Young athletes' post-concussion migraine may signal greater neurocognitive impairment
...m and widely used today as an objective assessment tool to help determine neurocognitive effects of concussion and measure recovery. Significant differences existed among the three groups for all outcome measures, Mihalik reported. The PTM group demonstrated significantly greater neurocognitive deficits w...Jefferson neurosurgeons, radiation oncologists wrap radiation around spine for cancer pain relief
...ters in the nation. "Shaped beam surgery is a new tool for selected patients," says Walter J. Curran Jr., M.D., professor and chair of Radiation Oncology at Jefferson Medical College and clinical director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson. He notes that the technology provides an improved ability ...Functional MRI enables noninvasive evaluation of epilepsy patients
...s Hospital. "This imaging technology is a powerful tool that improves surgical decision making in patients being considered for seizure surgery." Dr. Medina's study evaluated the effect of fMRI results on the diagnostic work-up and treatment planning of 60 consecutive seizure disorder patients, including......ett of SensArray. The Integrated Wafer system is a tool for monitoring temperatures during the manufacture...system fulfills the need for a temperature-mapping tool that collects thermal data without disturbing the environment of the highly automated modern product...Largest study to date reveals baseline findings for flexible sigmoidoscopy
...scale use of flexible sigmoidoscopy as a screening tool for colorectal cancer. The report, published in the July 6 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI), is part of the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial, a randomized, community-based longitudinal s...New model may better predict outcomes for children with autism and autistic spectrum disorders
A new classification tool may allow healthcare professionals treating children with autism and autism-related disorders to more systematically sort out the combination of traits in the condition, and to better predict how children may improve over time. If the model holds up ...MRI better than FDG PET at detecting liver tumors
...or PET. "FDG PET has been shown to be an excellent tool for gastrointestinal cancer staging, but its role in the detection of liver metastases had not been established. Contrast-enhanced MRI, on the other hand, is considered a sensitive imaging technique for liver lesion depiction," said Dushyant V. Sahan...Heart Health Conference to promote heart plan for Europe
...abilitation (EACPR)(3). The ESC's risk assessment tool HeartScore also was covered(4)....Postpartum treatment key for depression: U of T study
...nt research that health professionals can use as a tool when seeking to treat new mothers."...Strong magnetic fields aid severe depression
...with other methods. 'TMS is just a new therapeutic tool which can't help in all cases of depression,' adds Michael Wagner, cautioning against excessively high expectations. There are only a few institutions in Germany where the effects of this relatively new therapy for severe depression are being investi...OHSU researchers help develop portable device to assist those combating balance disorders
...elieve this type of device can become an important tool in combating balance disorders associated with problems like vestibular loss diabetic neuropathy, or Parkinson's disease, where a person's ability to maintain balance is impaired," explained Fay Horak, Ph.D., a senior scientist at the NSI and senior ...New arrival at UC Davis Medical Center
... the UC Davis Center for Virtual Care. "This is a tool that gives our medical staff and other participants the most realistic training possible in pediatric care and emergencies." Using a computer, the simulator can be programmed to generate a wide variety of responses to pediatric problems and medical i...Why were the HIV prevention trials in commercial sex workers abandoned?
...ffective HIV vaccine, which is felt to be the only tool that can definitively break the epidemic, Lange says that there is a pressing need to develop female-controlled prevention technologies that do not require the male partner's consent, and the protestors are getting in the way of such development. "A...Emory researchers offer new approach for testing potential HIV vaccines in animals
...tentially giving AIDS researchers a more effective tool in developing successful treatments to prevent HIV infection. In the Emory study, the researchers, using computer simulations, developed an experimental design in which animals are repeatedly exposed to low doses of HIV (similar to how humans are ex...Mental health following stroke, spinal cord injury; sensory evaluation tools
... an artificially intelligent communication/control tool for speech and motor-impaired individuals. A hidden Markov model (HMM)-based system for recognition of dysarthric speech was constructed, with special emphasis on the effect of high-frequency spectral components on the system's recognition rate. A se...Hopkins researchers identify risk factors for prediction of lethal prostate cancer after recurrence
...hree risk factors and developed a simple reference tool that doctors can use to determine who is at high r...tate cancer recurrence following surgery. The new tool - a set of tables that assess a combination of blood tests, the surgical pathology results and time ...New study: Sexually transmitted disease treatment can be effectively administered by sex partners
...nt-delivered partner treatment could be a valuable tool to add to the physician's black bag....Researchers identify gene set linked to breast cancer's spread to lungs
...etastasis, and could lead to a possible prognostic tool and new targets for breast cancer treatment. "Our work shows that the ability of a tumor to form metastases depends on the combined action of multiple genes and a different set of genes is required for each organ the tumor spreads to," said Joan M...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, August 2, 2005
...s say that information technology is "an important tool to improve the safety and efficiency of U.S. health care, but its adoption remains limited largely because of a lack of aligned financial incentives and national standards."......hers, with satellites proving an especially useful tool for analysing trends and seasonal variations in atmospheric pollution. Envisat's Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (SCIAMACHY) can identify multiple trace gases including the pollutant nitrogen dioxide created art...