World first in medical robotics
...g and controlling by means of software programs an initial prototype of an untethered device (a ferromagnetic 1.5- millimetre-diameter sphere) within the carotid artery of a living animal placed inside a clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. Encouraged by these results, staff at the Polytechni...Online book helps children understand the effects of stroke
...ations imposed by the stroke, she moves beyond her initial resentment of those changes and develops her own ways of helping her grandfather celebrate and cope with the ups and downs of recovery. Ami Wilson, a student at Maryville University, wrote the story during an internship at the Internet Stroke Cente...Follow-up endoscopic surveillance in colorectal cancer patients improves survival
...eillance with colonoscopy, and it appears that the initial surveillance colonoscopy should be performed at on...ear survival was similar regardless of whether the initial follow-up colon exam was performed within 18 months of diagnosis (78.0 percent), between 18 and 35 m...Genetic pathways to curable and incurable forms of pancreatic cancer identified
... of the cancer, Hingorani said. Conversely, the initial lesions that lead to the more common and deadly form of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, called pancreatic epithelial neoplasms, are tiny enough to be undetectable until the disease has progressed to the point where survival is almost nil. Moreover,...Sheffield scientists light up bacteria
...ensor will have widespread applications beyond the initial project. Dr Steve Rimmer from the Universitys Department of Chemistry, said: "The project is a great example of progress that can be achieved at the life sciences/physical sciences interface and we hope the project will deliver technology of real ...Mental illnesses appear common among veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan
...irst VA clinic visit (median of 13 days), and most initial mental health diagnoses (60 percent) were made in non-mental health clinics, mostly primary care settings," the authors write. "The youngest group of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom veterans (age, 18 to 24 years) were at greatest risk ...UW launches study testing adult stem cells for heart damage repair
...nths following the investigative procedure. "The initial results from Phase I of the trial were encouraging," Raval says. "Subjects reported feeling better with reductions in chest pain and improved exercise capacity during the early stage of the trial. That's encouraging to us." Coronary artery disease ...Study shows no survival benefit for CT screening for lung cancer
... Instituto Tumori in Italy. Each study provided an initial CT scan and then at least three subsequent annual exams. The researchers followed the volunteers to see how many had cancers detected by screening and how many had surgery to remove them. They then used government death records to follow the study p...Prescriptions for health advice online
...e quality, health consumers subject websites to an initial weeding-out process that will eliminate most NHS and drug company websites from the search within a matter of seconds. The study, carried out by Professor Pamela Briggs at Northumbria University, together with colleagues at both Northumbria and She...Antidepressants improve post-stroke 'thinking outside the box'
... of treatment. It took another 21 months after the initial treatments for the antidepressants to have a detectable effect," Paradiso said. The investigators hypothesize that antidepressants may foster recovery of neural tissue not directly destroyed by the stroke, yet because the process is slow, it takes ...Cost control measures limit patient and physician choice in psychotropic medications
...hat gave the physician some leeway in choosing the initial medication. However, in many plans patients who did not respond to one of those drugs faced a substantial hike in copayment (to an average of $38) in order to try a potentially more effective drug. Coverage of drugs for ADHD was more restrictive....New details in schizophrenia treatment trial emerge
...of all patients in the CATIE studywho completed an initial evaluation before the study began and were availab...ers found that those patients who stuck with their initial treatment showed some improvement in their psychosocial functioning, and there were no differences a...Aspirin reduces esophageal-cancer risk in people with most-aggressive form of Barrett's esophagus
...tts-related esophageal tissue was evaluated at the initial study visit for a variety of known cancer biomarkers, but the genetic abnormalities that were most strongly predictive of progression toward cancer were: Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at 9p and 17p loss on the short arms of chromosomes 17 and 9. S...Early sex may lead teens to delinquency, study shows
...tional Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. An initial survey was conducted in 1994-95 of students from across the country in grades 7 to 12. These students attended 132 high schools and their "feeder" middle schools. This study included students who reported they were virgins in this first survey. Th...Editorial: Pay more attention to genital herpes infections in HIV-infected persons
...n Seattle in 1988. The Nagot paper builds upon the initial work the group did by showing that daily antiviral...ncorporate more routine testing for HSV-2 into the initial evaluation of HIV-positive patients. The Nagot paper "has direct clinical implications, suggesting t...Cancer drug can extend survival in patients with deadly brain tumors
...th malignant brain tumors that have recurred after initial treatment," said James Vredenburgh, M.D., a brain ...tudy of Avastin to corroborate the results of this initial study, Vredenburgh said. Kate Carr, president and chief executive officer of Accelerate Brain Canc...Penn researchers find that chronic dizziness may be caused by psychiatric and neurologic illnesses
...ss, whereas one-third had anxiety disorders as the initial cause. Therefore, CSD may be triggered by either neurotologic or psychiatric conditions. Key diagnostic features were identified in the clinical history for each illness. For example, those with migraines often had nausea or vomiting, anxiety d...New research may overturn conventional wisdom on drug-resistant tuberculosis
... to fewer drugs. In the remaining 32 patients, the initial sample was drug-susceptible or resistant to at least one drug and the subsequent sample resistant to one or more drugs. Of these patients, 84 percent (27 patients) had before-and-during samples with different genetic patterns and only 16 percent (5 p...Multislice CT speeds the diagnosis of chest pain in the emergency room
...mited, confined to low risk individuals based upon initial evaluation, and that the primary benefit was in detecting abnormalities sooner and more inexpensively, but not more accurately. The effect of the earlier diagnosis upon outcome also remains to be determined." A large randomized controlled trial wil......strological sign had its own unique disorders, his initial results were not reproduced when they were explicitly tested in a second population. Scientists take pains to make sure their clinical studies are conducted accurately, says Austin, but sometimes erroneous conclusions will be obtained solely due to...