First biomarkers to diagnose Lou Gehrig's disease found in CNS
...ng all the ALS patients) and specificity (avoiding false positives among the non-ALS patients). These protein peaks represent the first biomarkers for ALS and could be completed within a few hours instead of the months now demanded. The next step, says Dr. Bowser, is to confirm these results in a lar...Not guilty! Evidence exonerates 328, but many still falsely imprisoned
... an iceberg. It is clear that there are many more false convictions that are never discovered." The resear...eople. The study focuses on three common causes of false convictions: misidentifications, false confessions and perjury. According to Gross, the police shoul...Diagnostic method based on nanoscience could rival PCR
...iating single-base mismatches and thereby reducing false positives. In their experiments, the scientists used the anthrax lethal factor, which is important for bioterrorism and has been well studied in the literature, as their target DNA. The BCA approach builds on earlier work reported last September in ...Controlling pain with your brain
...ect through a series of controls. They gave people false feedback data, no feedback at all, or feedback from a part of the brain unrelated to pain control. They also sometimes asked people to pay attention to the pain or distracted their attention away from it. The technique might prove useful not only fo...Electronic nose device proves effective for diagnosing pneumonia and sinusitis
...use through over-prescription of antibiotics for false cases of pneumonia." The first two studies looked at pneumonia cases among patients who are on ventilators in the surgical intensive care unit (SICU). Here, diagnosis is made difficult by the patients' limited ability to move, and they are vulnera...CAD acts as 'intelligent colleague' in detecting polyps in the colon
...owever, our study found that 77% of the computer's false positives were easily (and appropriately) dismissed by the human readers," he said. "It is very difficult and time consuming to read and interpret CT colonography examinations," said Dr. Yoshida. The time and the difficulty of the doing and interpret...Living wills don't work, study says
...the researchers conclude that living wills offer a false promise of control over end-of-life treatment. The best patients can do, the researchers argue, is to use a "durable power of attorney" to appoint someone to make decisions for them when they can no longer make their own decisions. "Our review sh...... test with better operating characteristics (fewer false negatives and false positives) may actually be a better investment." Mark Hall, of Wake Forest University Medical Schoo...Americans pay for unethical medical expert witnesses
...rial costs and over-the-top awards, perpetuated by false or misleading testimony, force liability insurance premiums to rise," said Phillip Haeck, MD, former chair of the ASPS Judicial Committee and panel moderator. "In the end, physicians are moving their practices to other states, changing their practice...Northwestern researchers pinpoint how false memories are formed
...he brain to offer new evidence on the existence of false memories and how they are formed. Published in...sted in what happens differently in the brain when false memories are produced. "We learned that the particular parts of the brain critical for gene...'Fatally flawed' legal analysis will not stand
...stion about that." "Their analysis is built on the false premise that NIH is making a change to copyright law. The fact is, in all cases, NIH grantees must give NIH a royalty-free, nonexclusive, and irrevocable license for the Federal government to 'reproduce, publish, or otherwise use' the material and t...Computer program helps doctors diagnose lung cancer
...aw with the computer-aided system is it may return false positive results, identifying masses as cancerous ...s fine-tune the technology, they hope to see fewer false positives, and may actually help radiologists identify benign lesions and reduce the number of peopl...SIDS risk linked to lack of experience with tummy-sleeping
...d, he or she is okay to sleep prone, but that is a false assurance," Thach says. "Parents and other caregivers should never place an infant in the prone position until he or she shows the ability to spontaneously turn all the way over. Back-sleeping should continue to be strongly encouraged to protect agai...Other highlights in the December 15 JNCI
...who had breast cancer) and lower specificity (more false positive results in women who did not have breast cancer) whereas more experience was associated with lower sensitivity and higher specificity. The authors conclude that increasing volume requirements for radiologists is unlikely to improve the inter...Thanks for the memories: cinematic portrayal of amnesia is profoundly misleading
...foundly misleading, and gives the general public a false view of what to expect if they are diagnosed with the condition, says a paper in this week's BMJ. Analyzing a host of movies from the silent era up to the present day, the paper traces a number of regular misconceptions about the condition. Most amne...Few Americans are aware they have chronic kidney disease
...reatinine levels, a "normal" reading can provide a false sense of security. Instead, creatinine should be considered along with a patient's age, gender, and race to estimate GFR. "Kidney disease can be well advanced before it's found with creatinine alone. GFR is a more accurate gauge of how well the kidn...Repeated unexpected infant deaths most likely to be from natural causes
...e least of which is the protection of parents from false accusations, it is essential that all sudden unexpected infant deaths are submitted to a detailed, expert investigation like this study, which includes a full family history, clinical history, and paediatric autopsy." In an accompanying commentary (...Two self-fulfilling prophecies are stronger, and more harmful, than one
...negative prophecies, but also the power of others' false beliefs in promoting negative outcomes. When two or more people have similar false beliefs about another person, it's possible this could influence the person's behavior. Researchers ...New system may help babies avoid brain damage
... rate monitoring alone also can provide a horribly false sense of security. "A baby that is stressed early on would raise his heart rate," Dr. Devoe says. "But as the stress period becomes more intense, the baby's ability to sustain that heart rate goes down. It's like a runner. Initially, your heart rate......e is a long way to go, and we do not wish to raise false hopes in patients who are living with spinal cord injury. However, our work to date clearly indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, the spinal cord does have the potential to repair itself. That is why we believe that human trials are the logica...