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DESCRIPTION In communities across the United States clinical populations exhibiting mental health and or substance abuse disorders face substantial challenges in accessing and receiving high quality and effective behavioral healthcare services Health Information technology HIT has been identified as an important component of improving access to behavioral healthcare in rural communities yet t ...

Influenza A viruses belong to the orthomyxoviridae family with a negative sense segmented RNA genome which can cause seasonal or pandemic flu with high morbidity and significant mortality Vaccination is the most prevalent prophylactic means for controlling influenza infections However an effective vaccine usually takes at least months to develop for the circulating strains Furthermore vac ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Drug resistant bacteria such as MRSA and airborne transmitted microbes such as influenza and TB together present major health issues both in the developed and the developing world with major health care and economic consequences Recent research from Columbia University Medical Center demonstrated that single wavelength far UVC photons can kill bacteria a ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Type diabetes T D is a chronic disease caused by the autoimmune destruction of the insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas Current treatment options for T D are severely limited All patients diagnosed with T DM are placed on life long insulin therapy and the current standard of care for adult patients with T DM is intensive diabetes therapy to avoid ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Surgical resection of brain neoplasms aims at maximizing long term survival by gross total resection of tumor tissue while preserving the patientandapos s functional status Task based functional MRI fMRI is increasingly used as an adjunct to intra operative electrocorticography for mapping eloquent cortex but suffers a significant failure rate due to funct ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to HIV and account for one quarter of all new infections each year Most new infections among adolescents occur among young men who have sex with men YMSM Transmission of HIV can be virtually eliminated by treatment but testing rates are low and a significant proportion of YMSM are unaware of their HIV status P ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Alcohol misuse is a significant public health problem not only in the US but around the world Just in the US alcohol misuse is estimated to be the second cause of preventable death at a cost of more than $ billion in a single year Further it is also estimated that it reduces the lives of those who died by years Screening and brief interventions have ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Age related memory loss is a growing public health issue which will be magnified in the coming decades by increasing life expectancies and the aging baby boomer population Age is the most important risk factor for developing dementia of the population between and has some form of dementia between and and of those or older The the ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The Cell SafeTM is a fundamentally new approach in replacement of dysfunctional insulin producing cells in patients with diabetes by transplantation of new islets in a three dimensional scaffold embedded in a highly compatible bioengineered perfusion system that continuously supplies tissue fluid blood ultrafiltrate so that the cells ae protected from immun ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantThe goal of this SBIR project is to develop a minimally intrusivehighly sensitive risk stratification tool to determine the need for invasive pancreatic cancerPCscreeningPC is theth leading cause of cancer deaths in the USWhile early stage disease is generally curablethe vast majority of patients are diagnosed in advancedunresectable stages due in large part to the ...