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Despite significance advances in anti retroviral treatments HIV associated neurocognitive disorder HAND remains prevalent and can affect a broad range of everyday activities An effective brief cognitive screen that could be implemented in busy HIV clinics where clinicians have limited time to provide care for patients with complex medical psychiatric and cognitive conditions has the poten ...

Location FOCALCOOL, LLC 25 LYNNFIELD DR EAST WINDSOR, NJ 08520 United States 2R44HL088789-02A1 $939 644.00 2 008 A cooling guide catheter for rapid heart cooling Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health SBIR N N N PHS2007-2 FO ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long term goal of this project is improvement in the quality of acupuncture treatment. This will be accomplished by developing a tool (the Acusensor) capable of tracking acupuncture needle movement and force interac tions. The Acusensor will be applied immediately to improve acupuncture training and research, which will lead to improvements in clinical prac ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This goal of this SBIR project is to quantify and validate the feasibility and potential for a non- obtrusive, wearable, in-shoe gait-monitoring device for children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). It is hypothesized that continuous monitoring and analysis of simple gait parameters in children with CP outside the clinical laboratory and during normal daily activities ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This Phase II SBIR extends a Phase I proof of principle study originally submitted in response to RFA AG entitled andquot T Translational Research on Agingandquot from the NIA In Phase I LaCell has documented pre clinical safety and efficacy of a novel adipose derived cell therapy for the treatment of pressure ulcers in young and old mice The inject ...

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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this work is to develop an antibody-doxorubicin conjugate for the targeted therapy of B-cell cancers that express the CD74 antigen. The Phase II project will focus on advancing this product for multiple myel oma, a common plasma cell malignancy that is incurable at this time. The average 5-year survival rate for these patients is only 30%, and there ...

Smoking is the most common preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States Each year smoking causes the premature death of over Americans and $ billion of economic damage Effective treatment is possible but barriers to its implementation limits the success rate of smoking cessation in the general population to about Notably reward based incentive smoking cessat ...

PROJECT SUMMARY OBJECTIVES Americans experience a CVA yearly More intensive rehabilitation early sub acute post CVA was found to produce better recovery The first objective is the development of a relatively low cost medical device with small clinical footprint The BrightArm C BAC is a compact robotic table with bimanual hand controllers that track full D arm movement measure finge ...

A NEW PROCESS CALLED THE NELSON FILTER SYSTEMIS CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT. THE NELSON FILTER SYSTEM IS AN ADVANCED DRY SCRUBBING SYSTEM THAT REMOVES SIMULTANEOUSLY BOTH SO2 AND NOX FROM FLUE GASES. IT IS VERY EFFECTIVE, HAVING DEMON-STRATED REPEATEDLY IN LABORATORY TESTS 99.9% SO2 AND OVER 90% NO2 REMOVAL. IT IS ENVIRONMENTALLY ATTRACTIVE IN THAT NO SLUDGE OR TROUBLESOME WASTES ARE PRODUCED. IT ...