High-tech scan for blocked arteries matches conventional tests in finding root of symptoms
... be more sensitive to the presence of calcium, its sensitivity can be as high as 92 percent of the time, preventing doctors from missing plaques but also raising the risk of false positives to nearly 50 percent. Other settings can minimize the risk of false positives but also reduce the chance that the scan will......ication to prevent a pregnancy from rape. Cultural sensitivity is key to improving communication. Developmentally disabled children are more at risk for child abuse and neglect, but once abused, are at a greater risk for undiagnosed mental health problems. As sexual predators increasingly lurk on the Internet,...Research project to help pharmaceutical industry examine molecular structure of pills
... on a mixtureof the two. "If we could bring chiral sensitivity to the near infrared range, it could help the industry improve quality control over its products," Nafie says....Lidocaine patch shown in large trial to relieve post-herpetic neuralgia
...n be more painful than shingles. PHN pain and skin sensitivity can continue for months or even years. The elderly are particularly prone to developing PHN. One out of 4 persons under age 55 years old who have been diagnosed with shingles will experience PHN. However for persons over 70 years of age, 3 out 4 pers......abetes UK. New treatments that increase the bodys sensitivity to insulin address this problem and may therefore ...data. Research has shown that increasing the bodys sensitivity to its own insulin by using drugs such as AVANDIA (rosiglitazone) a member of the thiazolidinedione...New sensor upgrades artificial bomb sniffers
... researchers say their new sensor will improve the sensitivity and reliability of current prototypes. Their findings are reported in the November 1 issue of Analytical Chemistry, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society, the worlds largest scientific society. Trained dogs and people armed with...... in the dementia process demonstrated a prognostic sensitivity of 93%, and a prognostic specificity of 76%. Overall accuracy was thus 88% (250/284). We believe that there are compelling reasons why PET is a valuable tool for physicians attempting to determine whether the memory lapses and behavior patterns see...Study shows no benefit to home uterine monitoring
... predicting preterm delivery nor did any have good sensitivity or provide a positive predictive value. "We found relatively small differences in contraction frequency between women who subsequently delivered a preterm infant and th...Research shows way to boost morphine's pain-killing benefits
...analgesic effect is to test a laboratory rats heat sensitivity to a few-second exposure to a beam of non-burning ...eel the heat. Rats given morphine showed much less sensitivity to the heat, but after four days, they became tolerant to morphines analgesic effect and flicked the...CRP provides another reason to lose weight and gain heart health
...fat loss. In response to the weight loss, insulin sensitivity and the cardiovascular disease risk profile of the women improved significantly. The plasma CRP reduction was apparently not related to estrogen levels or the use of cholesterol-lowering drugs or aspirin, which are known to affect CRP levels.The mec...Computer-assisted detection of proteomic pattern could help screening for ovarian cancer
...ognised as not being cancer. This result yielded a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 95% (ie. 5% false-positive results). Emanuel Petricoin III (FDA) and Lance Liotta (NCI) comment: "These findings justify a prospective population-based assessment of proteomic pattern technology, as a screening tool for a...Brown researchers find new photoreceptor and visual system in the eye
...hese cells are responsible for the nervous systems sensitivity to patterns, objects and movement in the visual world. Now there is a third photoreceptor, say scientists at Brown. The new cell resides deeper in the retina than rods and cones and looks remarkably different, more like the underside of a canopy of t...Filatov Eye Institute contests validity of recent study
...y eyes, nighttime starbursts, and reduced contrast sensitivity occurred more frequently. The Academy was quick to point out, however, that it is difficult to compare results from the reviewed studies with current practices using the most recent generation of lasers because of the rapid evolution of LASIK technol...Blood lactate measurement could lead to earlier identification of patients for liver transplant
...r severe acidosis). However, strategies to improve sensitivity and to facilitate earlier transplantation are requ...ld value of 3.5 mmol/L early after admission had a sensitivity of 67%, and a specificity of 95% (ie, 5% false results). The combination of early and postresuscitat...Intensive exercise improves body's ability to process blood sugars
...ortantly, 30 days after stopping exercise, insulin sensitivity was still 24 percent higher than pre-exercise levels, indicating that beneficial effects of exercise persisted." The Duke study was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "These results provide strong evidence that long-...Multimillion-dollar pain research center funded at Wake Forest
...that have experienced nerve injury that results in sensitivity to light touch have a much lower potential to abuse heroin that they are self-administering for their pain. A fourth laboratory project will study that phenomenon and try to determine what parts of the brain are being affected by heroin in the presen...UCLA scientists identify genetic link to migraine
...en with pain behind one eye, nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light and noise. Some migraines are preceded by an aura neurological symptoms revealed by visual disturbances up to one hour before the headache begins....Oral diabetes drug shows promise in preventing miscarriage in common infertility disorder
...abolism. The drug, metformin, increases the body's sensitivity to insulin and is used to treat non-insulin- dependent diabetes. Metformin also has proven successful in treating some of the symptoms of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), the most common form of female infertility in which women fail to ovulate. ...UCSF study shows breast cancer screening programs that interpret the most mammograms
...mammography, said Esserman. The intent to maximize sensitivity to identify all potential cancers is one of the reasons sometimes cited for the relative acceptance in the U.S. of false positives. This study maintains that minimizing false positives has not been shown to be associated with a lack of thoroughness...