WPI wins $1M to develop system to locate and monitor emergency workers in buildings
... command center. The WPI team has also developed a simpler homing device (dubbed the Mantenna) that uses similar technology. The precision personnel location and tracking technology is expected to be available as a commercial product within two years; the Mantenna device may be ready for sale to emergency de...Spanish project 'AmIVital' creates intelligent communication devices for elderly and disabled people
...es adapted to different needs and environments. In simpler words, this cooperation between companies and research centres will represent "a breakthrough in the field of remote assistance", thanks to the creation of intelligent devices, biosensors, portable systems (integrated into the human body or into clot...Contrast agent puts new light on diagnosing breast cancer
...d Medical School researchers are working on a new, simpler way to distinguish malignant tumors from non-cancerous masses when screening for breast cancer. Scientists in the laboratory of Dr. John Frangioni, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and radiology at Harvard Medical School, have developed...Transdermal vaccine effective in treating Alzheimer's disease in mouse model
...rmal, or across the skin, vaccination, may offer a simpler way of preventing or treating the devastating neurodegenerative disease with less likelihood of adverse immune reactions. The study was published online this week in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "While many groups have s...Maximizing womens' health benefits when resources are limited
... benefits of the package were maximized by using a simpler test for cervical cancer and by treating anemia but not depression; this freed up resources in some regions to screen for breast cancer or cardiovascular disease. The results suggest that the packaging of multiple health services during a single vi...Racial disparities high in Medicare plans
...han for measures of processes of care that require simpler actions, such as a single annual blood test. "Our findings suggest that nearly all Medicare health plans will need to develop specific programs to improve equity on at least three of the four clinical outcome measures we studied," says Trivedi. "Th...Study shows promise for simplified treatment of HIV infection
...g antiretroviral regimens have prompted studies of simpler therapies for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. Treatment cessation, intermittent therapy, and induction-maintenance (a few months of triple therapy followed by simplified therapy) regimens have been evaluated with mostly inferio...AIDS depleting health workforce more than brain drain in some African countries
...nts alive and at work in their home countries is a simpler task, and one that we know how to do." ...A number of patients with slight cognitive deterioration will suffer from Alzheimers
... on the necessity to find new, more accessible and simpler biochemical markers but with the same predictive capacity. In this manner we can undertake therapeutic intervention in the initial stages of Alzheimer precisely when there are more possibilities of success....Even a little cooling helps after cardiac arrest
...s of an animal model study to evaluate whether the simpler procedure might provide equivalent benefit. Cooling a person by 3-4 C during the first day after resuscitation has been demonstrated to improve the odds of a good recovery, but few patients receive this therapy. There may be fear of complications or ...Perfect timing: Cardiologists meet in Chicago during May's National Stroke Awareness Month
...ing. People with atrial fibrillation may soon have simpler new treatment options. Interventional cardiologists are investigating a new technique that involves using a catheter to insert a small, acorn-shaped device into the opening of the left-sided pouch, permanently blocking it off and preventing blood fro...Positive results for ACRUX's lead product in US Phase 3 trial
...ons of women - a low dose estrogen, delivered in a simpler and more convenient way. These Phase 3 trial results demonstrate its efficacy in treating the key symptoms thatmay be suffered by this significant patient group"....CT colonography even safer than previously reported, says study
...archers, automated carbon dioxide delivery is much simpler and safer for the CT technologist to employ than manual room air insufflation, which was the method of distention used in the previous studies that reported a higher complication rate due to perforations. "The automated nature of carbon dioxide deli...Does IQ drop with age or does something else impact intelligence?
... greatest difference was seen on the coding of the simpler symbols that contained diagonal features. Yet on the complex symbols each group was closely matched. "The poorer performance by older adults may be characterized by a loss of efficiency in visual search," stated the researcher. In the second experim...Secret herb in tests to stop breast cancer patients' hot flushes and night sweats
... said: "It is hoped that the herbal remedy will be simpler and cheaper to take, as well as more effective, thus improving the lives of women who need all their energy to fight the disease." He and his team are now recruiting 170 volunteers for the randomized trial, half of whom will take the phytooestrogen h...Lizard 'third eye' sheds light on evolution of color vision
...ecular signals to sense light: those found only in simpler animals, like scallops, and those found only in mo... in human photoreceptors as well as those found in simpler organisms like the scallop, the researchers propose that the lizard's parietal eye photoreceptor cel...Assessment model gauges lung cancer risk based on medical history and genetics
...carcinogen. In the future, more cost effective and simpler laboratory analyses need to be developed to represent the activity of genes involved in the repair processes. Using the model, they have found, for example, that: Heavy smokers who have a previous history of emphysema (a chronic lung condition occu...Cheaper and simpler keyhole surgery
...r function to the surgical robot systems, but in a simpler and cheaper manner. In a test carried out with experienced medical students, the manipulator was compared to the existing (rigid) instruments. This study showed that far fewer actions were needed when using the manipulator and that fewer mistakes wer...... While eight percent of patients who underwent the simpler procedure showed significant biochemical marker re...e of contrast used, it is probably wise to use the simpler strategy. It's not prohibitive to take the complex approach however, because both procedures had th...... led to synthesis methods that are more efficient, simpler to use and more environment friendly. Grubbs and Shrock's work was hailed by the Nobel Prize committee as "a great step forward for 'green chemistry,' reducing potentially hazardous waste through smarter production." In addition, the conference will ...