Voice-to-voice translation machine perfects bedside manner
... This approach, he adds, grows directly out of the extraordinary difficulty of the technical problems involved. "Two-way voice translation involves combining at least three highly imperfect existing disciplines, with the errors multiplying at every stage," Narayanan explained. These include: Text translation. ...Value of IVF children to society outweighs their cost to healthcare systems
...o a falling population in the western world, it is extraordinary that the chronic disease, infertility, should not be paid for by public health systems", she said. Dr. Granberg and her team looked at all IVF and ICSI cycles in Nordic countries in 2002 and calculated the cost per pregnancy resulting in at least one...Cancer researcher Susan Horwitz wins Alpert prize for Taxol work
...atients. The impact of Susan's work has been quite extraordinary in the cancer field," said Professor Dominick Purpura, MD, Dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who nominated Dr. Horwitz for the prize. In fact, earlier this year, shortly after Dr. Horwitz was selected as winner of the prize, she was acknow...Seven deadly sins: A new look at society through an old lens
...UTTONY 'Binge drinking' and the binge economy An extraordinary amount of media attention focuses on alcohol consumption and its impact on public order and health. But as Professor Dick Hobbs shows, while 'binge drinking' youths dominate the headlines, it is older drinkers in their middle years that are most like...'Binge drinkers': Folk devils of the binge economy
An extraordinary amount of media attention focuses on alcohol consumption and its impact on public order and health. But as Professor Dick Hobbs shows in ESRC's new report Seven Deadly Sins, while 'binge drinking' youths dominate the headlines, it is older drinkers t...Women rising to the challenge of weightlessness
...t the MEDES clinic, in what they all agreed was an extraordinary experience. Some, out of a spirit of adventure, signed up as a way of taking on yet another challenge; this was the case with Marjo from Finland, who had already toured the world, or the sport-loving Dorotha from Poland, who lives in Sweden, works i...CONRAD receives $24 million from Gates Foundation and USAID for HIV microbicide trials
...ssful outcome. The microbicide field has built an extraordinary amount of scientific momentum, with several first-generation candidates entering large-scale human trials around the world. At the same time, new products, based upon recent advances in HIV treatment, are already well into safety trials. Given curren...Microbicide partners receive $5.7 million from Gates Foundation
...tercourse. The microbicide field has built an extraordinary amount of scientific momentum, with several first-generation candidates entering large-scale human trials around the world. At the same time, new products, based upon recent advances in HIV treatment, are already well into safety trials. Given curren...Mailman School shares new virus identification technologies
...ation in a global meeting of this kind provides an extraordinary opportunity for continued technology sharing and coordinated surveillance. The workshop will provide an overview as well as hands-on sessions in the Greene Lab where participants will work in groups with Columbia faculty members using newly develope...A new look at genes that cause testicular cancer
... sperm," Professor Koopman said. "The results are extraordinary for two reasons. First, it is concrete proof of the link between cancer and normal embryonic development. Second, it may mean that our susceptibility to testicular cancer is sealed from a very early stage indeed." Among the known risk factors for de...The Neurosciences and Music in Leipzig: Registration boom and over 140 posters
...ore interesting to neuroscientists, in view of the extraordinary progress of functional imaging techniques, that combine temporal and spatial resolution to provide an accurate analysis of the elaboration processes involved in music. Also of great interest are the sessions focusing on the impact of music on educat...Blood test can accurately diagnose heart failure in emergency patients
..., and cost-effective diagnostic method would be of extraordinary value." Proteins called natriuretic peptides are produced when the cardiac muscle is under stress. The role of testing for these proteins in several forms of cardiovascular disease has been the subject of intense recent study. In 2002, the newest ge......en Inc., recognizes a young person who has made an extraordinary contribution to children. 2004 RECIPIENTS: Gopa Kothari, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India , created the Child Eye Care Charitable Trust, and has protected more than 68,000 children from blindness and trained more than 1.3 million women in nutrition an...