Online ear and hearing diagnosis to break sound barrier
...oners," Professor Bunt said. "Paradigm Diagnostics looks forward to advancing this revolutionary diagnosis technology with the Lions Ear and Hearing Institute." Professor Bunt also said the software would provide medical background information, photos, video and references to assist with diagnosing patient...In the mind's eye: How the brain makes a whole out of parts
When a human looks at a number, letter or other shape, neurons in various areas of the brain's visual center respond to different components of that shape, almost instantaneously fitting them together like a puzzle to create an image that the individual then "sees" and...Potential treatment for intracerebral hemorrhage under study
... antibodies to other treatments, Dr. Hall says. It looks promising for intracerebral hemorrhage patients as well because it works at sites where there is tissue factor, which is exposed at sites of blood vessel injury. Much like tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, the first drug FDA approved to treat clo...MCG gets technology to help optimize medicine dosage
... Administration-cleared pharmacogenetics test that looks at how an individual metabolizes a drug. "We are talking about a chip-based genetic test that looks at differences between individuals," Dr. Peiper says of the AmpliChip CYP450 Test, developed by Roch...NCI issues clinical announcement for preferred method of treatment for advanced ovarian cancer
...necology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. "GCF looks forward to working with NCI and the ovarian cancer community to educate women about the results of this very important clinical trial, and what it means for women with advanced ovarian cancer." Karen Stanley, R.N., M.S.N, president of the Oncology N...Alcohol-deterrent drugs help patients achieve high rates of long-term abstinence
A nine-year study looks at the impact of alcohol deterrents (ADs) disulfiram and calcium carbimide. Researchers found an abstinence rate of more than 50 percent among the patients studied. ADs appear to play a major psychological role in relapse prevention. Studies ...Penn study reveals prevalence of night eating syndrome among people with psychiatric conditions
...n an obesity clinic. "This is the first study that looks at the connection between psychiatric conditions and night eating syndrome," said Jennifer D. Lundgren, PhD, lead author of the paper and postdoctoral research associate in Penn's Department of Psychiatry, Division of Weight and Eating Disorders. "N...Successful treatment for acute heart failure remains elusive
...e," says Dr. Gheorghiade. "And, on the surface it looks like we're successful at treating ACHF. Patients are treated, feel better and are discharged. The problem is that within 90 days of discharge, nearly 10 percent of patients die and about 30 percent are readmitted." Traditionally, cardiologists have ...Polio vaccination strategies assessed as eradication nears
...ce poliovirus into the community. The other study looks at the how switching forms of vaccine from a live, attenuated vaccine to an inactivated version may affect communities. Oral polio vaccine (OPV), one of the vaccines instrumental in driving the disease to near-eradication, contains weakened live vir...Neuroscientist takes issue with antidepressants for children
...ove their placebo value." In his analysis, Dr Raz looks at some of the reasons behind the current dispute over the value of SSRI antidepressants for treating depressed children and adolescents. "The recent history of SSRIs is replete with inconsistent verdicts about their safety," he says. For exampl...Technology for successful aging shown at White House conference
...ked with letters representing the days of the week looks like an ordinary pill dispenser many seniors use to keep on schedule with their medication doses. It is, indeed, a pill dispenser, with its seven individually marked compartments, but that's where its ordinariness ends. When one of the tiny compartm...New Stanford tool for genetic data analysis may improve cancer treatment
... said the new tool he and his colleagues developed looks for larger groups of genes - equivalent to searching for pitchforks rather than needles - and therefore are more likely to turn up again in future studies. These groups represent biological pathways that are characteristically active or inactive with...Scientists directly view immune cells interacting to avert autoimmunity
...h provides a "blueprint" of what immune regulation looks like, says study co-author Max Krummel, PhD, UCSF assistant professor of pathology whose lab adapted the new two-photon microscopy technique for visualizing cell-cell interactions within the lymph node. "We now have a pattern to look for when we try ...Stanford study of sea squirt provides clue to human immune system
...hy is Botryllus schlosseri, a colonial animal that looks deceptively like a small flower. Each of its apparent petals is actually a separate, though genetically identical, organism, linked to the others by a common blood vessel. Ringing the tiny petals are even tinier tentacle-like ampullae, the sensing or...Study uncovers placental microtransfusions lead to transmission of AIDS virus during childbirth
...ck said. "What we saw was consistent with this. It looks like direct mother-to-child blood mixing occurring during labor leads to infection." The new findings indicate that intervening just before birth by such suggested methods as sanitizing the birth canal may not work, he said. A better alternative migh...For European media only: Can latest advances in health psychology help improve HIV care?
...arriers help improve HIV care? The OpenMind study looks set to help optimise HIV care in treatment experienced patients by exploring the hidden dynamics of the doctor-patient relationship to help develop evidence based interventions. These results are likely to not only have an impact in HIV care but als......uding herpes, are planned in the near future. FHI looks forward to continuing to work with partners on studies of Savvy and other microbicides with the potential to help prevent HIV. Microbicide trials are critical to identifying new HIV prevention tools to reduce the number of individuals who become inf...Aspirin & similar drugs may cut risk of esophageal cancer in people with Barrett's esophagus
...ly sure of the reason," Vaughan said. "However, it looks like obesity is a driving factor, partly because it promotes acid reflux, a key risk factor for both Barrett's and cancer. But it's pretty likely that there's something else going on, too, because obesity is just as high in women and African American......y director, leads a symposium and celebration that looks back at historic discoveries at Hopkins and looks ahead to what's coming next in the brain sciences. What's in a name? At Johns Hopkins, a formal De...