Blood test can accurately diagnose heart failure in patients with kidney dysfunction
...s not seem to be much difference between these two markers with respect to their diagnostic usefulness in patients with kidney disease. While kidney disease modestly reduces the diagnostic accuracy of both markers, when used in the appropriate manner, both tests appear to return identical information." Besi...Successful treatment for acute heart failure remains elusive
...and development and validation of known prognostic markers to guide AHFS interventions. The report also states that a significant number of AHFS patients are not being evaluated for potential beneficial surgical procedures that include myocardial revascularization, LV reconstruction, mitral valve surgery, ...Misdosing common for powerful anti-clotting drugs
...ings on an electrocardiograph or elevated chemical markers of cell death. The team's analysis of the records revealed that 42 percent of the patients in the sample received doses of the anti-clotting drugs outside of the recommended range. They found that those patients who had excess doses had increased ris...Patients and researchers differ on perception of remission from depression
...ver, because there is no way to measure biological markers for depression like measuring cholesterol or blood pressure mental health professionals rely on symptoms as an indicator of recovery. Full remission is defined as "a relatively brief period" during which a patient has very few symptoms. While norm...NCI issues clinical announcement for preferred method of treatment for advanced ovarian cancer
...atment, NCI is funding studies to identify disease markers and develop improved screening techniques, enabling earlier detection and treatment of the disease. An estimated 22,220 women in the United States were diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2005. It causes more deaths in the United States than any other c...Genetics plays a role in the side effects experienced by people taking painkillers
... part of a strategy to determine genetic and other markers that might help predict response and safety of these drugs, including susceptibility to cardiovascular complications. The study looked at people taking two popular painkillers--rofecoxib (Vioxx, Merck) and celecoxib (Celebrex, Pfizer)--known as COX...Motor symptoms associated with increased risk for future Parkinson's disease
...s researchers continue work to pinpoint biological markers of PD, assessing these types of complaints might help narrow down candidates for brain imaging, psychological testing or other methods of early diagnosis, they conclude....Caloric restriction appears to prevent primary aging in the heart
...of developing diabetes and reduced body fat. These markers indicate less secondary aging. In this study, Fontana's team found that markers of inflammation indicative of primary aging were much lower in the caloric restriction group. Their ...People who restrict calories have 'younger' hearts
...nd they tend to have more desirable levels of some markers of inflammation and fibrosis, according to a new study in the Jan. 17, 2006, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. "Eating less, if it is a high-quality diet, will improve your health, delay aging, and increase your chance of l...Soy phytoestrogens may block estrogen effects
...tural plant estrogens found in soy do not increase markers of breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women. In ...called isoflavones, stimulate cell growth or other markers for cancer risk in breast tissue," said Charles E. Wood, D.V.M., Ph.D., lead researcher, from Wake F...Newest M.D. Anderson SPORE to fund breast cancer research
...reast cancer tumors to determine new indicators or markers to more accurately predict risk, detect cancer or measure response to treatment. Cyclin E as a novel and powerful prognosticator for breast cancer First discovered by M. D. Anderson researchers in 2002, this new molecular tag may be helpful to phys...Mount Sinai expands cutting-edge molecular testing
...phocyte gene rearrangement which act as diagnostic markers for certain lymphomas and leukemias. These tests and other molecular diagnostics tests performed at Mount Sinai allow physicians to diagnose, treat and monitor diseases but most importantly, improve the lives of many patients seen at Mount Sinai. "W...New compound stops brain cell degeneration in Alzheimer's disease
...cits. The compound also restored normal levels of markers of synaptic dysfunction in the hippocampus, the area of the brain that helps regulate memory and is gradually destroyed in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. Treatment with the compound also attenuated Alzheimer's-like behavioral deficit...JCI table of contents: January 19, 2006
...nal blood vessels even though other pro-angiogenic markers are expressed. To determine whether the astrocytes were altered, the authors analyzed fibronectin levels in normal and Tlx knockout mouse retinas. The Tlx knockout astrocytes did not form fibronectin matrices, thus explaining the failure of these mic...News nuggests: University of Pittsburgh health sciences research roundup
...ase Risk Measuring levels of several inflammatory markers rather than a single marker can substantially impr...ificantly elevated levels of at least two of three markers (interleukin-6, serum amyloid A, and C-reactive protein) had a more than four-times greater risk of ...Healing from research: A real possibility
...oad images which will then be assessed for retinal markers of future cardiovascular disease,'' Associate professor Tien Wong said. "We hope the treating specialist will then be able to determine someone's likelihood of developing cardiovascular disease by looking at the images so that appropriate interventio...White blood cell count, inflammation linked to cancer deaths
...earchers have examined whether WBC count and other markers of inflammation can predict cancer, the authors write. To assess this potential link, Anoop Shankar, M.D., Ph.D., National University of Singapore, and colleagues studied 3,189 Australians with an average age of 65.9 years who were part of the Blue ...Erectile dysfunction may warn of heart disease
... evidence for severe coronary artery blockages and markers of a poor cardiovascular prognosis. In this study, ED was a stronger predictor of significant coronary heart disease than any of the traditional office-based risk factors, such as family history, cholesterol levels or blood pressure. ED was also ass...University of Kentucky researcher identifies key to macular degeneration progression
... the C3a and C5a components in drusen are not only markers of AMD that will develop into the late-stage form of the disease, but that they are in fact causal. The presence of these components stimulates the progression of AMD. In the future, patients with early-stage AMD may be screened to determine if these...... to determine the level of expression of molecular markers of breast cancer in four established breast cancer...s routinely examine breast cancer tissue for these markers to characterize tumor type and determine prognosis using standard techniques. But these tests may ta...