Mapping in Medical News

Elekta Chosen to Deliver Sophisticated Brain Mapping Technology to the Mind Research Network

ATLANTA, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mind Research Network (MRN) will bring world-leading technology to Albuquerque, with the acquisition of an Elekta Neuromag(R), a device for non-invasive measurement of brain activity using Magnetoencephalography (MEG) technology. MRN has been utilizing M...

Elsevier and Brain Mapping Foundation co-host 6th Annual World Congress of IBMISPS

Amsterdam, April 6, 2009 Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services and Brain Mapping Foundation, announced today that it will Co-host the 6th Annual World Congress for Brain Mapping and Image Guided Therapy, August 26-29, 2009 at ...

Global Mapping Tool Demonstrates Medical Donation Impact

Google Map Technology Enhances First Global Medical Donations Map WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD) Mapping Tool, now available at www.pqmd.org , provides unprecedented access to information about the medical product dona...

Deep brain mapping to isolate evidence of Gulf War syndrome

DALLAS Researchers at Southern Methodist University in Dallas are pioneering the use of spatial statistical modeling to analyze brain scan data from Persian Gulf War veterans, aiming to pinpoint specific areas of the their brains affected by Gulf War Syndrome. Richard Gunst, Wayne Woodward and ...

First-Ever Mapping of Cancer Patient's Genome

Study of leukemia patient's DNA may lead to routine gene scans, experts say WEDNESDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- In a genetics first, researchers report that they have decoded the complete DNA sequence of a person with acute myelogenous leukemia. There were some surprises -- eight...

Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David's Medical Center First in the Nation to Use a New Generation of Medical Robots for Complex Electrophysiology Mapping Procedures

CoHesion(TM) 3D Visualization Module Improves Physician Accuracy And Reduces Radiation Exposure for Patients AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, doctors at the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute (TCAI) at St. David's Medical Center became the first in the nation ...

Language centers revealed, brain surgery refined with new mapping

Neurosurgeons from the University of California, San Francisco are reporting significant results of a new brain mapping technique that allows for the safe removal of tumors near language pathways in the brain. The technique minimizes brain exposure and reduces the amount of time a patient must be...

Child-Proof: Brain Mapping Safer for Children than Previously Thought

Dispelling a stubborn myth, researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that children with strokes, brain tumors and other cerebrovascular diseases can safely// undergo a potentially life-saving brain-mapping test that many doctors have long shunned over concerns for side effects. Analysis of 241 cereb...

Project Aims at Mapping Genetic Changes Towards Cancer

The National Institute of Health has said that it will undertake the subjects of brain tumors, ovarian cancer and lung cancer to sequence all the genetic changes that lead to cancer.// The agency has said that it hoped the Cancer Genome Atlas project will pinpoint hundreds or thousands of new ge...

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy aids in mapping protein structure

New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has outlined the procedure// to gauge the strength of hydrogen bonds in proteins, the building blocks of life. The study was conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemists led by John Markley, Professo...

Brain mapping technique to explain sleep

Researchers from US and Japan have been able to identify a type of neuron that is responsible for keeping the living //beings awake. By tracking the nerve cells in rats, the researchers had found that the identified type of neuron receives inhibitory signals during night that makes them inactive, a...

Hunger Mapping

In a study published in the August issue of the journal Neuron, published by Cell Press, researchers at Duke University Medical Center, Ivan de Araujo and colleagues,// have mapped the activity of whole groups of neurons involved in hunger-satiety-hunger cycle in multiple feeding-related brain area...

Researchers from Emory University Undertake A New Genetic Mapping

Researchers from Atlanta have announced that in a new project they've begun to draw out a new kind of genetic data that may help explain why some people// are susceptible or resistant to certain diseases. It has been reported that the synopsis of the project that is being undertaken by the re...

Featherstone Informatics Group, Inc. Named Exclusive Vendor for the American College of Cardiology's Practice-Based Data Registry Program

...e-of-the-art workflow management and automation solution known as FIGMD Workflow Manager at practices throughout the nation and will assist the ACC in mapping and extracting clinical data from the practice's health record systems. The ACC will take the extracted data and employ their proprietary analysis and...

Can brain scans read your mind?

...rnal Psychological Science . In the study, 130 healthy young adults had their brains scanned in an MRI scanner at UCLA's AhmansonLovelace Brain mapping Center while they performed one of eight mental tasks, including reading words aloud, saying whether pairs of words rhyme, counting the number of tone...

CareFusion Expands Pyxis(R) Perioperative Solutions Offering

...upply technologies and successful supply management. Value Stream mapping services guide hospitals through Lean transformation by helping them identi...oard and Pyxis((R)) SupplyCenter server Item Master and Value Stream mapping services About CareFusion Corporation CareFusion C...

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and FORMA Therapeutics Enter Collaboration to Bring New Therapies to Patients Faster

...d to have the most promise of advancing into clinical trials in the shortest period of time. FORMA will use its proprietary Computational Solvent (CS) mapping technology to aid in structure based drug design with expert computer modeling, screening and medicinal chemistry competence to optimize and prioritiz...

Management Health Solutions, Inc. Announces Optimal Inventory Control™ (OptIC™) Solution

...perts to ensure clinical inventory data is reliable and drives smart decisions. Working with your data, MHS provides process improvement strategies by mapping the supply process flow and supports handheld technology automation to maintain PAR levels and drive re-ordering. OptIC™ creates considerabl...

Council for American Medical Innovation Applauds Appointment of Geneticist Francis Collins to Head National Institutes of Health

...tor of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), Dr. Collins oversaw an international effort of groundbreaking discoveries that led to the mapping of the genetic code, what Collins referred to as "the book of human life." His work has transformed medicine and contributed to medical treatments and...

Study identifies potential fix for damaged knees

...t it used serial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and newer quantitative T2 mapping to examine how the plug incorporated itself into the knee. The research, ab...s well. "What is unique about this study is that we have serial MRI with T2 mapping at various time points after surgery, which allows us to really examine the...

Sentry Data Systems Announces Claims Guardian(TM)

...utliers categorized by risk. Identification of missed billing opportunities based on identifying "orphan" charges and mapping inconsistencies. Documentation of actual invoice costs matched to submitted charges on claims. ...

HIV 'Atlas' Shows Virus Targeting Minorities

.... In a way, the new level of reporting on HIV incidence is simply catching up with monitoring routinely done for other diseases. "We have been mapping chronic disease now for about three to four years. We've mapped diabetes to the zip code level, cardiovascular disease and end-stage renal [kidney] di...

Standard IQ Test May Undervalue People With Autism

...e Wechsler scale, according to the study, in the June issue of Human Brain mapping . Also, MRIs done during the testing showed that autistic people had mor...h.D., chief of programs, Autism Society of America; June 2009, Human Brain mapping ...

Sentry Data Systems, Inc. Announces: Sentinel RCM(TM) - Now with Mobile Manager(TM) Included!

...ipments as they arrive. Mobile Manager(TM) complements Sentinel RCM's ordering gateway InventoryBOSS(TM) and the comprehensive hospital charge master mapping and decision support suite that knits together all key data points quickly and easily. "The addition of this functionality translates into enha...

BioInformatics, LLC New Report - Exploring the Epigenetics Market: Opportunities for Product Placement and Innovations

...e report is scheduled to release in mid-July, and is available at pre-release pricing until July 15, 2009. Advances enabling faster and cheaper mapping of epigenetic modifications have accelerated discoveries in the field. Since 2007, the National Institutes of Health has supported these efforts with ...

BBK Worldwide Foresees Expanding Global Demand for Patient Recruitment Technology

...cts and services of TCN e-Systems, including the BIO Notifier(SM) (BBK Investigator Opportunity Notification Service), GeoPopulation Analyzer(SM) (for mapping of study target patient populations), Center of Excellence (for institutionalizing patient recruitment knowledge), and QuickTrainer(SM) (online patien...

ANSi Answers When Awarded the Philadelphia Business Journal's Prestigious 2009 South Jersey 25 Accolade

...on include: Program Management Office (PMO) and Project Management, Process mapping and Re-engineering, Systems mapping and Architecture, Interim Chief Information Officer Solutions, and other te...

Study finds autistics better at problem-solving

...ster at problem-solving than non-autistics, according to a new Universit de Montral and Harvard University study published in the journal Human Brain mapping . As part of the investigation, participants were asked to complete patterns in the Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices (RSPM) test that measures h...

Mayo Genomic Discovery: Protecting Kidney Function During Heart Failure

...shortness of breath, exercise intolerance and fluid retention. All can occur when heart function is impaired. Seven Years of Research The mapping of the human genome (2000-2003) revealed a gene that produces a protein called BNP (B-type natriuretic peptide). BNP was not only useful in diagnosing...

New chemistry techniques improve hybrid scanner performance

...images in spite of the short half-life of C-11. The images showed excellent mapping of the liver and kidneys. C-11 methionine is known to accumulate in the pancreas, but it would have been difficult to image without clear mapping MR images. The use of Gadoextate as a contrast agent enhanced the power of ...

Actuaries Weigh in on Ways to Address Risk Exposures and Challenges with the U.S. Health Care System

...swire/ -- Many interested parties and organizations have provided recommendations on U.S. health care reform, but there is much to be done in terms of mapping out its future. As leading health care professionals, actuaries are looked to for their points of view on this important topic. Providing new health i...

Apollo Health Street Collaborates with Client to Develop a CCHIT-Certified 08 Ambulatory EMR

...tware development and maintenance partner, our matured processes encompass all the phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), starting from mapping business requirements into functional/technical specification to programming, testing and final deployment. With our unparalleled domain knowledg...

Genetic Links to Rare Liver Disease Found

...otypes of 536 patients with primary biliary cirrhosis with 1,536 people who did not have the disease. In the next phase, researchers conducted genetic mapping to confirm the initial results and to identify genetic variations closely associated with primary biliary cirrhosis. Siminovitch's group found vari...

Latest trinational report presents most complete picture of North American industrial pollution

... sector or geographic region. Taking Stock Online also provides interactive mapping of data search results using Google Maps, and features a North America-wide...nt data in Canada, Mexico and the United States. Using the Google Earth mapping service, the CEC's map layer displays about 35,000 North American industria...

ESRI Health GIS Conference to Feature Speakers Innovating Health Care

...sities. ESRI applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. ESRI is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us...

Cancer cells need normal, nonmutated genes to survive

...hout hurting normal cells in the body, though this needs to be tested in tumor models." "This type of functional approach complements the physical mapping of cancer genomes, but provides a much more direct path to new anti-cancer drug targets," adds Luo. "The genes that are critical for maintaining the m...

Milliman Care Guidelines(R) Products Drive Efficiency Through Expanded Quality Tools

...(R) 13th Edition. Milliman Care Guidelines has integrated diagnosis-specific national quality measures within the Care Guidelines' workflow by mapping its clinical content to national quality standards and accreditation requirements; enhancing variance-tracking and workflow tools; and expanding educa...

There's a sensor in your pocket

...el patterns, collecting data on the impacts of climate change on local plant life, sensing of pollution sources by community and grassroots groups, mapping optimal routes for bicycle commuters, and, using mobile phones to improve eldercare. Central to the concept is that individuals decide what data...

Veterans Health Administration Selects Essi Systems as Sole Source Provider to Reduce Workplace Stress

...ulting company offering stress, resiliency, emotional intelligence and leadership solutions to organizations worldwide. Essi uses behavior change and mapping technologies, brain science research, and 25 years of experience to deliver scientifically tested, results-based, scalable products and services that ...

MMRF and the Broad Institute to perform whole genome sequencing of multiple myeloma samples

...tnership with the Broad Institute and the Translational Genomics Research Institute the Multiple Myeloma Genomics Initiative a comprehensive genome mapping program to identity new targets and eventually new therapies for this incurable disease," said Kathy Giusti, Founder and CEO of the MMRF, and a multip...