Medical students respond positively to simulated patient experience
...g tubes. I figured if we were going to do this, lets do it big. A lot of time and resources were involved, but we were just overwhelmed by the students response to it, Fitch said. I look at it like its a live-action play. It wasnt actual real time, but I wanted them to feel like they were in the Emerg...Personal comments by physicians distract from patient needs
.... Were not the right age to be dating, I guess. So lets see. No trouble urinating or anything like that" Although occasionally it might be useful for physicians to answers inquiries from patients about their personal life or to comment on a specific topic raised by a patient, such discussions general...Nanomedicine opens the way for nerve cell regeneration
... It directs straightforward nerve growth and never lets them stray from the fast lane." ...Study puts us one step closer to understanding the function of sleep
...mories, many neuroscientists believe that sleeping lets us rehearse the day's events. Tononi agrees that sleep improves memory, but he thinks this happens through a different process, one that involves a reduction in brain overload. During sleep, he suggests, the synapses (connections between nerve cells...A revolution in the monitoring of unborn babies
...l pregnancies each year are high risk. The monitor lets doctors read signals produced naturally by the unborn babys heart. They can then intervene if necessary and potentially save their lives. The fetal monitor is the result of years of collaborative work between engineers and doctors at the Universit...Hay fever can send work productivity down the drain
...ician then pricks the skin through the drop, which lets the allergen enter the body. The doctor and patient then wait for a reaction, which could indicate an allergy. About one out of five participants in the study underwent a blood test that evaluates the reaction of immunoglobulin E (IgE) to specific ...Northwestern chemists develop new method for synthesizing anti-cancer flavonoids
...r that kills cells where they are and a third that lets the bodys immune system do its work. Karl and his team have opened this door." "We are really excited to work on flavonoids with anti-cancer properties so we can selectively modify these natural products," said Scheidt. "We want to get selectivity ...Light-based probe 'sees' early cancers in first tests on human tissue
... irregular and enlarged cell nuclei. "Our device lets us measure those changes with much better accuracy than any imaging technique," Wax said. His team plans to begin a small clinical trial of the advanced endoscope in collaboration with researchers at Duke University Medical Center. The team also is...BC physicists transmit visible light through miniature cable
...r metal sheath. This structure encloses energy and lets the cable transmit electromagnetic signals with wa...ble light. "The beauty of our nanocoax is that it lets us squeeze visible light through very small geometric dimensions. It also allows us to transmit ligh...Aggressive stem cells might improve transplant outcome
...zed homing mechanism called a T cell receptor that lets them find the specific target they are genetically programmed to attack. The key to the new finding is the discovery by the St. Jude team that the antibody currently used to seek out and "capture" CD34+ stem cells from the donated bone marrow actua...Consumers neutral on risks, benefits of nano
... "Measuring public sentiment toward nanotechnology lets us both check the pulse of the industry right now, and chart the growth or erosion of public acceptance in the future." The research was based on more than 5,500 survey responses. The authors of the article developed the surveys, which were adminis...Sports cheats beware -- new test detects previously undetectable drug
...y separation and mass spectrometric analysis. This lets scientists produce a chemical fingerprint of the molecule a fingerprint that uniquely identifies it. "If the drug testing authorities adopt this new test it will close a gap in the current drug testing system, and mean that athletes will no longer...Phys ed class more effective when there's more talking
...' attitudes toward physical activity. This program lets them exercise whenever, however and wherever they want to."...Children's Hospital Boston neurosurgeons to perform brain tumor removal during live Web cast
...e other intraoperative MR machines, the mobile MRI lets surgeons use their usual metal surgical tools because the unit is moved into the shielded garage when surgeons are operating," says Joseph R. Madsen, MD, a neurosurgeon in the Department of Neurosurgery at Children's Hospital Boston and associate pro...Mayo researchers discover HIV dependence on a human protein
...e never cured. Stopping the medicines even briefly lets HIV repopulate the body with many millions of copies, like a computer virus spreading around the world from a single infected computer....St. Jude first to describe new statistical method
...n't," Boyett said. Specifically, Xiong's technique lets investigators determine the probability that their decision to stop the trial would have changed if they had let the clinical trial continue to the end. "This is a novel advantage of Dr. Xiong's technique," Boyett said. "Investigators are ethical...New lab technique churns out fungus' potential cancer fighter
...e years of effort, we've worked out a process that lets researchers finally produce enough rasfonin to really start investigating how it functions, and how we might harness it to fight cancer." In 2000, researchers from Chiba University in Japan and the University of Tokyo simultaneously discovered a comp...Researcher brings space age to surgery equipment, procedures
...s, and a motorized carriage on the operating table lets the arms move anywhere on the table. "It's very position-able to any part of the body," he said, adding that this may possibly allow the robot be used on arms and legs. Hannaford's research endeavors were funded, in part, by a grant from the DoD...Washington, DC getting a summertime air quality exam
...iment. "This type of instrument comparison project lets us test improved moisture sensors." Better water vapor data from radiosondes flown around the world can lead to more accurate weather forecasts and long-term climate predictions. New knowledge is also emerging from the experiment about the daily ri...Hopkins scientists use embryonic stem cells, new cues to awaken latent motor nerve repair
... weakening of the traveling electrical impulse and lets it continue long distances. In humans, the myelinated sciatic nerve, for example, exits the spinal cord and extends to the leg muscles it activates, carrying impulses several feet. Once laid down, however, myelin inhibits further nerve growth -- natu...