Schizophrenia has different sub-types linked to problems in different parts of the brain
... symptoms were similar to those of the psychiatric diagnostic manual's (DSM-IV) "disorganized schizophrenia" subtype: They had problems maintaining attention, organizing their thoughts, and expressing ideas in a coherent and logical manner. These patients also had structural and functional pathology in their...SNM collaboration yields diagnostic nuclear medicine guide for compliance with NRC regulations
...e release of a unique, one-stop reference work for diagnostic nuclear medicine professionals who want to bring t...sing of byproduct materials across the spectrum of diagnostic practice. The revised rule is intended to be less prescriptive than the current rule. The most signi...UT Southwestern, Children's Medical Center to test new rapid diagnostic equipment
...sitive for meningitis or whooping cough, new rapid diagnostic testing equipment will provide doctors at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and Children's Medical Center of Dallas with an answer in a few hours. A one-year, $435,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to Children's wil...Seeing into the Alzheimers brain
...changes that Alzheimer's patients face. A good new diagnostic test could help patients get help early -- and mak...es, as the population ages. So the need for a good diagnostic test -- and better treatments -- will only get more pressing. Researchers have already tried using ...Evidence supports two types of heart failure
...contracts normally, doctors have doubted their own diagnostic abilities and have been reluctant to put these patients on heart failure treatment," said Kitzman. There is no standard for diagnosing diastolic heart failure. For the research study, the diagnosis was made by ruling out the other medical conditions ...U.Va. team identifies gene that could halt spread of cancer
...ng other organs. U.Va. scientists believe a future diagnostic test for low levels of this protein could be developed. The absence of the protein could serve as a red flag for physicians and help determine which cancers have the propensity to spread. Used in combination with other prognostic tests and biomarkers...Emergency angioplasty OK without surgical back-up
..."The implications are significant. Hospitals with diagnostic laboratories that meet American Heart Association/...97 facilities without cardiac surgical units where diagnostic catheterization or PCI procedures were performed electively. The data were compared with those for ...Heart devices, transplants have similar costs; what will we pay?
...y expenses (15 percent), supplies (14 percent) and diagnostic procedures (11 percent). The time LVAD or organ transplant patients in the middle two quartiles spent in the hospital ranged from 16 to 55 days. These patients represent the type of person most likely to receive an LVAD in the future, say the resear...New system created by Rensselaer group speeds the mapping of blood vessel networks in live tumors
...ly tracing the vessels, now takes two minutes. The diagnostic tool, in use at Harvard Medical School and at Northeastern University, is a boon to oncologists who aim to understand how blood vessels form in tumors. For the first time, medical scientists can quickly and precisely measure blood vessel properties ...Patients benefit when doctor uses computer, not paper, to write prescriptions
... results, delays in scheduling diagnostic tests and delays in discharge planning," Mekhjian said. "Entering an order into a computer can help alleviate many of these delays. It also serves as a check-and-balance system to doctors...More health care doesnt mean better health care for medicare patients
...as largely devoted to greater use of the hospital, diagnostic tests, and referrals to specialists," said Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH, professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and the lead researcher. "This study provides strong evidence that more medical care does not necessarily result in better medica...Aircraft technology helps diagnose artificial hip, knee problems
...tlas" that can be used by orthopedic surgeons as a diagnostic tool. She said the atlas could be used to help identify the potential problems that patients are having with their implants prior to revision surgery. Most artificial hips consist of a polyethylene socket and metal ball or metal-on-metal combinatio...Electronic job aid to benefit healthcare workers and patients
...drug information, medical references and automated diagnostic tools could be a lifesaver -- literally, Welch said. MedEPSS also could relieve some of the workplace pressures nurses face, such as patient overloads stemming from the national shortage of nurses, healthcare worker errors and increased demands for m...St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to manufacture investigative drugs and vaccines
...luenza, immunotherapy proteins and other drugs and diagnostic products. The facility is designed to support the hospital's goal of swiftly taking research from the laboratory to the clinic. The GMP facility's mission is to solve the problem of how to engage major pharmaceutical companies that are reluctant to m...Experts meet to challenge approaches of testing and developing cancer treatments
...esigns and better use of biomarkers and predictive diagnostic techniques in developing oncology agents. Other breakout groups will consider predictive diagnostic techniques, combination oncology therapies, and oncology trial infrastructure issues. The goal of th...Child health costs similar for behavioral compared to physical disorders
... common behavioral disorders were identified using diagnostic codes determined from household interviews. Researchers compared them to two control groups healthy children and children with common physical disorders such as asthma, epilepsy and diabetes. Among the 3,955 eligible children, almost seven percent ...Blood test could detect heart attack early
...chers have been trying for years to develop better diagnostic tests for heart attacks. In conjunction with an EC...initive diagnosis of heart attack, but serves as a diagnostic aid to be used in combination with other diagnostic criteria for determining if a heart attack is in...Renal amyloidosis worsens the Familial Mediterranean Fever prognosis
... soon work towards developing both therapeutic and diagnostic guidelines for AA Amyloidosis.'......is a major concern in medicine. Screening involves diagnostic tests applied to those who are not known to have c... ) DIGITAL 3-D MAMMOGRAMS Digital 3-D images for diagnostic mammograms work better than the traditional film images, reports Mari Lehtimaki ( mari.lehtimaki@fi.......nt issue vol. 67, June 2003) A new paper has added diagnostic capability to an earlier study of heartbeat analys...acked the relevant clinical data needed to give it diagnostic importance. Clinical data has since been made available to the researchers, who have published an ad...