UCLA scientists discover African strain of AIDS in two American infants
... remeasured the childrens viral loads with another diagnostic method designed to detect non-B viral strains. Not...ults overlooked The UCLA finding suggest that the diagnostic methods most commonly used by U.S. hospitals in the past may have inaccurately measured other Americ...Ultrasound senses 'feel' of breast lesions
...the patient over that associated with conventional diagnostic (ultrasound) imaging," the authors wrote. "Although these findings are preliminary, they present several opportunities for ARFI imaging, and indicate that this method holds considerable clinical promise," their article concluded. Soo is now cond...Mayo Clinic researchers find significant renal artery stenosis among hypertensive patients
...al aortography in hypertensive patients undergoing diagnostic coronary angiography to better define cardiovascular risk for the individual patient. Patients with renal artery stenosis deserve close follow up with attention to their blood pressure and kidney function. As of yet we do not recommend routine angiop...Routine overnight EEG monitoring not warranted in autistic children
...y selected cases. We found the incidence of the diagnostic criteria for LKS to be miniscule in overnight stud... epilepticus during slow-wave sleep, regarded as a diagnostic criterion for LKS. Overnight EEG monitoring in autistic children is challenging on multiple accou...Applied Biosystems introduces next generation production level DNA analysis systems
... technology platforms to identify drug targets and diagnostic marker candidates, and to discover novel therapeutic candidates. Its Celera Discovery System online platform is an integrated source of information based on the human genome and other biological and medical sources. Celera Diagnostics, a joint ventur...NIH-funded UCSD rheumatic diseases center to facilitate collaboration, speed discoveries
...(RDCC) designed to speed up the development of new diagnostic tools and therapies for the millions of individual...uring the next five years were able to develop new diagnostic tests and undertake several new clinical trials of innovative therapies, he noted. Rheumatic diseas...UCSF, UC Davis establish joint pediatric heart center
...ief of pediatric cardiology. The specialists offer diagnostic evaluations of congenital heart defects, including prenatal diagnoses to determine when treatment is needed immediately after birth, and therapeutic interventions, using minimally invasive, catheter-based techniques rather than surgery. With pediatri...Lasers light way to 3-D imaging in Purdue lab
...g offers numerous possible applications, including diagnostic imaging for medicine and industry. The method might allow scientists to study how live tumors behave in real time, even how they react to experimental drugs. "This is a proof of concept," Nolte said. "These are the very first images of their kind." F...Memory isn't 'lost,' just out of sync
...ment of the brain's electrical activity to develop diagnostic tools to identify people with memory disorders. Such a facility may benefit not only Alzheimer's patients, he said, but it will also help stroke and head injury patients, as well as those with schizophrenia. "We want to try to figure out, based on...Dartmouth team finds uneven relationship between newborn intensive care and death rates
... admitted to intensive care units and receive more diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. Does this occur? If so, is that good or not? These are important questions for future research." An intriguing phenomenon is that the growth of neonatal intensive care, like most specialty care, usually occurs without a...Continued disruption of movement among alcoholics despite abstinence
...cated alcoholism' to refer to individuals who meet diagnostic criteria for alcohol dependence but are apparently free of medical, cognitive, or motor abnormalities that can accompany alcoholism," said Edith Sullivan, associate professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and the study's lea...Researchers identify new signs of depression and anxiety in patients
...xiety and depression can contribute to an improved diagnostic profile that will help family physicians identify patients most at risk for anxiety and depression and help those patients receive appropriate care. The results were published in the May/June issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Pract...Venlafaxine significantly effective for children and teens with generalized anxiety disorder
...the study. To determine if a child or teen met the diagnostic criteria for GAD required to enroll in the study, investigators evaluated all prospective participants using the C-KIDDIE-SADS GAD and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) criteria. The anxiety symptoms h...NYU Medical Center selects Siemens as strategic partner
...ely, will provide patients with access to the best diagnostic tools available and will provide researchers with ...ing equipment for its rapidly expanding program in diagnostic and interventional radiology. The agreement covers approximately 100 advanced clinical imaging mach...Doppler test detects those with gene for early heart enlargement risk
...ity alone was not sufficiently sensitive as a sole diagnostic criterion, the combination of early diastolic myocardial velocity and ejection fraction was highly predictive of the gene mutation in individuals without overt manifestations of the disease," he says. According to Robert Roberts, M.D., Don W. Chapman...Current colon cancer screening recommendations supported by study of 40-49 year olds
...ir physician about the need for screening or for a diagnostic evaluation, said Dr.Imperiale, who is a gastroenterologist. In spite of the low prevalence of cancer detected by screening in persons under age 50 in this study, about 7 percent of colorectal cancers are known to occur in individuals under age 50. ...Writing nanopatterns with DNA inks
...ave a gene chip with an array of 100,000 different diagnostic tests in an area the size of the tip of a needle. In the future, it may take only a few seconds to make a gene chip, said Mirkin. And by putting in more information per unit area, smaller sample sizes would be required, reducing cost and time. "Our d...Electrodiagnostic studies the better alternative for diagnosing carpal tunnel syndrome
...gnosing carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). While other diagnostic tools have been proposed for CTS, the electrodiagnostic tests are the preferred method among experts from these three associations. The latest practice guideline is published in the June 11 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American A...PET reveals early coronary damage in young smokers
...ng smokers who may appear healthy on other cardiac diagnostic tests according to researchers at the 49th Annual ...ts for more than 400,000 deaths annually. PET is a diagnostic imaging test that measures metabolic activity and generates images of organ or tissue function. The......ervention. Positron emission tomography (PET) is a diagnostic imaging test that measures metabolic activity and generates images of organ or tissue function. FDG is the key radiopharmaceutical used in PET because, when injected, it is "taken up" more rapidly by tumor than by healthy tissue. This allows physicia...