Autistic children's abnormal metabolic profile findings
...e discovered by the researchers could be used as a diagnostic test for autism to support the purely behavioral diagnosis currently in use. It also would be important, she says, to determine whether the abnormal profile is present in high-risk children, such as toddler siblings of autistic children and/or toddle......is a novel and potentially very useful approach to diagnostic ultrasound," said Dr. Phillip W. Ralls, a professor and vice chair in the USC Keck School of Medicine department of radiology. "The potential clinical benefits of the superb images obtained by this completely safe, non-invasive technique are very ex...2005 Potamkin Prize goes to neurologists for research in early detection of Alzheimer's disease
...oncept of mild cognitive impairment as a bona fide diagnostic category on the continuum between normal aging and early dementia. The impact of MCI has been enormous, and has transformed clinical and basic science research."...Painless test using teardrops may speed diagnosis of Sjgren's syndrome
...rs in Japan are developing a faster, more accurate diagnostic test for Sjgrens (SHOW-grins) syndrome, an incurab...es. The development of an accurate and noninvasive diagnostic test [for Sjgrens] would be of considerable value in the clinical field, Tomosugi says. Early diagno...Blood test can accurately diagnose heart failure in emergency patients
...g a widely-available, accurate, and cost-effective diagnostic method would be of extraordinary value." Proteins called natriuretic peptides are produced when the cardiac muscle is under stress. The role of testing for these proteins in several forms of cardiovascular disease has been the subject of intense rec...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...c about the size of a coin. Within minutes, a full diagnostic examination will be complete including the usual b... include the "lab-on-a-chip", which offers all the diagnostic functions of a medical laboratory, and other biosensors based on nano-sized tubes, wires, magnetic p...Little answers to world's biggest problems
...c about the size of a coin. Within minutes, a full diagnostic examination will be complete including the usual battery of "blood work" tests, plus analysis for infectious diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS, hormonal imbalances, even cancer. That remarkable piece of plastic is called a "lab-on-a-chip" and it ...Technology helps Stanford shed new light on coronary bypass surgery
...r advances. "Every time you have a new diagnostic tool, it stimulates new technology for therapy," Fitzgerald said, pointing to colonoscopy as an example. "It wasn't until we had a video camera illuminating the inside of the gut that we learned how to take out polyps and learned to stage colorectal ...Women not given same tests for stroke
...ke. Researchers examined the use by gender of four diagnostic tests: echocardiography of the heart, brain MRI, ultrasound of the carotid artery, and EKG. There was no difference between men and women in the initial severity of the strokes. Sixty percent of women received carotid ultrasound, compared to 71 perce...NCI's Patient Navigator Research Program: Questions and answers
...ncer detection procedure, through necessary cancer diagnostic tests, to completion of cancer treatment. 3. What are the benefits of the Patient Navigator Program? Evidence shows that in addition to unequal access to health care, racial/ethnic minorities and underserved populations do not always receive time...Virtual colonoscopy: Virtually promising
... popularity of colonoscopy for screening, it was a diagnostic and therapeutic procedure. Unlike colonoscopy, mos...en for disease. Colonoscopy is a screening test, a diagnostic test and a therapeutic procedure all in one, which may be considered an advantage by some people; ho...'Virtual colonoscopy' effective in finding most polyps but may miss small ones
...ansing preparation once rather than twice, for the diagnostic CT colonography and then again for any necessary polyp removal," Turkelson says. If CT colonography becomes more popular as a colorectal cancer screening test, the resulting increase in follow-up colonoscopies "could be quite substantial," according...UQ develops West Nile virus treatment
...hich is undergoing preclinical trials. A West Nile diagnostic reagent also developed by Dr Hall has been licensed for sale in the U.S. and will be used to track the spread of the disease in animals and birds in North America. Dr Hall said it was very satisfying to see his research being used in North America, ...Access to mammography may worsen
... technologists to adequately deliver screening and diagnostic services to the public, and the situation may get ...ome more centralized, perhaps making screening and diagnostic mammography impossible for some women," said the study's lead author, Carl D'Orsi, M.D., professor o...The World Congress on Cornelia de Lange Syndrome in Italy
...in confirming a clinical suspicion and there is no diagnostic laboratory test for a certain and direct pre-natal diagnosis. A NIPBL gene was identified about one year ago, localised on the short arm of chromosome 5, the mutations of which can be found in approximately 40-50% of the subjects suffering from the ...Guava and AHF Global Immunity bring low cost AIDS diagnosis to resource-limited countries
..."Until now, the cost of commercially available CD4 diagnostic testing for patient monitoring has remained very high, and access to affordable, accurate testing methods especially in areas outside of major urban centers very low," said Jeff Harvey, vice president of customer solutions at Guava Technologies. "M...Patients swallow 'camera-in-a-pill' to help doctors check for diseases of esophagus, GERD
...ize of a large vitamin pill, and is a non-invasive diagnostic alternative to traditional endoscopy, the most common procedure used to examine the esophagus, " says gastroenterologist Dr. Michael Brown of Rush University Medical Center, the first center in Chicago to offer this to patients. "In traditional endos...Prevalence of concussion effects linked to 'pot of gold' lawsuits, researcher says
...nes does Lithuania have? How sophisticated are its diagnostic techniques and hardware?" Beyond the ethical issue of feigning postconcussional syndrome, Hall says there are serious health risks. Standard treatment can include narcotics, sometimes with spinal injections, which come with risks to the central nervo...Mailman School shares new virus identification technologies
...reene Lab. "We fully expect that by sharing these diagnostic platforms with some of the best minds in infectious disease research, the technology will continue to improve and that increasingly sensitive and rapid diagnostics will result." Funding for the development of these technologies was received from the ...MDCT accurate for diagnosing coronary artery disease in patients with no to moderate calcification
...le detection of coronary artery stenosis with high diagnostic accuracy, say researchers from Tuebingen University Hospital in Germany. Coronary artery stenosis is the narrowing of coronary arteries due to the build-up of calcified plaques. The study included 37 patients, 28 of whom had a calcium score of less t...