Voice-to-voice translation machine perfects bedside manner
...d paraphrase what is being communicated instead of doing exact word for word translation," Narayanan says. Additionally, the system uses the human ability to read text as a bridge over some of the worst problems of speech recognition and machine translation, by allowing users to select alternate possible ...Measures can help save frontal sinuses
...d fix chronically obstructed frontal sinuses. "By doing the surgery over and over again, I've learned to look at the (computerized tomography) scan and check to see if I had room for my instruments to go through," says Dr. Kountakis, senior author of the recently released first textbook on the frontal sin...USC researchers link cellular stress to drug resistance in tumors
...e. Her study shows that antiangiogenesis drugs, by doing the very job they are supposed to do-starving cells of oxygen and glucose-force tumor cells into a survival mode in which they turn on genes like GRP78 that can help them to both resist and survive the onslaught. "When a tumor is under the attack of ...A TV in the bedroom is associated with lower standardized test scores among third grade students
...l, student's sex, students' media use, reading and doing homework], the differences in predicted test scores are quite large," the researchers report. "For example, we observe that the predicted mathematics scores (using students' estimates [of media use]) range from 41 to 58, showing a 17-point difference...Canadian researchers call for more angiograms
...such as bypass surgery and angioplasty. "We're not doing enough to test people in Alberta, and, as Alberta ...s per capita, we can safely say that we need to be doing a lot more of these procedures across the country," said Dr. Michelle Graham, a cardiologist at the ...Ten million Africans treated by international disease treatment programme
...ousands of eggs escape from the body daily, but in doing so rupture capillary blood vessels causing heavy blood loss. Those eggs which do not escape become trapped in the liver, causing a blockage and extreme damage, eventually leading to death. Those most at risk of schistosomiasis are school-age childre...Acupuncture offers short-term benefit for arthritis
...udy of acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis is that doing something is better than doing nothing." However he cautions that it is too soon to draw firm conclusions from the current study: "...Giving oxygen may do more harm than good, new report shows
... commonly administered "drug" in the world may be doing more harm than good, a Queen's University researcher contends. And although there's a simple solution adding carbon dioxide to the mix it isn't being used by most Canadian hospitals and emergency services networks, says Dr. Steve Iscoe, a respirat...Obese men more carb intolerant than obese women
...r obese patients to lose weight and assist them in doing so in a healthful manner," said Paul A. Kvale, MD, FCCP, President of the American College of Chest Physicians....Experts discuss use of human stem cells in ape and monkey brains
...ant ways, they also felt strongly that the risk of doing so is real and too ethically important to ignore. "Our group struggled with many fundamental questions," says Faden. "Are there cognitive or emotional capacities that are unique to humans in ways that make us worthy of higher moral status? What sets...Creating a new questionnaire to assess alcohol problems among college students
...e of problem that may be of interest to the person doing the evaluation. Furthermore, external validation is limited and there is an absence of replication across diverse samples and settings, which could limit intervention recommendations." "This manuscript simply shows that there is a reliable ordering ......, voluntary decisions to donate and did not regret doing so. "However, recipients originally showed caution because they were concerned for their donor's health," said Mr Gill, "they only agreed to accept after establishing that it was something the donor genuinely wanted to do. "Recipients also reported t...Camera-guided colon surgery works best for most patients, study confirms
..."If you look at what some of the top surgeons were doing with the laparoscopic approach even five years ago and compare it to what they can do today, there's a world of difference, in terms of the speed of the operation, the outcomes and the quality," says Stamos. Why patients who receive laparoscopic surg...Doctors should stop prescribing antibiotics for the common cold, review advises
...lth issues." Dr. Arroll says that patients are not doing themselves any favors looking for a "quick fix" in pressuring their providers to prescribe antibiotics for colds. "Patients will get a quicker fix if they take decongestants such as pseudoephedrine (Sudafed)," he says....Gene found in 90 percent of breast cancers may be cancer vaccine target
...ientists don't yet know what the TRPS-1 protein is doing during the development of breast cancer, but they have started gathering clues to its role. Scientists at other institutions have shown TRPS-1 is a DNA-binding protein that regulates how other proteins get produced. It also appears to be involved in ...Neuroscientists identify how trauma triggers long-lasting memories in the brain
...s, they tended to enter the dark compartment. Upon doing so, however, they were each given a mild foot-shock an emotional experience that, by itself, was not strong enough to become a long-lasting memory. Some of the rats then had their amygdala chemically stimulated in order to determine what role it pla...Habit leads to learning, new VA/UCSD study shows
...ect object, the subjects wondered aloud, "How am I doing this?" When asked how he knew which object to select, one of the subjects pointed to his head and replied "It here, and somehow or another the hand goes for it." By the end of the study they were scoring 95% and 100% in their selection of the correc...New study: Sexually transmitted disease treatment can be effectively administered by sex partners
...le this is a valid concern, the alternative to not doing patient-delivered partner treatment is to rely on the patient to refer the partners. We know that that results in less than 50 percent of the partners getting treated. So those partners were probably not going to get those services anyway." The relat...Newest HIV drugs should be used with FUZEON(R)
... plan for the future, which I didn't even consider doing before starting this regimen. I have much more energy now than I had before, which is exhilarating since I have been held back for so long." Spike has been living with HIV since it was detected in his body in 1986 and works as a freelance designer a...Once-dreaded leprosy 'replaced' by tuberculosis, say researchers
... and their colleagues had worked on previously. In doing so, they found leprosy and tuberculosis bacteria in remains from a 4th century CE Egyptian shrine that was known to have been visited by lepers, from a 10th century burial ground in Hungary, and from a Viking-age cemetery in northern Sweden. The co...