Cancer patients hide their use of complementary and alternative treatments from their doctors
...iation Therapy (RT)," will be available for poster viewing starting at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, October 16, 2005. If you would like a copy of the abstract or you would like to speak to the lead author of the study, Neha Vapiwala, M.D., please call Beth Bukata or Nick Lashinsky October 16-20 in the ASTRO Press R...Breast conserving treatment an option for women with implants
...y Augmented Patients" will be available for poster viewing starting at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, October 16, 2005. If you would like a copy of the abstract, or would like to speak to the lead author of the study, Rosalyn Morrell, M.D., please call Beth Bukata or Nick Lashinsky October 16-20 in the ASTRO Press Ro...How does increased television watching 'weigh into' childhood obesity?
...te University of New York evaluated the television viewing behaviors of 173 girls and their parents. At both...delines. Parents who relied heavily on television viewing as a recreational activity reported higher levels of television watching with their daughters. Girl......ation of real surgery. Add to that a stereoscopic viewing system and doctors can see, and feel, the surgery during the planning stage. The haptic and virtual reality systems can also be voice controlled using simple commands. "A doctor would say 'I'm cutting the skin' or, 'I'm lifting the muscle', and the h...Mirrors can trick the brain into recovering from persistent pain, research suggests
... same time, and then in opposite directions whilst viewing the mirror reflection of one hand. Within 20 seconds of starting, more than two thirds of people involved in the trial reported some kind of sensation in their hidden limb when the movement they were seeing in the mirror was different to what they we...Drug may fight lupus and atherosclerosis simultaneously
...ined less cholesterol. Scientists increasingly are viewing the depositing of cholesterol in the walls of arteries as an inflammatory reaction that attracts the disease-fighting macrophages, a type of white blood cell, which then become incorporated with cholesterol deposits to become plaque. The mice that ha...Feinstein Institute neuroscientist wins top honor in Parkinson's research
...on's disease, including pioneering new methods for viewing the brain at work, early diagnosis of disease, and predicting and evaluating response to various treatments. "When we began working on network analysis and brain imaging, we never thought that the results would have yielded so many interesting insigh...Breast CT is more comfortable than mammography and may detect tumors better, research shows
...nements in patient positioning and improvements in viewing techniques and radiologist training will be required to optimally generate and interpret the breast CT image data." If the current trial confirms that breast CT does as well as mammography, the next step will be a larger trial comparing the two techn...Research review finds tobacco scenes in movies boost teen smoking
...e review of research on the link between teenagers viewing on-screen smoking and then taking up smoking thems...atrics, examined the findings of 42 studies on how viewing on-screen smoking affects adolescent and teen smoking behavior. Among the conclusions: U.S. movi...Sooner is better with cochlear implants, Stanford scientist shows
...." It is impossible to hear the proper sound while viewing the speaker's lips, noted Knudsen. Knudsen and Fox wondered if children born deaf would experience the McGurk effect after receiving cochlear implants. Funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the American He...Comforting behavior mistaken for movement disorder
...pisodes come on when a child is tired or bored. By viewing the episodes video-taped by parents, Mink was able to determine that the children were not having seizures nor were they suffering from paroxysmal dystonic posturing. One child was distracted out of the episode with the promise of a cookie. Another s...Virtual microscopy project wins educational technology award
...g to the researchers, all steps from processing to viewing of virtual slides parallel the management of aeria...rtual microscopy system that allows fast web-based viewing of full resolution virtual slides. Virtual microscopy can be of educational value in all fields were...Researchers develop new method for studying 'mental time travel'
...t matched the patterns associated with the initial viewing of the images. The researchers found that patterns of brain activity for specific categories, such as faces, started to emerge approximately five seconds before subjects recalled items from that category -- suggesting that participants were bringing ...Blacks' lower rate of lung cancer surgery not just due to access to care issues
...ocedures included bronchoscopy, the insertion of a viewing tube into the lungs, and mediastinoscopy and thora...chest wall under general anesthesia, through which viewing scopes are placed. Blacks were 25 percent less likely than whites to have staging examinations. But ...Alcohol advertising may contribute to increased drinking among young people
...d and 588 in the fourth. Young adults who reported viewing more alcohol advertisements on average also reported drinking more alcohol on average--each additional advertisement viewed per month increased the number of drinks consumed by 1 percent. The same percentage increase, 1 percent per advertisement per...First impressions of beauty may demonstrate why the pretty prosper
...ch as "laughter" or "happiness," were faster after viewing an attractive face. "In a way, pretty faces are rewarding; they make us more likely to think good thoughts," said Olson. "There are some underlying processes going on in the brain that prejudice us to respond to attractive people better even if we ...Working memory retains visual details despite distractions
... which involved just a 10-second delay between the viewing and the testing. According to Melcher, "These results provide further evidence that visual scenes are special and that memory for real scenes involves a system with different properties than that used for words or simple shapes. We are currently ex...Better funding needed for chronic disease
...s of chronic disease. "Given the right setting and viewing the strategy as a long-term plan, it could be an effective tool in improving the health care of Australians with chronic disease in the future," Professor Dowrick said....Humans ignore motion and other cues in favor of a fictional stable world
...ike this. Computer-generated vision has shown that viewing a scene with two eyes, or walking around it, provides enough information to calculate its 3D structure. To find out how far away things are by this method, however, requires knowledge of the separation of the eyes or the distance walked. There is goo...The dual functions of sight perception and action demonstrated for first time
... even though the subjects were in a passive state, viewing only video clips presenting actions by others, and were not involved in any way with the activities being screened. What this suggests is that there is an interrelationship between guiding of our own actions and understanding actions taken by others...