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...o spot tiny changes in breast tissue that might go undetected in a film mammogram and to distinguish whether the suspect tissue is benign or cancerous. The researchers also envision that this technique could pinpoint more precisely where a biopsy should be performed. The team of medical physicists plans to run ...New digital technique improves mammography results
...ing the extent of disease and revealing previously undetected breast cancer that has metastasized. She hopes contrast digital mammography will become clinically available for mainstream use in the foreseeable future. In the meantime, she advises that women continue to undergo regular screening mammography fro...Brief telephonic questionnaire detects early signs of dementia
...ns with dementia whose impairment otherwise may go undetected until substantial cognitive deterioration has occurred. A paper describing the questionnaire and its development was published in the August 2003 issue of the Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management. The urgent need for the health care community to d...Florida study shows surgical mishaps more likely in physician offices than surgery centers
...ckly turn into a major problem for someone with an undetected heart problem." In March 2000, spurred by reports of office surgery deaths, the Florida Board of Medicine implemented new office policies, including accreditation of facilities, surgeon credentialing and mandatory reporting of adverse incidents. In A...US prostate cancer deaths down one third in men aged 5074: Europe following?
... successful surgery, a few cancer cells may remain undetected nearby (where they can often be controlled by radiotherapy) or in distant parts of the body (where they cannot, and may eventually get out of control and cause death). One way of controlling distant fragments of prostate cancer or of breast cancer ...Contrast mammography reveals hard-to-find cancers
...en diagnosed with one cancer to identify potential undetected malignancies," he added. For the study, the researchers used dual-energy, contrast-enhanced digital subtraction mammography to evaluate 26 patients whose mammograms or breast exams warranted a biopsy. "By using a contrast agent with digital mammogra...Vitamin D deficiency emerges as new epidemic
...ybe setting themselves up for long term trouble if undetected and untreated vitamin D deficiency puts them at risk for stunted growth and fractures," he adds. How to Get Enough? Teens and adults need to drinking more vitamin D fortified milk at least three servings a day. Today milk comes in more varieties ...U.S. blacks five times as likely as whites to progress to kidney failure
...al Data System), early-stage kidney disease can go undetected for years, making its onset and progression difficult to detect. In order to determine the prevalence of the earlier stages of disease, Hsu and his team turned to a national health survey conducted periodically by the Centers for Disease Control call...Newborn screening is cost-effective in detecting rare but treatable genetic disease
...y production from stores of body fat, MCADD may go undetected until it causes childhood death or brain damage. ... Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "Achild with undetected MCADD can be perfectly normal, then get a viral illness and stop eating. After 12 hours of fasting, ...Incidental PET findings may reveal undetected cancer
...-up," Dr. Agress said, "her cancer could have gone undetected until at some time it may have become larger or possibly spread." Nine abnormalities were benign and three findings were false positives. Of the nine benign lesions, three were considered clinically important due to the potential for local destructio...Lifetime stroke risk higher for women, those with high blood pressure
...than 65 percent of all hypertension remains either undetected or inadequately treated in the United States. This is the first time we have looked at the effect of blood pressure on the lifetime risk of stroke. "Clearly, the findings indicate that blood pressure makes a very large difference in lifetime stroke...Diabetes doubles risk of liver disease and liver cancer
...abetes is usually insidious, asymptomatic and goes undetected until a severe condition, such as liver cancer, occurs. "Because of the significantly increased risk of developing liver disease, we recommend regular testing of liver enzymes for patients with diabetes," said study author Hashem El-Serag, MD, MPH,...Detecting vitamin B12 deficiency prevents anaemia and memory loss
...eath. Unfortunately, vitamin B12 deficiency can go undetected for several years, remaining invisible to doctors while the likelihood of irreversible cell damage increases. Under EUREKA project E! 2263 HOLOTC, Norwegian diagnostics company Axis Shield teamed up with Danish academics to find a way to pick up ear...A new hypothesis about Alzheimer's disease
...tself may have been caused by a distant earthquake undetected in that coastal area. Kelly and his colleagues have studied the basic biology of Alzheimer's and related diseases for many years, looking for new treatment approaches. Now, they think they may have taken a significant step along this path by identif...Key to proper blood vessel growth in eye and ear discovered
...ring unwanted blood vessel growth, perhaps feeding undetected tumors. By contrast, the growth signal the Hopkins team identified seems to function only in the developing retina, where it promotes capillary formation, and in the inner ear, where it appears to help maintain the capillary network. It isn't known ...Office spirometry significantly improves early detection of COPD
...osed cases of COPD, 42 percent would have remained undetected without the use of spirometry. COPD, which includes the conditions of chronic bronchitis and emphysema, is characterized by obstruction of airflow and gradual loss of lung function that is irreversible. "Although there is no cure for COPD, early d...University of Pittsburgh researchers identify potential biomarker for renal cell carcinoma
...ck of a sensitive test for the disease, often goes undetected until the cancer is in an advanced stage. Results will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) and results will be published in abstract 1023 in the AUA proceedings. Robert Getzenberg, Ph.D., and Joseph Chen, ...Envisat's rainbow vision detects ground moving at pace fingernails grow
...uake had resulted from the rupture of a previously undetected fault that extends under the southern part of town, its existence missed by ground surveys. The fault showed up as a distinct band of discontinuity in the interferogram, with motion either side of it ranging from around five up to as high as 30 centi...Research news from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University
...ead to debilitating injuries, but often progresses undetected for years before symptoms appear. Weight-bearing exercise, particularly in the first three decades of life, is key to preventing it. Yet, one national survey reported that only 38% of college students in the US engage in vigorous activity and 20% eng...Drug companies should disclose adverse events before licensing
... Dieppe and colleagues. Furthermore, the impact of undetected adverse events is likely to be made worse if widely marketed new drugs are prescribed haphazardly and rapidly to large numbers of people. Within five months of the launch of rofecoxib, more than 42,000 patients had been prescribed the drug in England...