New technique lets doctors examine milk ducts for breast problems
...n to view the duct lining directly on a television monitor to locate and inspect the unhealthy tissue. It also serves as a guide to remove the abnormal duct. The technique spares as much normal breast tissue as possible and leaves patients with less pain and numbness. Dietz, along with colleagues at The Clev...European seal plague may threaten population survival
...e, seasonal behavior, and other factors to help us monitor this situation."...Drug combination opens clogged arteries faster, keeps them open longer
...ctrical activity of the hearth with each beat. The monitor turns this electrical activity into a graphic repr...us measurements over 24 hours using a portable ECG monitor with 12 leads, which provided much more detailed information about the heart. This approach was deve...Terrorist attacks increased dangerous irregular heartbeats
... a pocket watch that is inserted into the heart to monitor heart rhythm. It detects life-threatening abnormal rhythms, called arrhythmias, and delivers an electrical shock to restore normal rhythm. Beginning a few days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, the rate of ICD discharges incre...NIH funds new brain imaging center at San Francisco VA Medical Center
...lderly in general. The system will also be used to monitor the effectiveness of treatment of the disease. In addition to patient treatment, the center will conduct research expected to advance the field significantly by testing the newest drug treatments developed specifically for Alzheimer's and other neuro...Satellite images predict hantaviral transmission risk
...ecause, at a practical level, it provides a way to monitor the environment for the risk of an infectious dise...cal dynamics of local environmental conditions and monitor SNV transmission in deer mouse populations and then compare theses sites with lower-risk locations. ...Videotaping message helps black teens eat more fruits, veggies
...ntake over a three-day period and wore an activity monitor for four days. Specifically, the study authors compared three different treatment strategies: an education-only program, a behavioral skills approach that teaches individuals how to attain certain health goals and a third method that combined behavio...Device acts as heart's security system
...atients is testing a first-of-its-kind implantable monitor that transmits critical data from their heart over... three weeks for follow-up care, patients with the monitor need an office appointment less than once a month, said Abraham. But patient convenience is not the...Parkinson's drug linked to heart disease risk factor
...ted with levodopa should ask their neurologists to monitor the level of homocysteine in their blood, particularly if they are at risk for heart disease, Diaz-Arrastia said. The conclusions should not prevent people from using levodopa, he said. "This medicine is necessary for parkinsonism," Diaz-Arrastia sai...Improved molecular beacons show promise for cancer detection, rapid viral diagnosis
...he cancerous cells. Beacons could then be used to monitor the success of cancer therapy. And because they specifically attach to mRNA, beacons could perhaps also be used to slow down or halt the growth of cancer cells. ...New advance in fuel cell technology may help power medical implants
...rm power for medical devices such as implants that monitor glucose levels in diabetics. "They present a new p...is design could help rid a diabetic of the need to monitor blood glucose after each meal, and that would make for a significant advance in the treatment of dia...Children's hospital safeguards patient safety
... by which staff member. Reports enable managers to monitor medication administrations and help identify opportunities for process improvement. "With MedPoint, we can facilitate communication between nursing, pharmacy and the lab. Our nurses will know immediately when a medication order has been changed or ca...Drug reduces deaths and hospital stays in heart attack patients with heart failure
...t says, means that physicians will need to closely monitor potassium levels in patients who take eplerenone once it comes on the market -- just as they should be doing with patients taking spironolactone -- and adjust doses or diuretic usage accordingly. Some patients with kidney problems or low creatinine c...... facilities are good, it is extremely difficult to monitor an infection with such common symptoms and for whi...ell-defined test and a worldwide network set up to monitor it- and still there are nasty holes in that network," says Alan Hampson of the WHO Collaborating Cen...Glucowatch Biographer reported to improve diabetes control in children
...etes management, the group using the Biographer to monitor glucose levels in addition to conventional therapy had significantly lower average HbA1c levels than the control group (P Additional study findings demonstrated that insulin dose changes were more frequent in the control group. Richard C. Eastman, ...Capturing airborne pathogens, breath tests for lung cancer
...gases can potentially even detect lung cancer, and monitor the health of patients with lung cancer. Detection of these carbon-based gases is also important in industry, such as in the control of smelters where the carbon monoxide/carbon dioxide ratio indicates furnace efficiency. The new detector is based o...Endografts help prevent deaths from abdominal aortic aneurysms
...te monitoring devices implanted in the aneurysm to monitor pressure in the aneurysm sac, and stronger and thinner fabrics will result in a similar evolution of the stent graft."...Scholar: Amount of food eaten more critical than fat content
... often occurring because most adults simply do not monitor their consumption and are unaware of the forces that influence them," Wansink wrote in his forthcoming article. As opposed to traditional dietary recommendations, Wansink suggests that people spend less time obsessing over the specific fat content o...UCLA report shows disparities in children's health
...urage participation by underrepresented groups. To monitor the status of California's children, CHIS will continue to measure key indicators every two years. CHIS will also have the opportunity to interview the same participants over time to obtain more in-depth information about particular topics, such as a...Message to pediatricians: advise parents to limit movie access to reduce chances of teen smoking
... are now advising pediatricians to urge parents to monitor their teens' access to movies and abide by the ratings guidelines sponsored by the Motion Picture Association of America and the National Association of Theatre Owners. The researchers are from Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth College and the Norr...