25-minute test distinguishes between different types of schizophrenia
...rs of schizophrenia will become like looking for a needle in a single haystack rather than searching for that needle in the entire field'....Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2000
...tively simple with the medic or corpsman placing a needle into the affected region in the chest to release the pressure. The problem with tension pneumothorax is detection. Its difficult to detect even in a hospital, but a battlefield setting makes the job even more difficult. The goal of the ORNL project i......s waste products from the blood accessed through a needle inserted into a blood vessel in the arm or leg. The blood is then pumped through an artificial kidney machine containing a filtering system called a dialyzer that cleanses the blood and returns the cleansed blood back to the body. Most people underg...Researchers closer to delivering new insulin pill for diabetics
...ake insulin, either by injecting themselves with a needle at least twice a day or by using a battery-operate...upply of insulin through a tube that connects to a needle placed under the skin. Because insulin-dependent diabetes usually afflicts young people, it used to ...Tissue engineering could become new coronary bypass
...place. Just injecting a large amount of it with a needle doesn't work." Coronary artery disease occurs when blocked vessels fail to deliver enough blood and oxygen to the heart muscle itself. The coronary bypass operation, which is performed nearly 3 million times per year in the United States, involves ...Acupuncture calms nerves, improves heart function
... no-needle simulation of the treatment, in which a needle holder is tapped to the back of their neck, but no needle was inserted. The average age of the patients in the study was 43, and they included both men and w...Condoms and education dramatically reduce HIV spread in Thailand
...re is resistance to funding methadone treatment or needle exchange programs in many communities. Here in the United States, injection drug use is directly or indirectly responsible for nearly 50 percent of all new HIV infections each year. This research shows that increased public health programs are needed...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, March 5, 2002
... produce complications associated with any type of needle use. The number of acupuncturists in the United States, estimated at about 11,000 practitioners without traditional medical degrees and 3,000 acupuncturists with medical degrees, is expected to double by 2005 and quadruple by 2015....Newly published data show at-home dialysis therapy may benefit more patients
...s waste products from the blood accessed through a needle inserted into a blood vessel. The blood is then pumped through an artificial kidney machine containing a filtering system called a dialyzer that cleanses the blood and returns the cleansed blood back to the body. Most people undergoing HD receive t...First report of stem cell signal of intention to become specific neuron
...ble to find progenitor cells in adult brains using needle biopsy of living patients (a procedure already being done in humans for different reasons). Cells about to become the needed neurons would be selected, cloned, and placed back in the patient's brain, like an autograft. We know these cells have the ...Other highlights in the June 5 issue of JNCI
...in breast epithelial cells obtained by random fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy from 30 asymptomatic women whose risk of breast cancer had been estimated by the Gail model. LOH was detected in two of 11 women with normal cytology and in 14 of 19 women with abnormal cytology. The mean lifetime risk for dev...Progress and future directions for management of hepatitis C
...iors and occupational exposures such as accidental needle sticks, and mother-to-infant transmission. Clinical trials are providing persuasive evidence that treating HCV with a combination of pegylated interferon and ribavirin produces a considerably better sustained viral response (SVR) than monotherapy ...Electroacupuncture trial is NCCAM's first intramural study
.... Both patient groups will also have an additional needle placed at a sham point common to both groups to serve as an added control. In addition to determining the effectiveness of electroacupuncture as an approach to treating delayed nausea, the researchers also hope to verify that the specific acupuncture...Needle-exchange program found to reduce emergency room visits among intravenous drug users
...he New Haven, Connecticut area found that a mobile needle exchange program reduced emergency department use among out-of-treatment injection drug users (IDUs). Dr. Harold A. Pollack, University of Michigan, Dr. Frederick L. Altice, Yale University School of Medicine, and colleagues from Yale University st...CWRU/University Hospitals of Cleveland researchers investigate new cancer treatment
...blation, a minimally invasive procedure in which a needle electrode is inserted through the skin and guided into a tumor by an imaging method such as computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). An electric current is then introduced through the electrode to elevate the tissue temperature t...First pregnancies reported using a new, needle-free device for administering hormones to IVF women
...new device which can administer hormones without a needle injection. Dr Stuart Lavery, a Subspeciality Fellow in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery at the Hammersmith Hospital in London, UK, told the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference in Vienna today (Wednesday 3 July) that a te...New scanner holds promise of better breast cancer detection
...l the lesions were ultimately either surgically or needle biopsied, so that findings were pathologically confirmed. Of the lesions, 30 (52%) were benign, and 28 (48%) were malignant. The study authors suggested that since the second, high-resolution scan was undertaken outside the limits of the tracer's a...Doubling of deaths from alcoholic liver disease - drug abuse during 1970s and 1980s may explain why
...Significantly, this was before the introduction of needle exchange and other interventions instigated in the late 1980s to reduce the risk of HIV transmission in drug users."...New delivery system may change the age-old method of insulin delivery
...e skin, to help minimize tremor or movement at the needle tip, and to help prevent the person from injecting too deeply. "I believe InnoLet ® may help my patients be more compliant with their treatment because it is easy and convenient to use," said Dr. Schwartz. In a clinical study, 95 percent of pa...