Floods and fires across Europe captured from space
...g and expensive. With inundated areas typically visible from space, Earth Observation (EO) is increasingly... are among the worst hit areas. Major fires are visible from space satellites detect not only the smoke billowing from major conflagrations but also the bu...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
...t they detect (x-ray) photons rather than give off visible light. Because of the small size of their detection elements, these panels have the capacity for extraordinarily high resolution in all directions. The researchers compare images from a traditional CT and the MiniCAT for imaging of the temporal ...Study offers clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'
... clogged arteries or unstable plaques that are not visible on coronary angiography. These findings will help guide long-term treatment. "Because we don't yet know what causes this phenomenon, we don't know what the best long-term management should include," he said. "As we gather more information on these...Warts vaccine -- 1 of many in pipeline
...000 adults revealed four percent of people had had visible genital warts. Dr Jardine said men and women with genital warts who would like to take part in the trial could call 3240 5881 to learn more. All calls are handled in confidence....Plasmonics book gives overview of technology that could revolutionize computing
...plasmon waveguides operating at the frequencies of visible light and at terahertz frequencies....New reflux guidelines released
...h the fact that many of these patients do not have visible esophageal erosions, makes diagnosis and treatment of GERD a challenge. Furthermore, non-gastrointestinal entities, such as cardiac or pulmonary disease, may produce symptoms that are similar to those attributable to GERD. Some new technologies off...Mayo Clinic solves painful puzzle of UT ligament split tear in wrist
...per positions, and the crosswise rupture is easily visible through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). "The UT split tear is different, because the ligament is still attached to the bones on both ends, but is split open lengthwise," Dr. Berger continues. "The joint is stable, and the patient can have an MRI...Hospital errors rise 3 percent -- HealthGrades patient-safety study
... that not much progress has been made leading to a visible national impact. Our findings support this consensus. However, our findings also support that progress continues to be made at the top. Distinguished Hospitals for Patient Safety continue to lead the nation in providing safer careresulting in much lo...Nanoparticles can track cells deep within living organisms
...and only the nanoparticle-containing cells will be visible in the scan," he says. "That eliminates any background signal, which often interferes with medical imaging. Moreover, the lack of interference means we can measure very low amounts of the labeled cells and closely estimate their number by the brightn...Baum to receive IADR Oral Medicine & Pathology Award
...cientist, scholar, and mentor, who has made highly visible and significant contributions to the field of oral medicine and oral pathology. He has conducted sustained cutting-edge research focused on the pathogenesis and management of salivary gland and related oral medical disorders. Specifically, Dr. Baum h...IceSAR campaign provides glimpse of future Sentinel-1 images over ice
...ty and clarity of the different sea ice structures visible in the radar images. The dual-polarisation C-band images we collected a few days ago and closely mimic those of the future Sentinel-1 mission show an amazing variety of different ice floes. The different shapes and sizes are clearly distinguished in ...First ozone and nitrogen dioxide measurements from MetOp-A
...n a daily basis, and at a city-size scale. Clearly visible in this picture are high tropospheric nitrogen dioxide concentrations over large urban and industrial areas of Europe. Note that the pollution patterns seen on a daily basis are also affected by the prevailing weather conditions and the resulting mov...What do we know about asthma in Africa?
...aninum) Attached to the Intestinal Mucosa - Barely visible larvae penetrate the skin (often through bare feet), are carried to the lungs, go through the respiratory tract to the mouth, are swallowed, and eventually reach the small intestine. This journey takes about a week. (Photo: CDC) CONTACT: Matias Wjs...Revealing secret intentions in the brain
...e future. The trick by which the invisible is made visible lies in a new method called "multivariate pattern recognition". A computer is programmed to recognize characteristic activation patterns in the brain that typically occur in association with specific thoughts. Once this computer has been "trained" it...Imaging technique is highly accurate in diagnosing, locating pancreas defects in newborns
...s. [18F]-DOPA binds to the lesions, which then are visible to the naked eye on a body scanner. "When we compared our findings from the PET scan with pathological results, we found 100 percent agreement in locating the focal lesions," said Olga T. Hardy, M.D., a pediatric endocrinologist at Children's Hospi...New research brings initial find of Alois Alzheimer to fore once again
...today's best imaging technologies. While the first visible symptom of Alzheimer's may be a person forgetting names or faces, the very first physical change is actually a decline in the amount of blood that flows in the brain. Doctors have found that not only is blood flow within the brain reduced, but that t...BC physicists transmit visible light through miniature cable
..., Jan 8 Physicists at Boston College have beamed visible light through a cable hundreds of times smaller th...r than its wavelength. In fact, the BC team forced visible light, which has a wavelength of between 380-750 nanometers, to travel down a cable whose diameter i......detected four cancers, and three of these were not visible on a mammogram. "Although these initial results are very exciting, we clearly need to image more patients to confirm the promise of the device," says Dr. Rhodes. She says the team hopes to complete the ongoing trial in the next two years....Antibiotic ear drops favored over popular oral antibiotics for ear infections
...ears who had ear tubes, middle ear infections, and visible drainage in the ear. Both the oral and topical antibiotics cure the infections in more than 70 percent of cases. But the topical drops resolved the ear drainage three to five days faster and resulted in more clinical cures overall 85 percent for tho......es get concentrated on the narrow strip and become visible as a distinct red stripe on the test strip. "Our method is universal," stresses Lu. "Based on this principle, we should be able to develop rapid tests for the emergency diagnosis of a large number of drugs and poisons, as well as physiological mole...