From UF and IBM, a blueprint for 'smart' health care
...mmon. The hardware component of the system is an inexpensive sensor platform about half the size of a business card. Developed at UF and licensed to Pervasa, a Gainesville-based UF spinoff company headed by Helal, the Atlas platform makes it easy to create a network of sensors and make their information availa...New book guides boomers through retirement maze
...edictable concerns of retirement. There are few inexpensive resources available that cover the entire range of legal issues facing baby boomers, including retirement income, housing, health care, estate planning, elder abuse, living wills and age discrimination. We want people to know their issues and options...Oxygen trick could see organic costs tumble
... produce. Conventional produce can be treated with inexpensive chemicals to aid preservation. But these cannot be used for organic produce, as by definition no artificial chemicals are used during processing. With some organic fruit and veg, there can be large losses [during storage], Claudia Ruane, spokes pe...New study reports hotel guests at risk from carbon monoxide poisoning
...0 people every year in the United States. Although inexpensive CO detectors have been available since 1989, their use in hotels, motels and resorts is not widespread. In fact, while every guest room in the U.S. must contain a smoke detector, there is no federal mandate for CO detectors. In a study published in t......illion); and 3) the countermeasures are relatively inexpensive (less than $15 billion) to implement. This analysis by Von Winterfeldt was a widely admired achievement of CREATEs first years but the intensity of effort required to reach the conclusions raised an obvious question. Risk assessments have historic...Soy nuts may improve blood pressure in postmenopausal women
...herefore, dietary soy may be a practical, safe and inexpensive modality to reduce blood pressure. If the findings are repeated in a larger group they may have important implications for reducing cardiovascular risk in postmenopausal women on a population basis," they conclude....To get blood pressure under control, combination of medicines may be best
...rom to try to get it under control, including many inexpensive generic medicines. But studies have found that patients often have trouble taking the multiple medications they need. As a result, many companies have developed combination pills. The ACCOMPLISH data suggest these combination tablets have the pote...Quality improvement effort pays off in diabetes care
...cago-based research team reports that a relatively inexpensive national effort to improve the process of care at selected clinics was able to make enough difference in its first four years that, if sustained, it could reduce patients' lifetime risk of blindness, end-stage kidney disease and coronary artery disea...Students devise oral quick-dissolve strips for rotavirus vaccine
...uid vaccine. We wanted this to be as simple and as inexpensive as possible." The idea originated last year at Aridis Pharmaceuticals, a San Jose, Calif., firm that possesses vaccine stabilization technologies and a rotavirus vaccine that is made stable at room temperatures. Seeking a product resembling breath-...New research helps overcome major CPAP problem
... CBT intervention was fairly simple and relatively inexpensive as it was administered in a group setting. Yet it resulted in marked improvement in CPAP adherence and use compared with standard care." Dr Bartlett said importantly the study also found only 8% of participants in the CBT group refused CPAP either...Malaria-infected mice cured by 1 dose of new drug
...an their predecessors. Although the substance is inexpensive by Western standards, the widespread use of artemisinins in the developing world remains limited, in part by availability and the cost of separating the active ingredient from the Artemisia annua plant. Posner and his team contend that the potency an...Rush researchers participate in worldwide AIDS initiative led by Imperial College London
...ith little training," said Landay. "The goal is an inexpensive test that can use blood from a simple finger prick and requires no sample processing or microscopy." Landay will collaborate with scientists at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne, Australia. The technology underpinning this test was developed by As...New device could revolutionize eye disease diagnosis -- creating eye maps on the high street
...ange appropriate treatment. I foresee a relatively inexpensive instrument that is about the size of a mobile phone in common use in the near future."...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Feb. 28, 2007
...plant, carrot, cassava, horseradish or an array of inexpensive and locally available vegetable products for the c...ndividuals who consume large amounts or rice as an inexpensive food; people with celiac disease (who eat rice as part of a gluten-free diet); Asian-Americans who c...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 31, 2007
...e new PR fluids, in contrast, are based on simple, inexpensive chemicals available in most labs, say the researchers, who envision PR fluids as a technology that could enable Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS). Those much-discussed devices would integrate mechanical elements, sensors, actuators and electron...U-M, Harvard team propose way to make the most of health dollars
...tes are known to receive great benefit from taking inexpensive blood pressure drugs called ACE inhibitors but most of them aren't using the medications. The U-M project is looking at whether "free" availability of select medications will help encourage their appropriate use. Other examples cited in the new p...Selenium supplements may contribute to reduced HIV viral load
...r results support the use of selenium as a simple, inexpensive and safe adjunct therapy," the authors conclude....NOVA to air two-hour documentary on pioneering African American chemist
... the way for the production of large quantities of inexpensive synthetic progesterone from soybeans. He also developed a synthetic version of cortisone, used to relieve the pain of rheumatoid arthritis. Natural cortisone was extremely expensive but Julian's discovery of a soy-based substitute helped millions of ...BC physicists transmit visible light through miniature cable
...e array of new technologies, from high-efficiency, inexpensive solar cells to microscopic light-based switching devices for use in optical computing. The technology could even be used to help some blind people see, the physicists say. The advance builds upon the researchers' earlier invention of a microscopic a...