For orthopedic injuries, a robot that follows patients as they move
...ould follow you around." For now, the single robot holds a standard video camera. To use it, a patient wears an LED-lit patch on the body part that is intended for targeting. The patch, several cameras placed around the room and a networked computer command the robots to hone in on and track the joint. In ...Newest M.D. Anderson SPORE to fund breast cancer research
...sing on 14 disease sites. M. D. Anderson currently holds SPORE grants in leukemia and melanoma as well as cancers of the pancreas, ovaries, uterus, head and neck, bladder and prostate, and shares a lung cancer SPORE grant with UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. With the breast cancer SPORE and the r...Half of active children pursue non-traditional physical activities
...and neighborhoods, seemed to help," said Bhat, who holds the Fluor Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Engineering No. 1. "But our ability to influence physical activity through the built environment is rather limited. "Overall, it seems the demographic and social issues, and possibly attitudes toward exerci...Researchers develop portable 'vein finder' for faster, more accurate injections
...cessing components, while a disposable coupler box holds a reflector and needle guide. The needle guide is positioned parallel to the sound beam being transmitted by a transducer in the device's reusable section. As medics move the device along a patient's arm or leg, the transducer emits a thin acoustica...Gold nanoparticles, radiation combo may slow Alzheimer's
...ording to the researchers. The same approach also holds promise for treating other neurodegenerative diseases that involve protein aggregation, including Parkinson's and Huntington's, says study leader Marcelo J. Kogan, of the University of Chile in Santiago. He says that the approach is similar to that o...NIAID researchers show how promising TB drug works
...tb). "PA-824, now in early stage clinical trials, holds promise for shortening the TB treatment regimen, which is currently cumbersome and lengthy," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "This new finding will allow a streamlined approach for making improved versions of the drug." "Previously, we we...Blocking the nerve receptor EP1 in mouse models reduces brain damage caused by stroke
...nd, known as ONO-8713, turns it off. The finding holds promise for the development of effective alternatives to anti-inflammatory drugs called COX inhibitors, which have potentially lethal side effects that limit their use, says Sylvain Dor, Ph.D., an associate professor in the departments of Anesthesiol...Study shows complex link between abuse and eating disorders
...se factors can be addressed through counseling, it holds promise for reducing a woman's risk for developing a disorder, she said. The study's results validate a lot of what many counselors and clinicians already believe or suspect, according to Espelage, a professor of educational psychology at Illinois an...Boys more likely when pregnancy takes longer
...most countries), despite the fact that human semen holds equal amounts of X bearing and Y bearing sperms....Visually impaired people prefer to watch television enhanced with special processing
..., the company that developed the Belkin device and holds a patent pending on the technology, is interested in creating another version of the product for visually impaired viewers based on results from this and other image studies by Peli and his colleagues,*(DigiVision, Inc. was awarded a "Connect 2005 Mo...Alzheimer patients treated with testosterone in UCLA-led study show improved quality of life
...ults suggest that testosterone replacement therapy holds potential for improving quality of life of Alzheimer patients and merits further testing with a larger group of patients and with a longer treatment period," said Dr. Po H. Lu, lead author and assistant clinical professor of neurology at the research...Nov/Dec 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...a new screening tool, the Newest Vital Sign (NVS), holds promise for use in the busy primary care setting. A brief, six-question assessment based on the ability to read and apply information from a nutrition label, NVS was found to be a reliable and accurate measure of literacy. The NVS has advantages ove...Breast CT is more comfortable than mammography and may detect tumors better, research shows
...too much radiation. Boone, a medical physicist who holds six scientific patents, decided to revisit the issue, recognizing that radiation-dose estimates for breast CT were based on use of standard CT machines, which would require the breast and entire chest to be scanned together. When Boone recalculated r...Collapse of p53 into clumps might be linked to cancer, according to St. Jude
... 2005) The disruption of a molecular bridge that holds together the molecule p53 tends to destabilize this protein, allowing it to form potentially disease-causing aggregates, or "clumps," according to a study by investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The mutation that causes clumps to...Radiologists tackle diagnosis of puzzling football injuries
...e. "In syndesmotic tear, the biggest ligament that holds the tibia and fibula together is injured," Dr. Towers explained. "The fibula can move away from the tibia, and the cylindrical groove which forms the ankle can widen under load. The problem is that routine x-rays may not show it, because it's not gro...Launch of the 2006 NIH Director's Pioneer Award program
...not predict the results of pioneering research, it holds great promise for yielding groundbreaking, and even paradigm-shifting, discoveries that lead to significant medical advances," Dr. Zerhouni added. The program is open to scientists at all career levels. The scientists may currently be engaged in any ...Killing regulatory T cells boosts effectiveness of cancer vaccine
...ic T cells. The results suggest that this approach holds great promise for augmenting the potency of current cancer vaccination protocols. In their study appearing online on November 23 in advance of print publication in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Johannes Vieweg and colle...Statement from Sandra Raymond, President and CEO, Lupus Foundation of America, Inc.
...amide, and had a better safety profile. CellCept holds the promise of a better quality of life for people with lupus who suffer the debilitating effects of severe lupus kidney disease. Current chemotherapy drugs used to treat lupus nephritis have potentially serious and life threatening side effects tha...UNC, Shaw research shows continuity of care, not race, key to better blood pressure control
...gh blood pressure, a new study indicates. The same holds true for older whites. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Shaw University in Raleigh, showed that continuity of care was associated with patients' increased awareness of their hypertension and r...Growing health effects of global warming outlined on regional scale
...ade forces of climate change," says Patz, who also holds a joint appointment with the UW-Madison department of Population Health Sciences. Scientists believe that greenhouse gases will increase the global average temperature by approximately 6 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century. Extreme floods, ...