Actigraphy is a useful way to assess and manage sleep disorders
... normal, healthy adult populations and in-patients suspected of certain sleep disorders, according to practice ...he use of actigraphy in the evaluation of patients suspected of jet lag disorder and non-24 hour sleep/wake syndrome. Further, when polysomnography is not avail...Link found between teens' stress levels and acne severity
... pimples (acne papulopustulosa). The researchers suspected that stress increases the quantity of sebum, which leads to increased acne severity. However, the results showed that sebum production didnt differ significantly between the high-stress and low-stress conditions. The researchers did find that stude...Updated guidelines advise focusing on women's lifetime heart risk
...s blocked arteries. Disparities in care have been suspected as a key culprit for the difference in heart attack deaths between the genders. Researchers analyzed data from 74,389 heart attack patients in France, 30 percent of whom were women. As expected, women were older than men (75 vs. 63 years) and were m...Space technology benefits medical community
... permit a patient to record the date and time of a suspected Raynaud's attack. A week's data is held by the monitor's electronics and is retained even if the device's power is unexpectedly interrupted. Physicians can easily download data into a computer or PDA (personal digital assistant). Software developed...MR angiography highly accurate in detecting blocked arteries
...ers studied 80 patients (44 men and 36 women) with suspected arterial occlusive disease to compare the performance of contrast-enhanced MR angiography to DSA and CT angiography. Two independent readers evaluated the images. Blockages were detected with MR angiography in 208 (reader 1) and 218 (reader 2) segmen...Experts urge strongest isolation for new drug-resistant tuberculosis cases appearing in South Africa
...fits during hospitalization (the median stay for a suspected case of MDR-TB: almost 200 days). As a result, ma...ategies; Find ways to reduce public exposure to suspected or confirmed MDR- and XDR-TB patients in the weeks or months it takes to diagnose the disease; Ac...Drug treatment slows macular vision loss in diabetics
...y blocking lights entry onto the retina. "Weve suspected for awhile that ranibuzumabs ability to shut down VEGFs signaling would do the trick because its highly likely that VEGF is the culprit when it comes to diabetic macular edema," says Nguyen. More than 4 million diabetics in the United States have ...1 in 3 drivers under 'the limit' for alcohol still test positive for drugs
One in three drivers suspected of driving while over the limit, but subsequently ...l for routine drugs testing in all drivers who are suspected of being over the limit for alcohol. The researchers base their findings on 2000 blood and urine s...Effect of tobacco ads may backfire
..., also increasing their likelihood of smoking. "We suspected this the minute we saw the kind of ads the tobacco companies were creating," said Brian Flay, a professor in the Department of Public Health at Oregon State University. "Their objective is to get customers, not to stop customers from finding them." T...Protein 'fingerprint' in spinal fluid could spot Alzheimer's disease
..."A subsequent validation group of 10 patients with suspected Alzheimer's and 18 healthy and demented control subjects turned up similar results," said Relkin. "Based on their clinical symptoms, we found the new screen to have 93 percent sensitivity to probable cases of Alzheimer's and a 90 percent accuracy in ...New recommendations for the diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism
...[we] recommend stratification of all patients with suspected pulmonary embolism according to an objective probability assessment. A negative D-dimer rapid ELISA with a low or moderate probability clinical assessment can safely exclude pulmonary embolism. If pulmonary embolism is not excluded, CT angiography/CT...Study explores cause of exercise intolerance in heart failure patients
... patients with systolic heart failure. Researchers suspected that the same would be true of patients with diastolic heart failure, but the hypothesis had not been tested. For the current study, researchers examined blood flow in the femoral artery, which delivers a majority of the blood received by the leg....Travel outside of the US causing increased health risks to Americans
...eir findings of 1193 travelers from 49 states with suspected dengue infections. Persons infected by Dengue often don't see the symptoms of fever, headaches, muscle and joint pain for up to a week after being affected and have often returned from their travels. If not treated, the disease can cause severe blee...Olive Leaf report documents promising therapeutic interventions for 9-11 workers
...he toxins at the site. The Olive ReLeaf team had suspected since 2002 that heavy metal toxicity might be a causal factor for many of the symptoms the rescue workers and Lower Manhattan residents were reporting. A challenge urine test was administered to measure heavy metal toxicity. Eighty-five percent (85%...Soot from wood stoves in developing world impacts global warming more than expected
...ents to be different from lab measurements, and we suspected the amount of black carbon from these stoves would be higher than open burning, but we were surprised by how much," Roden said. Trees, Water & People and other nonprofit agencies are distributing new low-cost, wood-burning cook stoves in Honduras an...New study finds a positive association between periodontal disease and coronary heart disease
...ion of atherosclerosis. "A number of pathways are suspected to be involved," said Geismar. "One way is that periodontal bacteria directly invade the arterial wall and another way is that bacterial products from the periodontal pocket exert a systemic effect on atherosclerosis development based on the immune s...Japanese adults with diabetes have increased cancer risk
...he JAMA/Archives journals. Researchers have long suspected that there might be an association between diabetes and cancer, but no conclusive evidence has been obtained, according to background information in the article. Diabetes is rapidly becoming more common in Japan, as it is in many other countries. M...Laser probe of a brain pigment's anatomy may offer insight into Parkinson's disease
...xygen while eumelanin is not. Oxygen activation is suspected to play a role in the neurogenic cascade of events behind Parkinson's disease. In the new report, investigators from Duke, North Carolina State University and the Institute of Biomedical Technologies in Segrate, Italy, outlined evidence that neurom...Insulin receptor stops progression of Alzheimer's disease
... fewer lesions in the brain. "If the diagnosis is suspected or patients are in the early phases of AD, there's a good possibility they could get treatment that will help them. It's possible that in the moderate phase, treatment will also help, but more work needs to be done to show that," de la Monte says. ......ages of the coronary arteries of 108 patients with suspected coronary artery disease using multislice computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and conventional coronary angiography. The authors used conventional coronary angiography, in which a small tube is inserted into a blood vessel i...