From UF and IBM, a blueprint for 'smart' health care
...er than a standard waiting list, patients could be equipped with networked wireless monitors of their vital signs, allowing doctors to determine who in a waiting room needs the most immediate care.......rising nanoparticles synthesized within dendrimers equipped with targeting molecules and dyes. These dendrimer...eptors. Since the dendrimer nanoparticles are also equipped with dye molecules, the high concentrations of nanoparticles accumulated in the cancer cells can be ...Progress toward an antitumor vaccine
...r atom). To this end, the carrier protein is first equipped with a spacer, which has an allyl group (two carbon atoms attached by a double bond) at its end. The glycopeptide is coupled to a building block that causes thiols (sulfurhydrogen groups) to protrude from the molecule. In the next, light-initiated (p...System to pinpoint airline passengers who contaminate cabins
... results from the computational models. The lab is equipped with three sensors and recreates the exhalation and body heat of passengers and an airliner's "linear diffuser" environmental control system, which supplies fresh and recirculated air for passengers. Boxy devices located on several seats reproduce bo...Extremely drug resistant TB a growing problem in India
...zed and under-treated. "Most labs in India are not equipped to perform drug susceptibility tests so exact prevalence is difficult to ascertain, and treatment in the absence of reliable sensitivity reports is difficult. Compounding the problem is the huge costs of treating these most difficult TB patients," he...UCLA Stroke Center receives American Stroke Association's Initial Achievement Award
...d to the emergency department. This includes being equipped 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to provide brain imaging scans; having neurologists available to conduct patient evaluations; and using clot-busting medications when appropriate. To receive the award, the UCLA Stroke Center consistently compli...Huge waves that hit Reunion Island tracked from space
...curacy of their sea forecast models. Envisat is equipped with an advanced version of the SAR instrument, Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR), flown on the ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions. Its wave mode acquires 10 by 5 km small images, or 'imagettes', of the sea surface every 100 km along the satellite orbit...Scientists equip bacteria with custom chemo-navigational system
...tic biology," says Dr. Gallivan. The researchers equipped E. coli with a "riboswitch," a segment of RNA that changes shape when bound to certain small target molecules, which can then turn genes on or off. Dr. Gallivan and Topp believe that the riboswitch can be used to equip other types of self-propelled ...Animal study identifies promising new target for brain tumor therapy
...ients with a restored immune system will be better equipped to fight off brain tumors. They hope to start a clinical trial soon. The results of this study hold promise for the development of vaccines that can work against tumors by eliciting the help of the bodys immune system, Sampson said. The researchers...Doctors ill equipped to confront parent smoking
...for children, but they also believed they were not equipped to help. Almost all respondents (93 percent) reported that they received less than two hours of smoking cessation training during residency. Survey participants cited key barriers to addressing patients second-hand smoke exposure, including lack ...Rush University Simulation Laboratory honored for innovation
..., is a state-of-the-art simulation training center equipped with life-sized, computer-controlled 'virtual patients' capable of simulating nearly any possible human medical emergency including allergic reactions and the effects of biochemical agents and drug overdoses, in addition to surgical and other procedu...US Senate introduces bill to train more preventive medicine doctors
... clinical medicine and public health are uniquely equipped to address the health needs of individuals and populations alike," said Dr. Michael Parkinson, president of the American College of Preventive Medicine. "We applaud this bi-partisan group of health care leaders for their foresight in protecting the n...A new, nanoporous ceramic filter offers hope to kidney-dialysis patients
...ill place more strain on the hospitals and clinics equipped to do dialysis. "If we can cut the time of an average session by just 30 minutes," says Van Geertruyden, "dialysis facilities can reduce the costs of labor and machine time, and accommodate more patients. "That would be a tremendous improvement."...Embargoed March/April Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...and skills, integrated health networks are well equipped to handle the complexities of a major disaster, the greatest medical need for displaced adult disaster victims is continuation of chronic disease care, and immediate mental health efforts should focus on practicalities, such as finding lost rel......Kim and his team chose rigid, disk-shaped monomers equipped with a ring of special molecular "hooks" that can be activated by UV light. When a solution containing these disks is irradiated, the hooks grab on to each other, linking the disks into little, two-dimensional "patches" that in turn hook on to other ...Cardiology Society recommends high standards for PCI performed without on-site surgical backup
...neous coronary intervention (PCI) in hospitals not equipped for cardiac surgery. The document has already been endorsed by 12 medical societies, representing well over a dozen countries. Written by leaders in cardiovascular medicine, SCAIs consensus document addresses an ongoing health policy debate about whe...SCAI expert panel sets high standards for PCI without on-site cardiac surgical backup
...neous coronary intervention (PCI) in hospitals not equipped for cardiac surgery. The document has been endorsed by 12 medical societies representing more than a dozen countries, including the Asia-Pacific region, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Egypt, Great Britain, India, Italy, Latvia, New Zealand, Po...Better review of new technology is needed to reduce health costs
...oduce a more unified medical policy that is better equipped to grapple with tensions among quality, innovation and value than the current U.S. system. To date, the U.S. has no nationally coordinated policy on technology assessment and lacks a widespread clinical electronic medical record database--which hind...Trauma patients at risk across the country, surgeons on-call to discuss emergency-care crisis
...tes. Only half of the states in the country are equipped with trauma systems, and according to the CDC, only those in eight states are optimally equipped. The ACS has a proven workable model for regionalized coordination of emergency care, when in place, shows a 25-percent greater likelihood of survival...Telemedicine improves breast screenings for rural Indian reservations, U-M researchers find
...itional mobile mammography, in which a large truck equipped with mammography machines travels to various sites. Using digital mammography instead of films and adding satellite capability, they found the digital mammograms could be beamed to radiologists who could read them in Ann Arbor, Mich. "Mobile mammogr...