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Location 101-A Market Street CHAPEL HILL, NC 27516 United States N44DA0900003 $749 964.00 2 009 WEB BASED TRAINING FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT PROVIDERS Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health SBIR PHS2009-1 Clinical Tools, Inc Phase ...

The current methodology for testing the penetration resistance of textile materials to various chemical agents has a number of drawbacks, including significant uncertainties in the resulting data, inefficiency and expense, risk to test personnel, and limited range of test conditions. The objective of the proposed work is to apply unique computer models for textiles with accompanying experimental ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Estimates of antenatal and postpartum depression vary from 7 percent to upwards of 30 percent depending on criteria for depression, the type of assessment used, and the timing of the assessment. Thus, approximately 320,000 to over 1 million women each year experience symptoms of perinatal depression. Estimates of antenatal depression are harder to obtain becaus ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Gastrointestinal motility disorders are a significant health problem accounting for millions of physician visits each year. In many patients, measurement of gastrointestinal transit can provide important diagnostic information. However, current transit measurement techniques involve radiation and cannot make the long-duration, highly-detailed recordings needed ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall objective of the proposed work is to reduce the cost of accelerator produced F-18 radiopharmaceuticals used in Positron Emission Tomography (PET), a Medicare-reimbursed nuclear medicine metabolic imaging modality used to diagnose, stage, and restage ten cancer indications. Annual PET scans (350,000+) are rapidly increasing, but CMS reimbursement ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In psychiatry, perhaps more than in any other field of medicine, diagnosis depends on clinical judgment, as there exist few physiological markers of specific psychiatric illnesses. Structured interview methods, such as the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV-TR (SCID), yield more accurate and reliable diagnostic judgments than do the type of unstructured p ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall objective of the proposed work is to reduce the cost of accelerator produced F-18 radiopharmaceuticals used in Positron Emission Tomography (PET), a Medicare-reimbursed nuclear medicine metabolic imaging modality used to diagnose, stage, and restage ten cancer indications. Annual PET scans (350,000+) are rapidly increasing, but CMS reimbursement ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Decades of research in developmental psychopathology support the significant and unique contribution of social problems in the emergence of a myriad of later negative outcomes, including heightened risk for psychiatric disorders and use of mental health services. This Phase II project continues the research and development (R&D) of an innovative social and beha ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A novel antifungal chemical has been identified that is capable of killing Trichophyton rubrum with high sensitivity. The antifungal activity is specific for dermatophyte and not other fungi. Structural characteristics of the antifungal agent that determine its activity have been identified. Human testing will be conducted to determine the effectiveness of the ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In response to published NIDA research topics calling for innovation in educational programs aimed at substance abuse prevention, the proposed project will develop and empirically tested media literacy alcohol and tobacco use prevention curriculum with use with children in grades three through five. The curriculum will contain goals, lesson plan scripts and act ...