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Project Summary Abstract Millions of people in the US misuse opioids each yearleading to thousands of deaths and costing billions of dollars in total economic burdenMedication assisted treatmentMATfor opioid use disorderOUDis highly efficaciousbut only a fraction of OUD persons access MATand treatment non adherence is common and associated with poor outcomesThis STTR Fast Track proposal is designe ...

Development Commercialization of a Sensing Device to Detect Vaping Summary The use of e cigarettes or vaping has been steadily increasing since its introductionWhile potentially a tool to wean cigarette smokers from combustible tobaccoone consequence of the introduction of these devices has been the adoption of vaping by adolescentsWhile companies that offer vaping instruments for sale note that t ...

Abstract Accurately diagnosing epilepsy is very challenging and time consuming because clinicians rarely observe the actual seizure, and there are many different types of seizures and epilepsy syndromes with differing presentations. Furthermore, other neurological disorders can be mimics of seizures leading to erroneous diagnosis, inappropriate treatments with significant potential adverse events, ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACTUltrasound isand is poised to remaina ubiquitous biomedical imaging modalityIt is safefasteffectiveand affordableUltrasound imaging innovations are being actively developed to provide inexpensive solutions to public health concerns in areas as diverse as early cancer detectiontargeted drug deliveryand image guided surgeryYet significant barriers to research and innovation i ...

With this phase I submissionIsoPlexis proposes to deliver comprehensive profiling of the immune system as a measure of age dependent health in response to medical challenges or traumaThis assay will connect signaling events in the metabolome and proteome from thousands of single cells in parallel enabling the simultaneous tracking of metabolic activity and protein signaling within each immune cell ...

Project Abstract The opioid epidemic is the U S andapos s most widespread behavioral public health problemwith a higher number of deaths due to drug overdose incompared to deaths due to HIV at the peak of the AIDS epidemicMedication assisted treatmentMATfor opioid use disorderOUDis highly efficaciousHoweveronly a fraction of persons with OUD access MATand treatment non adherence and drop out is co ...

Executive Summary of Predicate (One Page) Summary of Specific Aims of Phase I Specific Aim 1: Train and evaluate an algorithm to detect pediatric asthma symptoms (cough and wheeze) on a low power, small form factor wearable device. Specifications: 90% sensitivity; false alarm rate: 1 cough episode/day or 1 wheeze episode/day. Evaluate algorithm against medical expert (physician) scoring using the ...

Project Summary / Abstract: COVID-19, the clinical presentation associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection, has already profoundly impacted healthcare systems globally. Of particular note, communities such as long-term care facilities, assisted living communities, and prisons, are being devastated because of their high density of vulnerable individuals. Nursing home residents, which represent only 0.5% ...

Seventeen million people each year suffer from an ischemic stroke and millions are left dead and disabledTreatment with recombinant tissue plasminogen activatorr tPAis only modestly effective at reducing disability and it is associated with brain hemorrhage in up toof patients when serial imaging studies are performedBrain hemorrhage causes death and disability andis the major cause of early morta ...

The high spatial resolution and energy resolution of cadmium zinc tellurideCZTand cadmium tellurideCdTecompared to that of scintillatorsoffers superior image quality in Nuclear medicine and X rayimaging applicationsi eSPECTPETCTBone DensitometryOncologyDental imagingAirportsecurityetcEven after two decades of researchCZT and CdTe remain the desired choice for roomtemperature radiation detectionbut ...