How brain pacemakers erase diseased messages
...od and Drug Administration and can be found in the heads of about 30,000 Americans, the mechanisms by which deep brain stimulation alleviates disease symptoms aren't well understood. Biomedical engineers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have found that stimulation administered by rapid-fi...Medical, high-energy physicists collaborate to improve PET scans
...mic particle measurements with Harold Sanders, who heads the Electronics Group. "That was on a Friday afternoon, and Harold said, 'you're out of your mind.'" But the following Monday, Sanders said, "You know, maybe it's not completely crazy." That was before they began working with Chen more than a year ...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, May 2007
...ergy costs by $494 million. ORNLs Tony Wright, who heads a team that manages the nationwide study, said the energy savings are good for improving the U.S. business climate. These high savings enable these industries to be more competitive as money saved from high energy costs can be rerouted to other aspec...Spanish project 'AmIVital' creates intelligent communication devices for elderly and disabled people
...akthrough in remote assistance According to the heads of this ambitious project, unprecedented in Spain, AmIVital will not only allow for the development of specific ready-to-use products, but it will also set up a technological platform comprising device, network and computer programme standardized com...Nanoparticles can track cells deep within living organisms
...nt included in fluoride toothpastes. Wickline, who heads the Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, says this technology offers significant advantages over other cell-labeling technologies under development. "We can tune an MRI scanner to the specific frequency of the fluorine compound in t...Probe to detect spread of breast cancer co-developed by UH scientist
...urgeons in various countries." Brazdeikis, who heads the Biomedical Imaging Group at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH (TcSUH), said a goal of the grant was to commercialize biomedical technology developed at universities through collaborative research. He and Pankhurst, deputy director of ...Mayo Clinic research shows young people who died suddenly and inexplicably had genetic heart defects
...ckerman, M.D., Ph.D., the study's chief author who heads the Mayo Clinic Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory. "To prevent further tragic, premature deaths, the standard of care for the evaluation of sudden unexplained death must now change. Surviving members in a family in which there's...10 outstanding scientists chosen as First Environmental Health Science Fellows
..., a member of the Fellows Selection Committee, who heads the Department of Environmental Health at the University of Cincinnati. The 2007 Fellows include senior postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty who represent a wide range of interests, experience, and universities. The well-rounded and already acc...New details on how the immune system recognizes influenza
...tested targets," says Alessandro Sette, Ph.D., who heads the Vaccine Discovery division at LIAI and is the lead investigator on the project. For the current study, Dr. Sette and his colleagues examined 600 different epitopes from 58 different strains of influenza A virus. One of their main goals was to d...Dr. Msiska, UN leader in the worldwide fight to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS, to speak at Stevens
... Institute in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He currently heads the Southern Africa Capacity Initiative (SACI) and is the Project Director for the UNDP Regional Project on HIV and Development for Sub-Saharan Africa. In prior years he served as a Health Systems Advisor for UNAIDS in Geneva, Switzerland and as Nati...Interagency relations key to improving outcomes from UK health research
...veryone close to both institutions knows that some heads need knocking together. This will be Bells first and perhaps most difficult task. ...Antibiotic ear drops favored over popular oral antibiotics for ear infections
...common childhood afflictions, said Dr. Roland, who heads the Clinical Center for Auditory, Vestibular and Facial Nerve Disorders at UT Southwestern and who is also chief of pediatric otology at Childrens Medical Center Dallas. Middle ear infections are the most common diagnosis for which children receive...Young infants should not be left unattended to sleep in car safety seats
...constructed, using the infants own car seat, their heads bent forward with the jaw pressed down on the chest. This led to a narrowing of the upper airway and breathing problems. All infants were given breathing monitors and the parents were given advice on appropriate positioning, including not leaving t...Nap a day makes doctors OK, Stanford study finds
... while performing the driving simulation. If their heads bobbed or they closed their eyes for longer than five seconds, they were labeled dangerous drivers. Again, those with naps scored better than those without. Despite an accumulation of scientific evidence showing the benefits of napping for workers, ...M. D. Anderson, BCM, launch research effort targeting asthma and allergic diseases
...SLP, perpetuating the inflammatory cycle. Huston heads the project's clinical research core, which includes Drs. Nick Hanania, Robert Atmar, Pedro Piedra, and Robert Couch, at BCM. Liu leads the analytical and administrative cores. All four research projects also will require close interaction, Liu sai...National study: Patients poorly prepared for end-of-life decisions
...icine), and Chris Frank (Geriatrics). Dr. Heyland heads a national research group on palliative and end-of-life care initiatives located at Queen's and McMaster, with affiliates at other Canadian universities and hospitals. Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the five-year project...International AIDS Vaccine Initiative calls for new measures to search for an AIDS vaccine
...g signs, including recent endorsements from the G8 heads of state, the United Nations General Assembly, and from global AIDS organizations which recognize the importance of a vaccine in an overall response to the epidemic. "There is an urgent need today for a comprehensive approach to HIV/AIDS one that...Sandia work launched on space shuttle shows live cells influence growth of nanostructures
Albuquerque, N.M. -- Far above the heads of Earthlings, arrays of single-cell creatures are circling Earth in nanostructures. The sample devices are riding on the International Space Station (courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico, NASA and US Air Force)...Center for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine receives $8 million from Third Frontier Program
...nt will have eight to ten new stem cell laboratory heads with about 100 total employees. The Cell Production Facility, which opened November 2005, provides ultra sterile, dedicated space for the preparation and expansion of stem cells that are and will be used in early human clinical trials at UHC and Cle...Karolinska Institute and Harvard in a unique training initiative
...ay. Amongst the speakers on the course will be the heads of Duke's new Medical School in Singapore and Cornell's branch in Qatar. Attending the course will also be the president of the World Federation of Medical Education (WMFE), Dr Hans Karle. "We're seeing a trend towards adopting international quality ...