New test is first step in early detection of Alzheimer's disease
...y, led a research team that, using BCA technology, measured the concentration of ADDLs present in the cerebrospinal fluid of 30 individuals. ADDL concentrations for the individuals who had been evaluated and determined to have Alzheimer's disease were consistently higher than the levels from the control group...Screening for osteoporosis prevents hip fractures in older adults
...California and Pennsylvania had their bone density measured locally and the results were sent to their primary care doctors. Subsequent treatment decisions were left to the participants and their doctors. The researchers followed study participants for up to six years and collected information about hip fra...Increased physical activity not linked to ALS risk
...ents and 254 controls. All study participants were measured on early, late, and total physical activity: until the age of 25; until one year before the onset of the disease; and the last 10 years before the onset of the disease. "The results showed that there was no significant association between risk of dev...Get ready for next generation surround sound
...ustomers can have the shape of their head and ears measured easily. The shape information will be used to quickly compute an individual's spatial filters." Spatial filters encapsulate how an individual's features alter sounds before they reach the eardrum. The changes vary with direction and so supply the bra......tic field when they formed. This affects the field measured locally. By its subtle east-west comparisons Swarm will picture the magnetic field of the crust with unprecedented clarity. And even ocean water generates electric currents as it move in the main field, so that the ebb and flow of the tides have a sl...Sildenafil effectively treats enlarged hearts, mouse study shows
...ult, the researchers found that heart function, as measured by pressure-volume analysis of the muscle's ability to contract and pump blood, actually improved after hypertrophy had been stopped and treated. While researchers previously thought that hypertrophy was an adaptive response to pressure stress, the ...Counseling encourages exercise; environment changes may help
...ults to become more physically active. The studies measured the effects of interventions such as individual and group counseling, telephone calls, written motivational materials and supervised and unsupervised exercise. Hillsdon and colleagues say continuing professional support combined with self-directed e...Severity of liver disease not a reliable indicator of quality of life
...lity of life scores and the severity of disease as measured by MELD. "Patients consider quality of life in addition to survival when making healthcare decisions," note the authors. "In liver disease in particular, it is essential to understand the impact of their disease on their quality of life because of th...Two minutes of magnetic stimulation can change your brain for an hour
...use effects on the motor cortex can be objectively measured by recording the amount of electrical muscle respo... motor cortex area that controls hand movement and measured the amount of muscle response in a small muscle in the subjects' hands. They discovered that the exc...Discovery of pathway in learning impairment caused by liver disease may lead to drug treatment
...gan. Levels of both cGMP and ammonia in brain were measured using a microdialysis probe. Results showed that while rats with the portacaval shunt showed a reduced learning ability, treatment of shunted rats with sildenafil restored their ability to learn. Tests showed that the concentration of cGMP was reduce...Program effective at reducing depression in teens
...d psychosocial treatment. Depressive symptoms were measured using the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D). Secondary outcomes were mental healthrelated quality of life assessed by Mental Health Summary Score (MCS-12) and satisfaction with mental health care assessed using a 5-point sca...Authors warn of inaccuracies concerning use of race in health & social science research
...environmental factors that traditionally have been measured only grossly and indirectly by race. Doing so, the authors submit, may achieve a breakthrough in producing the kind of data needed to begin to solve the health disparities problem in the United States. The interdisciplinary Georgetown University Eth...Researchers develop way to track quality of home health care
...r view of where you need to improve." The 22 areas measured all come from the Minimum Data Set---Home Care, an interRAI assessment that has been adopted in 10 U.S. states and several other countries. A big advantage is that the measures are available with no further data collection. The newly developed set o...Weight loss may be an early sign of dementia in the elderly
...ions over a period of up to 34 years. Weight was measured at each examination and dementia was ascertained at the three most recent examinations. "Incident dementia was associated with significant previous weight loss, which was independent of a large number of potential confounding factors," the researc...Health report-card fears make doctors forgo potential life-saving heart treatment
...t a physician's mortality rate, the only statistic measured on the state's report card, is by itself an inaccurate indicator of the physician's skill level or quality of care. Of the 120 physicians who responded to the survey, the vast majority agreed or strongly agreed that the publication of mortality stati...Penn study may lead the way for first medication to treat cocaine addiction
...e primary efficacy measure was cocaine abstinence, measured by urine toxicity testing. Secondary measures were craving, cocaine withdrawal, retention, and adverse events. Modafinil-treated patients provided significantly more cocaine-negative urine samples over the eight-week period than those given placebo...A biomarker to predict osteoarthritis
... before joint destruction can be clearly seen and measured on an X-ray image-will improve outcomes. The need for better ways to assess OA's activity from its onset has led researchers to investigate possible biomarkers, particularly those related to cartilage and bone turnover. A biomarker is substance fo...New system may help babies avoid brain damage
...'t getting enough oxygen to his heart is now being measured during labor to see if it can better identify babi...combines this ST segment monitoring which also is measured in an electrocardiogram, or ECG, with the standard fetal heart rate monitoring performed on 80 to 9...Exploring the brain's internal stopwatch
... conducted a series of experiments. The scientists measured the animals' vertical-motion eye responses when they systematically varied (1) the time interval of the horizontal motion before vertical movement, (2) the position of the target when it went vertical, and (3) the speed of horizontal target movement.......stance found in the urine of pregnant women can be measured to predict the later development of preeclampsia, according to research from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health. "We may have reached a turning point in the extensive federal research inv...