Advances in 'On the Spot' tests have huge public health implications
...rs directly to telephones or computers to transmit diagnostic information, says the author. The benefits of near patient testing include:- improved antibiotic prescribing; rapid diagnosis for communicable diseases such as tuberculosis and acute infections such as meningitis; determination of whether to instigat...UCSF Cancer Center joins elite group of National Cancer Institute-designated centers
...op innovative and improved technologies,therapies, diagnostic and prevention mechanisms, and patient outreach programs,"McCormick says. PATIENT CARE: The number of newly diagnosed cancer patients seen at four of the UCSF andUCSF-affiliated medical centers is approximately 3,200 per year. More important,th...New imaging method detects abnormalities in the brain's tiny blood vessels
...e American Journal of Neuroradiology. He also is a diagnostic radiologistat St. Louis Children's Hospital. The variation of MRI used in the study wasdeveloped by a team of investigators at the medical school's MallinckrodtInstitute of Radiology. The new imaging method is an offshoot of functional MRI, w...Renowned researcher in prenatal diagnostics joins Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
...mmend more invasive tests. By havingscreenings and diagnostic tests available earlier in the pregnancy, women ar...ducting a concurrentNIH-funded study comparing the diagnostic capabilities of two invasive tests -transabdominal chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and early amnioce......nowledge drove our decision to reevaluateavailable diagnostic and treatment possibilities." The version on the Internet allows readers to quickly find changes in theguidelines. Text that has been changed is identified by strikeout (strikeout)and new text by shading (shading). Some of the most significant highli......resonance imaging (MRI) has significantly enhanced diagnostic medicine by allowing physicians to look deep insidethe human body without using a scalpel. Now, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology areapplying the technique to a broad range of industrial processes,using MRI to watch carpet dry fro......s. In LatinAmerica, 46.2 percent of patients had a diagnostic angiogram, 17.6 percent weregiven an angioplasty and almost 10.9 percent had heart bypass surgery. Thoserates, respectively, for patients in North America were 79.4 percent, 33.6percent, and 20.1 percent. The use of cardiac medications differed sli...Analysis suggests women treated for breast cancer do better with axillary node dissection
...ction. "People started to think of it as more of a diagnostic procedure instead ofsomething that might actually help to improve survival," Scott-Conner said. Using National Cancer Data Base information on 547,847 women, Scott-Conner andcollaborators at other universities found that surgeons were more likely to...Conference on arthroplasty will highlight innovations in joint replacement treatment
... of Medicine has used this technology to develop a diagnostic arthroscopysimulator for the knee....Cautious evidence of third generation pill link to increase in thromboembolism
...though small, could not be explained by changes in diagnostic procedures or in the threshold for admission, since no increase was seen among men. In a linked editorial, Dr Paul O'Brien from Parkside Health NHS Trust in London echoes Mellemkjr et al's caution. He says that the increased risk of venous thrombosi...Who should have heart bypass surgery? New guidelines will help doctors, patients decide together
...ade has seen major developments in the form of new diagnostic tools,bypass procedures and methods for preventing or addressing common complications,says Eagle. The result is a marked improvement in post-operative survival, withmore than 80 percent of patients still alive 10 years after their operation. "Enough ...MRI breakthroughs could lead to new tests for heart disease
... important step toward using MRI as ascreening and diagnostic tool for heart disease. "A lot of new doors have been opened with this technology," said GregHundley, M.D., assistant professor of cardiology and radiology and leader of theMedical Center's MRI research team. In the current issue of ...A new ion channel involved in cell proliferation: evidence for its oncogenic potential
...itions.This wouldoffer the possibility to design a diagnostic method to detect a potential cancerby measuring the presence of EAG outside its normal location. The ion channel with this property carries the name of a mutant of the fruit fly(Drosophila melanogaster) in which a defect in the channel protein cause...New tests for blood clots, lung cancer use NIDCR patented technology
A new generation of diagnostic tests, recently approved by the FDA, were createdw...s than 12months, reflecting the importance of this diagnostic technology in serving unmetmedical needs. The company hopes that the new imaging tests will immediat...Misinterpretation of heart rhythm recordings may cause unnecessary treatments
...ed as ventricular tachycardia,patients may undergo diagnostic or therapeutic procedures they otherwise wouldnot ...defibrillator implanted. Three patients received a diagnostic catheterization. One patient received a blood transfusion. One patient received intravenous nitr...Lack of sleep alters hormones, metabolism
...tolerance test in a manner consistent with current diagnostic criteriafor impaired glucose tolerance," note the authors. Impaired glucose toleranceis an early symptom of diabetes. Sleep deprivation also altered the production and action of other hormones,dampening the secretion of thyroid stimulating hormone a...Researchers complete sequence and gene map of human major histocompatibility complex
...hould rapidly lead to straightforward and accurate diagnostic tests based on actual gene sequences. This should make it easier for doctors to influence the progression of some diseases by giving lifestyle advice," said Daniel Geraghty, co-author of the paper. In the longer term, understanding the structure of d...Cranfield technology noses ahead
...ortly will give a full evaluation of 'Diag- Nose', diagnostic companies are currently being sought to bring the technology to the market. Dr Saini believes; "If clinical trails prove successful, Diag-Nose will hold a number of advantages to patient and doctor since the test only requires a small urine sample it......ndicates that 19 percent of welfare recipients met diagnostic criteria for either major depression, general anxiety disorders, agoraphobia or panic attack. The NLSY survey found that 40 percent of long-term recipients were at risk of depression. --Many welfare recipients are expected to exceed mandated time li......on, the coalition will advocate for cervicalcancer diagnostic and treatment services for this population. "With regular pap smear screenings, we have the potential to dramaticallyreduce the incidence of cervical cancer in this population. To develop aneffective plan to make this happen, however, it is essentia...