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Potential Medical Applications For Interactive Data Eyeglasses
For car designers, secret agents in the movies and jet fighter pilots, data eyeglasses - also called head-mounted displays, or HMDs for short - are everyday objects. They transport the wearer into virtual worlds or provide the user with data from the real environment. At present these devices can only display information. "We want to make the eyeglasses bidirectional and interactive so that new areas of application can be opened up," says Dr. Michael Scholles, business unit manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS in Dresden. A group of scientists at IPMS is working on a device which incorporates eye tracking - users can influence the content presented by moving their eyes or fixing on certain points in the image. Without having to use any other devices to enter instructions, the wearer can display new content, scroll through the menu or shift picture elements. Scholles believes that the bidirectional data eyeglasses will yield advantages wherever people need to consult additional information but do not have their hands free to operate a keyboard or mouse. The Dresden-based researchers have integrated their system"s eye tracker and image reproduction on a CMOS chip. This makes the HMDs small, light, easy to manufacture and inexpensive.
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Pharmasset, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRUS) announced that it had completed the single ascending dose study and begun dosing in a multiple ascending dose trial with PSI-7851, a nucleotide analog polymerase inhibitor for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. This study is designed to assess the safety, tolerability and antiviral activity of PSI-7851 over 3 days in HCV-infected individuals.
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AACAP Applauds AMA's Support For Universal Vaccinations

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) applauds the American Medical Association (AMA) for reaffirming its policy in support for universal vaccination. Leadership at the AMA has agreed to continue its ongoing efforts to assist physicians and other health care professionals to effectively communicate to patients, parents, and policy makers that vaccines do not cause autism and that the decreasing immunization rates have resulted in a resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases and deaths. "Even though there is still need for the scientific understanding for the increased incidence of autism, there is not a causal relationship that is supported by science regarding vaccines and autism," said Louis Kraus, M.D., AACAP Alternate Delegate to the AMA House of Delegates and a member of the AMA"s Council on Science and Public Health. "The AMA has spoken clearly on this issue. There"s no evidence that vaccines cause autism, and there is evidence that more kids are getting seriously ill from preventable diseases as a result of decreased rates of immunization," said David Fassler, M.D., AACAP Delegate to the AMA House of Delegates. Despite public education initiatives, many parents remain concerned about the safety of vaccines. "It is important that the medical community reassure parents that vaccinating their children is the right thing to do," said Dr. Kraus. Autism is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by patterns of delay and deviance in the development of social, communicative, and cognitive skills. The cause of autism remains unknown, although current theories indicate a problem with the structure or function of the central nervous system. For more information on autism, visit the eAACAP Re Center on Autism. American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry


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