New approach to eye training may significantly improve performance
...to find training the eyes in the one process would transfer so extensively to the other, but not vice versa," Dosher said. Dosher and Lu have been working in visual attention and perceptual learning for nearly six years. In addition to shedding light on perceptual learning processes, their testing methods and...NIH awards funding to biotech firm for heart disease
...nsfer Award program, which is designed to help the transfer of innovative technologies from an academic setting to the commercial sector and rapidly translate research discoveries made in the laboratory into therapy for patients. Blocked or damaged blood vessels are a major cause of illness and death around ...Study finds moderate hypothermia a safe treatment for traumatic brain injury in kids
...nts who were excluded because there was a delay in transfer of greater than six hours following injury but within 24 hours of admission, or unknown time when the injury occurred (i.e. child abuse) or were an adolescent (1318 years old). Assessments of safety included mortality, infection, coagulopathy (blood...Stroke drug still meets resistance from doctors wary of its risks
...f a hospital can't make that commitment, it should transfer stroke patients or make it known to EMS agencies that stroke patients should be directed elsewhere." Barsan treated the first patient ever to receive tPA, during a clinical trial while he was at the University of Cincinnati in the early 1980s. He als...Ultrasound images transmitted over the phone allow radiologists to diagnose patients in real time
...time images were compressed to help speed the file transfer and these images were then compared to the original non-compressed images. Two attending radiologists, one radiology resident and a medical student reviewed both sets of images, and in 64% of the cases, they could not tell the difference between the ...Scientists observe infectious prion proteins invade and move within brain cells
...ne cell to another that allow infectious prions to transfer between cells? What happens to the infectious prion protein once it is transferred to another cell? How do the many different possible pathways that lead into cells determine what happens to prion protein; some pathways could lead to digestion by t...Location, access to trauma centers often inadequate, inefficient
...t, resuscitation, surgery, and stabilization, with transfer to a level I or II center when indicated." The researchers found that an estimated 69.2 percent and 84.1 percent of U.S. residents had access to a level I or II trauma center within 45 and 60 minutes, respectively. Residents in the northeastern r...Promising new TB drug enters clinical trial
...search Triangle Park, NC, that provided technology transfer assistance and project management of preclinical testing of the compound A contract to Ian Orme, Ph.D., of Colorado State University that confirmed the efficacy of the compound in animal models of TB infection "Several characteristics of PA-824 that...Students revamp tractor for use by workers with disabilities
...e user can start the engine with a remote control, transfer to the lift and raise the seat via a hand control. At cab level, the operator can fold down a ramp, grab onto handholds and slide into the driver's seat. To enable a person who is paraplegic to operate the tractor, the students modified an electronic...Planned home births in the United States are safe, say researchers
...and over 87% of mothers and babies did not require transfer to hospital. "Our study of certified professional midwives suggests that they achieve good outcomes among low risk women without routine use of expensive hospital interventions," say the authors. "This evidence supports the American Public Health As...Italian law on ART brings problems for doctors and patients
...years. "Our results showed that the requirement to transfer all the embryos obtained, without any selection, h...cant reduction in pregnancy rates per fresh embryo transfer compared to the same solar period one year before. He was sure, however, that a significant decrea...Rise in ICSI cycles suggests infertility could be affecting more men than women
...to implant only one embryo [elective single embryo transfer eSET], and in 70% of all transfers only one or tw...nd and Sweden have demonstrated that single embryo transfer can be introduced on a national level without a decline in the ongoing pregnancy rate, but with a ma...Harvard scientists report public health impact of 1990 Iraq invasion of Kuwait
...hat global public health will not be advanced by a transfer of funds to Kuwait, it is important that international organizations such as the UN establish the precedent that public health impacts are fully compensable," said Evans. "It is well established that individuals may recover compensation for the loss......Jan. 1, 2007. Updates to USPNF will automatically transfer to the USP Pharmacists' Pharmacopeia in subsequent supplements and editions....MRSA is a global problemperspectives from around the world
...their MRSA infection becomes apparent. "Inter-city transfer of patients has encouraged national MRSA spread", says Barry Cookson, of the Health Protection Agency. However, MSRA is not only a problem within hospitals. The emergence of community-acquired MRSA is presenting a new challenge in many countries. Thi...Military funds research on how nicotine impairs bone healing
...rve messages carried by acetylcholine, nACHRs must transfer signals from the outer surface of the cells they o... separates the outside and inside of cells. nACHRs transfer nerve messages by allowing charged particles (e.g. calcium ions) to flow through their gateways, whi...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, Issue 4
...t can also increase the amount of air a person can transfer in and out of their lungs each minute by up to 6L/min. Improvements in fitness were seen by a 6.27 watt increase in work capacity and an average increase in maximum heart rate of more than 3 beats per minute. All these changes are clinically importan...Nanoscale study gives new insight into heat transfer in biological systems
...ors, the nature of the interface could affect heat transfer between them." Garde and Keblinski performed molec... Keblinski and Garde, is to focus on studying heat transfer between proteins and water, which will give them a better understanding of how water governs protein...Lipids play important role in nervous system development
...says. Before this new work, what the blocked lipid transfer protein regulated was still a mystery. The lipids ...t the right time and place by phosphatidylinositol transfer protein-α, which humans also have. It's been known that many proteins can be regulated, especial...Innovate or perish? Helping developing countries fight neglected diseases
...as had an enormously positive impact on technology transfer by universities. This single piece of legislation...k because of the expense of maintaining technology transfer offices in each university," said Mahoney, "but larger countries, e.g. India, seem to think it can w...