A new analysis of a standard brain test may help predict dementia
...ology of Aging, the researchers demonstrate that a computer analysis of the EEG, which measures the brain's electrical activity, accurately predicted healthy people in their 60s and 70s who would develop dementia over the next 7 to 10 years. It also identified individuals who would remain virtually unchanged ...International study finds one in five heart patients continue to smoke
...ual risk could now be worked out via HeartScore a computer program launched recently by the European Society of Cardiology, aiming at preventing CVD (primary prevention). The program can also calculate how much a person can change his or her risk of fatal CVD within 10 years by stopping smoking. Another sur...UC Santa Barbara named to National Cancer Institute's multi-center nanotechnology collaboration
...er," said Evelyn Hu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and materials, and Co-Director of the California NanoSystems Institute. The potential of nanotech-based therapeutic delivery systems to enhance the efficacy of cancer treatments is enormous, but such innovation requires innovative inter-...Computers can teach patients about screening for cancer
... N.C. Even patients with minimal education and no computer skills can be successfully educated about health t...Medicine, the study found that patients who used a computer to learn about a screening test for colon cancer were just as knowledgeable about the topic as patie...ECG transmission by cell phone speeds heart attack treatment
...ECG and that the emergency room be equipped with a computer station to receive ECG data, convert it to a digital tracing, and generate a hard-copy print-out. In addition, to ensure a rapid response, Providence Hospital requires that cath lab staff either live within 30 minutes of the hospital or remain at th...CDC awards UGA researchers $900,000 grant to study teen behaviors in high school
...quire that: the high school students to complete a computer survey every spring for the next three years; teachers complete a standardized and nationally-normed student behavioral rating; data be collected on student attendance, standardized test scores and discipline records; interviews be conducted with stu...Ideal doses of IMRT defined to reduce treatment side effects for head and neck cancer
...tients that is processed and analyzed by a complex computer system to produce the ideal radiation dose distribution for that patient....Interactive websites can help manage chronic diseases
...n non-users. The UCL paper reviewed studies on how computer programs known as Interactive Health Communication Applications (IHCAs) affect people with chronic disease. IHCAs are computer-based information sources combined with one or more additional services, such as an on-line support group, chat room or tai...Nanoscale study gives new insight into heat transfer in biological systems
...materials, this is not necessarily the case. Using computer simulations, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic...hts that could prove useful in fields ranging from computer chip manufacturing to cancer treatment. Conduction is the movement of heat from a warmer substance t...Despite rarity of errors in chemotherapy orders, improvements still needed, study finds
...t clinics, physicians now use a more sophisticated computer application with more of the drug-ordering information embedded within it. For medications that are usually given in tandem, the program now requires physicians to order both at the same time. Co-authors of the study are Lawrence Shulman, MD, Debora...