Less agitation in AD patients, less stress and depression in caregivers with collaborative care
...tudies like this that we have that show that these kinds of models work, the more evidence we have to go to the payers and say these are cost effective interventions," he said. Next Dr. Callahan and colleagues plan a larger, longer study to explore the cost effectiveness of this type of team approach to Al...M. D. Anderson: Setting the benchmark in brain tumor treatment
...iding critical brain structures, thus reducing the kinds of neurological deficits that lead to impaired quality of life, says Sawaya. Radiation therapy also has been part of the standard of care in brain tumors, but such treatment is especially tricky in the brain, given that tumors are embedded wit...Online calculator and chemotherapy order systems reduce medication errors in children
...he military. FMEA analysis showed researchers what kinds of errors occurred, where they were most likely to occur and what the potential for harm was. The most frequent errors were misidentification of patients and entering incorrect patient information, such as weight and height. Less frequent were dosage...K-State professors study risk attitudes and consequences of college drinking
... with other factors, play out in understanding the kinds of behavior people get into. "Students who tend to have attitudes that make them greater risk takers are more likely to get into trouble when drinking," Steve Benton said. "Even when controlling the amount of alcohol, it's not how much you drink that...What is the sound of one person talking? New speech collection tells all, syllable by syllable
...the corpus. "It's interesting because of the many kinds of modifications that happen to the acoustics of speech in conversations," Dilley said. "For example, we may pronounce 'don't you' as 'don'tcha' when we are talking. "By looking at the phonemic transcriptions we can tell exactly how a person pronoun...Technology to improve learning for visually-impaired children
...visual, audio and haptic feedback can support many kinds of users with disabilities because missing one of the modalities does not make the system unusable, Raisamo adds. Project partners have developed or tested 16 different interfaces and application prototypes, such as explorative learning of the earth'...Look out! Eyeglass injuries may lead to hospital visit
...sport-specific eyewear can," she continued. "These kinds of glasses are typically much more flexible and impact-resistant."...University of Utah to help build bionic arm
...lop the prosthetic arm itself and will study other kinds of neural interfaces that could operate the bionic arm, including a device implanted to receive signals from the brain instead of nerves in the residual limb. After two years, project leaders at the Applied Physics Laboratory will decide which appr...Social networks protect against Alzheimer's
... disease. The effect was evident across different kinds of cognitive abilities, but was most evident for semantic memory, which is the repository of knowledge about the world and is fundamentally involved in unique human cognitive processes such as language. The results were unchanged after controlling fo...Watching the brain switch off 'self'
...same musical phrases, but to perform two different kinds of processing on them. To explore sensory processing, the researchers asked the subjects to use buttons to classify the images as animal/non-animal, or the musical passages as trumpet/non-trumpet. And to study introspection, the researchers asked the...Cancer therapy based on anatomical location may soon be obsolete
...ete. When the researchers compared eight different kinds of cancerous tumors, they saw that whether the tumor was, for instance, a breast tumor, lung tumor or colon tumor didn't correlate to how the cancers interacted with a standard anticancer drug. Their findings suggest that traditional cancer treatment...Older children not smarter than their younger sibs, study finds
...ilevel modeling, that allowed them to separate two kinds of variation in intelligence: variation between families, and variation among siblings within families. In addition, this technique allowed the researchers to study variables such as environmental influences that might explain differences in intellig...Help for siblings of children with special needs
...particular are at high risk for experiencing these kinds of problems. To address this concern, a report published in the December 2005 issue of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology finds that family-based group intervention can help improve the self-confidence and knowledge of young siblings (ages 4 to 7) o...OHSU brings relief to 'suicide disease' sufferers
... back, so the tooth is pulled out. People have all kinds of unbelievable things done before somebody finally says, 'You know what? Maybe this isn't your tooth.' To prevent unnecessary procedures, people need to be told early on what they have." Since 2002, Burchiel has been using an 18-point questionnaire ...Research suggests that immune response protects against brain tumor development
...ne system plays a role in development of different kinds of brain tumors." "Our long-term goal is to look a...s significantly protective for the three different kinds of brain tumors examined in the study. Individuals with the disorders had a 35 percent reduced risk ...Dangerous glucose-hungry cervical tumors can be detected using PET scans
...umors vary more in their glucose uptake than other kinds of cancer, making glucose uptake a very useful indicator for cervical cancers," says Perry W. Grigsby, M.D., a radiation oncologist with the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. "We found that ...New hope for tissue regeneration and joint repair
...xtensive self-renewal and adaptable to forming all kinds of connective tissues. While detected in several adult human tissues, MSCs have traditionally been obtained from bone marrow, an invasive, painful, and costly process. Researchers in the United Kingdom and Belgium set out to investi...Helping mentally retarded children and adolescents
...disciplinary approach in determining the level and kinds of supports that the individual will need over the life span. Management begins with prompt referral to an infant intervention program or, in older children, to a public education system. Children with MR should be cared for in the context of a medic...Powerful new tool for studying brain development
...mputer interface that links our data to many other kinds of gene information, without the need to go into a regular laboratory." The BGEM is a growing, encyclopedic collection of tens of thousands of images as seen through a microscope. The images are obtained at distinct time points and show where and w......cancer. On an annual basis, skin disorders of all kinds cost the nation more than $37 billion in medical treatment and lost worker productivity. "Rates of melanoma are on the rise and the disease is as deadly as it has ever been," commented Howard P. Milstein, Chairman of the American Skin Association. ...