Telemedicine Week

Medtronic, Inc. - Surgical instrumentation designed for closed-chest bypass surgery introduced

Mersin University - Endothelin-1 may be related to atherosclerosis in myocardial bridging

MeTa Informatics - Automatic methods devised for analyzing chemical shift perturbation NMR spectra

New York University - Amyloid-targeting PET ligand facilitates diagnosis

NewsAnalyzer - FDA clears resorbable spinal plate and screw system with radiopaque marker

Northwestern University - Surface plasmon resonance nanosensor rivals commercially available sensors

Odense University Hospital - Smoking acutely affects LV function in patients with ischemic heart disease

Palatin Technologies - Biopharmaceutical company receives milestone payment from Mallinckrodt Imaging

Prostate Cancer - Radiation plus short-term hormone drugs improve prostate cancer

Recom Managed Systems, Inc. - Duke University to evaluate 12-lead ambulatory heart monitoring system

Siemens Corp. Research, Princeton - Real-time myocardial border tracking for echocardiography is effective

Siemens Medical Solutions - Klein Biomedical Consultants ranks ultrasound companies by revenues

Stanford University Medical Center - Study finds portions of brain are smaller in children born prematurely

Sunnybrook and Women's College - Some regions of brain atrophy differ between sexes

TechniScan, Inc. - Founder of Imatron joins board of directors of imaging company

Tokyo Medical and Dental University - Inflammatory cytokines play a major role in the resorption of herniated discs

Trestle Holdings, Inc. - Digital imaging company completes $4.5 million private placement of stock

Tufts University - Novel mannose-binding protein of Acanthamoeba characterized

U.S. Food & Drug Administration - Autoclave sterilization produces acrylamide in rodent diets

Univ. of Texas School of Medicine, Houston - Intracardiac and transesophageal echocardiography can size interarterial defects

University College London - Bayres factors are used to compare dynamic causal models

University of California, Los Angeles - Electrical sensing of spin-flips is demonstrated

University of Florence - Infarct size and severity correlate with left ventricular ejection fraction

University of Freiburg - Secretin increases extracellular hippocampal amino acid levels

University of Michigan - Imaging modalities compared in lateral ankle ligament reconstruction

University of Naples "Federico II" - Stationary phase affects IAM-HPLC prediction of drug-membrane interactions

University of Nijmegen - New algorithm aids in breast cancer detection

University of Pennsylvania - Reproducibility of micro-MRI trabecular bone measures evaluated

University of Sydney - New screening technologies need further evaluation

University of Ulster - Insulinotropic peptides isolated from frog skin

Varian Medical Systems, Inc. - Automated robotic tools for real-time tumor targeting get FDA clearance

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Subcutaneous obesity is not associated with sympathetic neural activation

Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. - Novel antifungal compound derived from Phoma species