Common hearing test for newborns may be wrong up to a third of the time
...going home. In fact, it has already led the U-M to pick the more accurate test for its new universal screening program. The data may also help audiologists fine-tune their use of the quicker test to give the fewest false positive results. The U-M study directly compared the results of distortion product o...Computerized prescription system reduces errors caused by bad handwriting
...ician orders required several hours for a clerk to pick up and transcribe the physician's orders and route them to radiology or the pharmacy, for instance. Now, with a push of a button, orders are sent immediately to the pharmacy and other departments. Brill said that in tests done on Rush's POE system,...Greater awareness of carbon monoxide poisoning needed among patients and doctors
...d (carboxyhaemoglobin) is straightforward and will pick up exposure in its early stages, say Walker and Hay and breath meters (originally developed as smoking cessation aids) are now available- but "most of the time, no one thinks to do the test." The authors conclude that "with a simple, non-invasive tes...... http://plasma2.ssl.berkeley.edu/marsmic/ ), will pick up unique environmentalsounds from the planet and capture noises made by the lander itself. VictorSparrow of Penn State University ( sparrow@helmholtz.acs.psu.edu ) will presentwhat little is known about the acoustical environment of Mars. Althou...Gene responsible for cerebral venous abnormalities found
...nic groups. "With DNA testing, we can now pick up the mutation in kids who are notshowing symptoms and follow them closely," said Douglas A. Marchuk, leadgeneticist of the Duke group. AThis is the significance of the discovery. Wecan now help alleviate a great deal of the fear surrounding this c...Revived drug prevents malaria, skirts drug resistance
... for theparasite as well as an interview geared to pick up symptoms. The blood tests included new methods sensitive to human red blood cellscarrying parasites as well as conventional microscopic searches for theparasites in blood. As a more precise check, the researchers also used PCR(polymerase ...New imaging method detects abnormalities in the brain's tiny blood vessels
...so sensitive to the low oxygen content that it can pick up a signalthat is smaller than the resolution of its images," Lee says. The structuresalso have low blood flow, a feature that is hard for other techniques to pickup. The researchers used HRBV in the study to view capillary masses calledtela...University of Iowa reading test effective at identifying reading problems due to brain injury
...o be more sensitive than otherassessments, able to pick up on even subtle reading problems. In a recentlypublished study, 89 percent of 64 patients with lingering complaints of readingdifficulties performed below expectations on the Iowa-Chapman test, even thoughthe patients did well on other standard tes...Weizmann Institute scientists develop a potential future treatment for myasthenia gravis
...emmistakenly attacks the receptors in muscles that pick up acetylcholine, achemical messenger that transmits signals from nerves to muscles. As theseacetylcholine receptors are blocked by antibodies and progressively destroyed, the nerve-muscle communication is disrupted and thepatient develops weakness i...Pediatrician will work to cut sexually transmitted diseases
...ne what influences their decisions to betested, to pick up their test results later and to be treated by physicians ifnecessary. She also will train resident pediatricians and internists how toprovide high-quality health care to adolescents in clinical settings. Ford, a graduate of Florida Stat......e its complex anatomy. And what if you could even pick from alist of brain structures -- ranging from the abducens nerve to white matter --and instruct your portable brain to highlight the structure in vivid coloramidst its otherwise undifferentiated beige tissue? Duke medical students enjoyed just such...Noninvasive test aims to prevent sudden cardiac death
... to a few extra leads. These additional leads help pick up subtle beat-by-beat abnormalities that are detected through computer analysis, much like a microscope picks up details that can't be seen by the naked eye. By examining the relationship between the presence of these tiny signals and a patient's h...Is handwriting truly individual? UB computer scientists are finding out
... to do is to create an automated system that could pick outhandwriting styles and attach to them some numbers and confidence levels for aspecific document, to evaluate how good a match there is between a sample and agiven document," said Srihari. Srihari and his colleagues at CEDAR are analyzing h...Cholesterol Carriers Better Predictors Than Cholesterol For Second Heart Attack
...ze of thefatty deposit. Ordinarily, apo A-1 would pick up these cholesterol depositsbefore they enter the plaque. However, if apo A-1 levels are low, the processdoes not go as expected. Instead, the cholesterol accumulates and forms plaque,a fatty deposit that can block blood vessels. As the plaque ac...Insurance Restrictions On Acne Drug Are Outmoded And Costly
...t pays for eachauthorization. "Even if you pick the ideal age for prior authorization, our study showsthat the insurance companies are saving only a small amount," Feldman said. "Sothe insurers are not gaining much of anything, and the patients and thephysicians are going through a lot of inconven...Migraine Pain: Not Mainly In The Brain
...to molecules such asalbumen. The SPECT scans then pick up the albumen leakage into surroundingtissues. The images showed bright, diffuse patches -- a sign of inflammation --at areas in the meninges that precisely matched places where patients said they felt theirheadaches, thus linking abnormali...Baby Talk: Parents Do Make A Difference, By Promoting Childhood Chatter, From Birth To Age 3
...'re so primed to language, children in manyregions pick up two or three different languages with no diffic...uage politely, she adds, "Watch yourlanguage. They pick up any words quickly, so make sure the words they hear arethe ones you want them to learn!" By age 3...CT Scans Could Become Screening Tool For Heart Disease
...s caused by narrowed arteries. "If doctors could pick up high-risk people early, before symptoms develop, they could head off a heart attack at the pass," says Carr. Another CT technology, the electron beam, has been available for more than 10 years to detect calcium in the heart's arteries. But the ...Early Intervention Key To Repairing Hole In Heart Disease
...amination."In a previous era, we were only able to pick up these defects at a moreadvanced stage of the disease," says senior author Dr. Louise Harris, assistantprofessor in U of T's department of medicine and a staff cardiologist at TTH."Now we're able to detect them earlier and restore normal blood circ......need to get smokers to quit and non-smokers not to pick up the addictivehabit." Dr. Brundtland asked the assembled leaders to act against tobacco. "Thoseactions, both personal and official, will decide if tobacco shall claim newmillions of victims in your home countries. Those actions will help prevent t...