Scientists report strong evidence of alterations in blood samples of children with autism
...nostic blood test for autism. Scientists have long suspected there were distinct biological components to autism but the technology needed to reveal them has only recently become available." Future research studies need to be done to confirm the findings in a larger group and with younger children. For example...Decline in major heart disease offset by rise in diagnosed angina among British men
...ncerns for health service resources for angina and suspected angina. The results also highlight the need for continued emphasis on the prevention of coronary heart disease, they conclude....HIV treatment not affected by hormonal birth control
...pective, our findings alleviate concerns regarding suspected negative effects of hormonal contraceptive use on the response to HAART. However, sexually active HIV-infected women who wish to use hormonal contraceptives to prevent pregnancy should also continue using condoms to fight the spread of HIV," said Dr....Patients swallow 'camera-in-a-pill' to help doctors check for diseases of esophagus, GERD
... swallowing disorders, pacemakers or with known or suspected gastrointestinal obstruction, strictures, or fistulas are not candidates. Brown says the public may be familiar with the camera pill used for the small bowel/intestine. That camera has been used since 2001 and has been used in more than 150,000 patie...OHSU study finds ginkgo beneficial for MS symptoms
...cells to blood vessels. Many MS patients have long suspected that ginkgo improves disease symptoms. In a recent survey of 1,913 patients in Oregon, 20 percent reported using the supplement and 39 percent found it to be beneficial. However, until now, there was no evidence the supplement had any effect on memor...Actor-patients' requests for medications boost prescribing for depression
...ating doctors; 13 percent of the time, the doctors suspected the actor-patient was from the study. Researchers collected results through a review of actor-patient written reports, audiotapes from the visits, medical charts, and written prescriptions or drug samples. People with major depression manifest severa...Color doppler sonography speeds detection of serious illness in premature infants
...to examine 30 premature and full-term infants with suspected or proven NEC. Researchers then compared the CDS ...rom the 30 premature and full-term newborns having suspected or proven NEC with a control group of 30 premature and full-term newborns without evidence of intest...Abnormal liver tests in a Mediterranean population
...ded as a cause of the abnormal test results in the suspected NAFLD cases, "it must be stressed," say the authors, "that in almost all cases the medication was for one of the possible alterations related to the metabolic syndrome (i.e. anti-hypertensive, lipids lowering, antidiabetic)." Cittanova is involved in...Surgery for children with sleep apnea improves quality of life
... children with sleep-disordered breathing who were suspected of having obstructive sleep apnea at baseline and ...hildren were enrolled in the study on the basis of suspected sleep breathing disturbance. Thirty-one children, 22 boys and nine girls, were diagnosed with obstru...Shape-altering genes linked to ovarian cancer
...forms by changes in its genetic programming. Naora suspected that HOX genes, which direct immature embryonic tissue to form the various body structures during development, could become reactivated in ovarian cancer cells. She and her colleagues tested the effect of four HOX genes on cells derived from the ovar...New LASIK research reveals unexpected finding: Key to better-than-20/20 vision is in the flap
...Irvine. "We now have data validating something we suspected for the past year but hadn't firmly proven, which is that the rate of achieving high levels of vision is better with the IntraLase laser than with the conventional metal microkeratome. On theoretical grounds we knew flap creation with IntraLase woul...Liver may be source of 'good' cholesterol
...cific tissues are involved in HDL production. They suspected the liver played an important role because of high levels of ABCA1 there. To test their hypothesis and learn more about how HDL is produced, the researchers developed mice without the ABCA1 gene in the liver which means their livers cannot produce ...Less cognitive impairment seen in women taking drug for osteoporosis
... were compared to their baseline scores, and women suspected of cognitive impairment or the more-serious cognitive problem of dementia were evaluated by clinical experts and referred for further treatment. Those with dementia were also given brain scans with computerized tomography or magnetic resonance imagin...Golf-related head injuries in children increasing along with sport's popularity
...ed injuries in the hospital," he says, although he suspected a review would find contact sports, such as football or basketball, as more common causes of childhood sports injuries. "Golf-related injuries constitute a common type of sports injury in the pediatric population. The increase in frequency of these i...Angiogenesis factor may help tumors prepare the way for spread to lymph nodes
...s, similar growth of new lymphatic vessels was not suspected until 2001. At that time Detmar and his colleagues showed that human breast tumors implanted into mice induce the growth of lymphatic vessels and that lymphangiogenesis plays a key role in tumors' spread to lymph nodes. It had previously been believ......udy suggests. The study included 198 patients with suspected pulmonary embolism. About half of the patients (98...T is now more widely used to examine patients with suspected pulmonary embolism. It allows radiologists to see more of the arteries throughout the lungs, and to ...