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...rcise, theyll be connected to mechanisms that will measure force, torque and muscle activity. The test groups will perform intense exercises for short periods of time and light exercises for prolonged periods. Wojcik, who left Virginia Tech in December 2000 to take a research position with industry, will a...Dual sensor could provide more information, earlier warning for diabetics
...in the human body. The first device of its kind to measure the glucose-insulin ratio, it could help predict c...nsulin pumps have been used for nearly a decade to measure and remedy imbalances in blood sugar levels. The sensor detects excess glucose while the pump acts a......dditionally, median CD4+ T-cell count, which are a measure of improvements in a patients immune function, increased similarly in both regimens. These results show that VIDEX EC capsules given once-daily as part of a triple regimen demonstrates similar anti-viral activity compared to that of a reference regim...Researchers seek women with premature ovarian failure for testosterone replacement study
... women in the study will receive periodic scans to measure bone density as well as tests of cognition, mood, well being, sexual function, dry eye, and body composition....Parents benefit by accompanying children on ambulance trips between hospitals
... "In fact, I recommend parental accompaniment as a measure to improve overall quality of care," said George A. Woodward, M.D., M.B.A., medical director of Emergency Transport at The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia and senior author of both studies, which appeared in the December 2000 and February 2001 iss...Teenagers, drinking and driving: a quick trip to the grave
...a short period of time, and it's very difficult to measure its effects. One of the really good things about Shope's study is that she finds effects in long-term traffic offense data." Shope's research is a follow-up to the Alcohol Misuse Prevention Study, in which five hour's worth of alcohol-education se...New definition may make number of heart attack cases soar
...n muscle contraction and many physicians routinely measure CKMB and troponin to evaluate ischemic heart disease. "When a myocardial infarction occurs, heart muscle dies and in the process, the muscle leaks intracellular components such as CKMB and troponin into the surrounding tissues," says Mark Meier, M....Bad habits, non-cholesterol risk factors in youth linked to fatty plaques
...matic death, as well as to our use of an objective measure of smoking, which has shown to be more accurate than self-reported smoking behavior," McGill says....UNC study ties depression, anxiety to fatigue in HIV-positive patients
... complete five detailed questionnaires designed to measure how much depression, anxiety and fatigue they felt. "We found that in many of our patients, more fatigue corresponded with people having fewer CD4 cells, lower hemoglobin and lower hematocrit," said Dr. Julie Barroso, assistant professor at the UNC...High-tech scan for blocked arteries matches conventional tests in finding root of symptoms
... 75 percent of the time in people who have them (a measure called sensitivity), while still giving 75 percent... of those without plaques an accurate diagnosis (a measure called specificity). If the test is adjusted to be more sensitive to the presence of calcium, its s...Cincinnati chemist wins national award for medical contributions
...actical heart-lung machine, the Clark electrode to measure oxygen levels quickly in blood, surgical techniques to reattach the eye's retina, agents to image tumors and heart-attack damage, topical medicines to speed healing of burns and other advances. His liquid-ventilation techniques can help premature i...Undergraduate conducts high-tech tests on dental enamel
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...rate and reliable when used to measure IgE in patients with allergies or allergy-like symptoms." The point of the study was to judge how the results of these different tests compare with one another in everyday use, she ......t reduction (≥ 50%) in the Headache Index (a measure of overall headache activity) for more patients than did either therapy alone. Patients who took placebos throughout the trial did not report any reduction in headache activity. The study provides the first evidence that chronic tension-type headach...... make these choices," he said. The study did not measure the effect of skipping medications on survival or other outcomes, but Steinman pointed out that there are risks with either decision. "Even if choosing the medications might help them to do better in terms of their survival, they may be suffering in ...New method lets researchers study heart cell communication
...rs. "You inject a current into the muscle and you measure the voltage between two electrodes along the path of that current flow. Gap junctions affect that voltage." But electrodes are not useful for studying how gap junctions work at the cellular level, Cascio said. "So this would provide a way to loo...Early trial at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital shows Angiostatin is safe
...nterested in developing new biochemical markers to measure the effectiveness of Angiostatin in future trials.......elp physicians and researchers develop new ways to measure medication adherence as well as to develop interve...ore proved more accurate than using each adherence measure by itself. The study revealed that after taking antiretroviral drugs for six months, patients with u......er people and those with higher body mass index (a measure of obesity), higher levels of triglycerides, or diabetes. Even after controlling for these four variables, men had 2.5 times the risk of NAFLD compared with women, and African Americans had twice the risk of whites. Pegylated interferon alfa-2a (PEG...