Digital Speech Analysis Tests Sobriety
...as shown that a personlistening to the samples can reliably discriminate between sober andintoxicated speech. Acoustic analysis also has shown that intoxicatedspeech is slower, features longer sentences and is marked bymispronunciations, such as slurred sounds and transposed letters andwords. In the current...KUMC Researchers Announce Breakthrough Method For Predicting Epileptic Seizures
...s with epilepsy, the implications of being able to reliably predict the onset of a seizure holds the promise for new, effective ways of combating epilepsy. "This may revolutionize the way we treat seizures," Osorio predicted. Currently, seizures are controlled by a number of anti-convulsant drugs. App...Rats Receiving Ginkgo Biloba Learn Quicker, Live 20 Percent Longer Than Controls, UB Study Finds
...ormed in an apparatus called the radial maze could reliably detect deficiencies in learning and memory related to age. In the current study, Winter used 20-month-old rats, which were assigned a diet that included either ginkgo biloba extract or no extract. Over several weeks, the animals performed tasks in ...Research Offers New Tool In Fight Against Prostate Cancer
... Cancer Centerstrongly suggests that PSA tests can reliably gauge the effectiveness ofchemotherapy for advanced prostate cancer. A reliable method of assessing a cancer patient's response to treatment isimportant. It shows doctors whether the prescribed therapy is working andallows them to quickly and confid...Conscientious heart patients less likely to die
...ne. Among theplacebo patients, however, those who reliably took their pills were more likelyto eat a heart-healthy diet and participated in a greater number of socialevents in the previous month. "We speculate that people who are actively engaged in pleasurable lifeactivities may have a stronger desire for g...Annals Of Internal Medicine - tip sheet for November 2, 1999
...od drawn from a long-term, indwelling catheter can reliably be used to ruleout blood-stream infections, but positive results from blood samples drawn thisway may require confirmation, a new study found (Article, p. 641)....Common hearing test for newborns may be wrong up to a third of the time
... 1999 study that ABR tests could spot hearing loss reliably and cost-effectively in infants whose family history, birth conditions or medical problems put them at risk for hearing deficits. In the new trial, they looked at babies with no special risks. All the babies were tested while lying quietly in their m...High-tech scan for blocked arteries matches conventional tests in finding root of symptoms
...the new test can diagnose blocked arteries just as reliably as stress tests in patients with symptoms of coronary artery disease. The paper, which compared data from nine studies of EBCT using a process called meta-analysis, is published in the March 26 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. EBCT, which...Rutgers researchers developing technology to help New Jersey farmers "grow" pharmaceuticals
...tists have developed a way to use living plants to reliably and inexpensively manufacture biologically active compounds ranging from human insulin to cancer-fighting supplements. A research group led by Rutgers Professor of Biology Ilya Raskin plans to partner with New Jersey farmers through Phytomedi...Stroke news tips for Friday, Feb. 8, 2002
...liable. Neurologists with expertise in stroke can reliably and accurately read acute stroke computer tomography (CT) scans of the head via teleradiology to determine if a patient is a candidate for thrombolytic therapy, researchers found in the TeleRadiology Assessment of CTs Online Reliability Study (TRACTO...Many obese youth have condition that precedes type 2 diabetes
... type 1 diabetes, but it is not a cure, nor can it reliably prevent the long-term complications of the disease....Medieval black death not bubonic plague
...ct is that we can only trace modern bubonic plague reliably back to the late 18th century or early 19th century, according to Wood. Who knows when it first emerged? We too often make the assumption that while a lot of things change in the interaction of infectious diseases and human hosts, the microbe itself...Physics tip sheet #11 - May 1, 2002
...study in bullfrog hearts showed that alternans was reliably suppressed and prevented from re-occurring. Electrical activity in the heart was monitored and a feedback cycle applied small electrical impulses to the heart. The authors suggest that a modification of this procedure may be able to maintain normal ...Those involved in medical news invited to join an unprecedented gathering of experts
...gned to help everyone involved in the process more reliably communicate news of medical and scientific discovery and health information." Pat Mitchell, President/CEO, Public Broadcasting Services and Bill Lanier, M.D., Editor, Mayo Clinic Proceedings also will serve as program chairs for the conference. Pane...Urine test predicts Alzheimer's disease
...dicine. They have determined that a urine test can reliably detect free radical damage associated with people with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) a recognized precursor to AD. The test detects isoprostanes, fatty acids that are formed as the result of free radical damage in the brain damage that correlates...Gene expression profiles predict survival of lymphoma patients after chemotherpy
...t patients' response to treatment. "We're able to reliably predict the survival of these patients using data from a small number of genes, indicating that this technique should be entirely manageable for routine use," said National Cancer Institute (NCI) investigator Louis M. Staudt, M.D, Ph.D., the senior a...Straightforward assessment to improve identification of people at high risk from colorectal cancer
...method which could predict colorectal cancers more reliably than current UK NHS guidelines. Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of death from cancer in the UK, with 30,000 new cases and 19,000 deaths every year. Current NHS guidelines for the referral of patients with colorectal symptoms often o...Asthma severity is variable and unpredictable
...atients are followed over time." No one parameter reliably predicted overall severity for individual patients at any given point in time. Failure to take this into consideration could possibly result in either an underestimation or overestimation of asthma severity. Asthma is a chronic lung disease. Both in...Pre-term infants slower than full-terms at processing information
...time than full-terms to study the paired faces and reliably recognize the new faces. The differences were similar at all three ages with no evidence found that the performance gap narrowed with age or that the pre-terms caught up. The results of the study are consistent with previous research by Rose and coll...Research reveals no benefit of rapid MRI over X-rays in patients with low back pain
...r the sometimes debilitating pain and often cannot reliably ascribe anatomical changes to current symptoms. Still, patients have expected X-rays, or more recently MRI, for many years, and doctors usually have obliged them. "Imaging might not facilitate return to well-being, but it certainly contributes to pat...