Many Medical Screening Tests May Be Unnecessary.
...uate research. Creating the impression that such exams can reduce a patient's risk to zero---possibly leading them to make uninformed medical decisions. Inaccurate, false positive results which can cause profound anxiety and require additional testing that can be increasingly invasive and costly. D...Jefferson Researcher Finds New Digital X-Ray Technology May Cut Costs And Improve Patient Care
...rrently, an estimated 70 percent of all diagnostic exams are performed using conventional film-based radiography because of its functionality and high image quality. Film-based systems, however, can be indirect because fluorescent materials must first absorb the X-ray energy and convert i...Mammography Messages Need To Be Tailored For Older Women
... back mainly by erroneous beliefsmay decide to get exams if given proper information about theirrisk of breast cancer and benefits of early screening, she notes.Although having a doctor or nurse suggest a mammogram helped,the survey revealed that this advice alone did not spur womento get exams. Surprisi...X-Rays: How Big A Risk To Kids? UF Researchers Seek Answers
...eceive. Though all radiation carriessome risk, the exams can be crucial to medical treatment -- indeed, the...h radiation children absorb fromdifferent types of exams or if it increases their risk of developing canceror leukemia later in life. Hintenlang, wh...Metrifonate, A New Alzheimer Drug, Helps Behavior Problems
... and sideeffects through patient reports, physical exams and blood tests. The drug wasconvenient to take just once a day and did not affect liver function. Only 12percent of those who took it left the study because of nausea, diarrhea or otherside effects. "This metrifonate study shows that this cl...Filmless System Puts X-Ray Images On The Web
...scan also be digitized so that relevant historical exams will be archived. AGFA, a technical imaging company and a division of Bayer in RidgefieldPark, N.J., has installed 130 cable lines across five buildings at the medical center to link the network, called IMPAX. AGFA's WEB 1000 Java server wi...Six Football Players Died In 1997 Season: New Study
... number of girls -- who want to playfootball. Such exams sometimes reveal hidden conditions that make heavy exertionhazardous. Parents should make sure their children are insured againstcatastrophic injury and that medical assistance is available during practice andgames. A Yale University faculty ......llow-up. Plan members withdiabetes receiving foot exams rose 1150 percent, from 2 percent in the baselinet...levels for those members who had atleast two HbA1c exams in follow-up. Over an average period of 107 days,members' HbA1c levels fell from 8.9 percent to 8.5...Study Shows Potential For Quelling AIDS Nerve Pain
... pain was significantly lessened, and neurological exams showedimproved sensation." One offshoot of the study is that the researchers have verifiedprecisely which nerves are involved in the injury -- something not done before. With a punch biopsy, a relatively painless technique little-used in neur...High stress hormone levels impair memory
...may have been right when they told us cramming for exams is not a good idea."These high cortisol levels are relevant to the kind of memory that helps usfunction moment-to-moment," Newcomer said. The remaining questions involve how much stress must be present beforememory suffers. The cortisol level...Gene variant increases heart disease risk, even when cholesterol is normal
...nderwent physical, physiological and psychological exams every two years for 17 years.The study included men and women age 50 or older who had no apparent signs of heart disease. More than half (57 percent) of the participants were men. Gene testing revealed that 200 of the 731 individuals had the apoE-...Staying involved helps breast cancer survivors
... experts recommend mammography and clinical breast exams instead. Some clinicians provide the additional t...scuss the value of mammography and clinical breast exams with patients and involve them in follow-up appointment scheduling." Keeping breast cancer patients ......han half of diabetics who should be getting annual exams do so. It is of added concern that communities wi...els have markedly lower examination rates. Annual exams can reveal changes in a patients eyes that indicate problems necessitating a series of proactive and...Training for doctors improves screening for risk-taking in teens
...alk to teenagers about risks during annual medical exams can increase the number of teens who are screened for several risky behaviors by an average of 16 percent. As a result, in the three HMO clinics participating in the study, three-quarters of teens were screened for some types of risk. "Most teenagers......mains the focus of intense study. Yearly prostate exams are currently recommended, especially for older men, as the risk increases dramatically with age. Researchers are continuing to work on new ways to screen for prostate cancer in the hope that early detection might save lives. Hunt-Wesson, Inc., a foo...How 'negative emotionality' can make you feel sick
...age evident in the laboratory results and physical exams suggests that the health problems were predominantly of psychological origin. However, I would not go so far as to say these health problems were 'all in their head.' Anxiety and depression have been shown to cause demonstrable physical changes." Al...Tourettes, other tic disorders far more common than once thought
...e right place, Kurlan says. Through interviews and exams of the mans relatives, the team ultimately found about 200 members of the extended family of 2,500 people with the disorder. Kurlan thinks that the rate of Tourettes has been underestimated because the patients who seek out treatment in a doctors of...Anxiety over breast self-examination may lead to low compliance, UCLA researchers find
...g advised to receive more frequent clinical breast exams by a health professional. Time and again, we hear from high-risk patients, I dont perform breast self-examinations because I would not know what I am feeling, Wellisch said. This underscores the importance of the role health providers play in working...More Americans facing blindness than ever before
...h risk for eye disease to have regular dilated eye exams are essential in preventing vision loss. Healthy vision is a shared responsibility among the government, health care providers, community leaders, and the public. The director of the National Eye Institute, Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., called for an...Study finds direct link between computer use and vision problems in children
...fore they enter Kindergarten. Comprehensive vision exams given by an eye doctor detect many vision problems regular screenings may miss. While vision screenings are important, it is estimated that they only catch about one-third of all vision problems....