A new technology is helping the blind to travel independently. The users were able to navigate an unfamiliar building and transit stops, increasing their spatial information, use of public transit and independence. The results of the final phase of a three-year project by geographers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will be reported at an annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Honolulu, Hawaii. Reginald Golledge, professor of geography at the UC, Santa Barbara, and graduate student James Marston found that blind persons with as little as five minutes of training were able to use receivers to locate ticket machines, exits, information windows and telephones more quickly than those without receivers.
Studies show more people are dying of tuberculosis than ever before.
She will report the findings at a World TB Day training course for health care staff in California state prisons and local health departments in Fresno. The Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center is a joint project of the San Francisco Department of Public Health and the University of California, San Francisco. Researchers will test a cancer drug on humans. The drug is endostatin, a promising cancer treatment that appears to work in part by disrupting the growth of blood vessels that nourish tumor cells, a process called angiogenesis. In animal studies, endostatin inhibited the growth of already existing tumors and caused some to shrink to microscopic lesions.