Ambiguous in Medical News

Infants draw on past to interpret present, understand other people's behavior

... a role in how infants learn to understand the ambiguous actions and behavior of other people. ... familiar actions can boost their understanding of ambiguous action sequences. Their ability to draw on the ... person's goals and desires to understand novel or ambiguous action. But they also suggest that infants may ...

Scientists uncover how the brain controls what the eyes see

... University of Washington, found that when viewing ambiguous images such as optical illusions, patterns of ... when observers were presented with comparable ambiguous and unambiguous images. The fact that some ... we view a real image and when we interpret an ambiguous image in the same way implicates these regions in ...

Wristbands May Lessen Nausea After Radiation

... lessening of nausea. "Some of our body's feelings and sensations are ambiguous and subject to interpretation," Roscoe said. "Your mind cannot make a blister go away or reduce hair loss, but it can interpret ambiguous abdominal sensations and decide how much nausea they represent, based on ...

Wristbands ease nausea with cancer treatment

... groups, none was found. "Some of our body's feelings and sensations are ambiguous and subject to interpretation," Roscoe explained. "Your mind cannot make a blister go away, or reduce hair loss, but it can interpret ambiguous abdominal sensations and decide how much nausea they represent, based on ...

Unanimous union: The mind and body together lean toward 'truthiness'

... despite the presence of facts or evidence. For example, the more ambiguous an answer to a question, the more likely an individual will believe it is ... questions such as is murder sometimes justifiable" are considered ambiguous and could cause the sensation of being pulled in both directions at once; ...

How do we make sense of what we see?

... M.C. Eschers ambiguous drawings transfix us: Are those black birds flying against a white sky or ... shapes to "see?" In a situation where the visual information provided is ambiguous -- whether we are looking at Escher's art or looking at, say, a forest -- ...

More Than Half of Emergency Department Nurses Have Been Physically Assaulted at Work, New Study Finds

... Among those barriers are: the perception that reporting violent incidents might have a negative effect on customer service reports or scores; ambiguous policies for reporting incidents; fear of retaliation by emergency department management, hospital administration, nursing staff or physicians; the ...

Breast Cancer Action Sues to End Gene Patenting

... receive have nowhere to go; and women of African, Hispanic, or Asian decent are at a significant disadvantage because they disproportionately receive ambiguous results when tested by Myriad. "There are so many injustices and inequities in breast cancer," Brenner said. "The time has come to address them ...

New strategy developed to diagnose melanoma

... moles from malignant melanomas by measuring differences in levels of genetic markers. Standard microscopic examinations of biopsied tissue can be ambiguous and somewhat subjective, the researchers say, and supplementing standard practice with the new technique is expected to help clarify ...

Frost & Sullivan: Ageing Population and Availability of Preventative Medicines Propels Growth of European Eye Health Ingredients Market

... the impact of fluctuating economies and prices. Legislation, in particular, is a pertinent challenge for manufacturers as such a scenario results in ambiguous legislative requirements. For instance, eye health ingredients such as lutein and astaxanthin are not covered in the positive list of the food ...

Minorities Distrust Medical System More

... a woman disclosing her HPV status was an admission of infidelity. But, as the interviews continued, they realized the travels of the virus could be ambiguous and that the man, in fact, could have infected the woman. A third study, from the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of ...

Endoscopic ultrasound highly accurate in evaluating ambiguous radiographic findings of the pancreas

... growths or tumors) in patients who were referred for endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) because of CT and/or MRI reports of two common, though somewhat ambiguous findings - enlargement of head of pancreas (HOP) or dilation of the pancreatic duct (PD). The study appears in the August issue of GIE: ...

Seizures in newborns can be detected with small, portable brain activity monitors

... the use of aEEG monitors that also output an uncompressed and unfiltered tracing. That raw tracing provides a backup reading to check against any ambiguous reading from the compressed data. The researchers found that aEEG plus the raw signals yielded better results than unsupplemented aEEG, which ...

Study: Doctors Not Always Sure When to Treat Blood Pressure in People With Diabetes

... Even when pressure is high, uncertainty stems from ambiguous standards, competing demands and overlapping health problems, U-M/VA study finds ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For people ...

Genetic research unveils common origins for distinct clinical diagnoses

... hopes that the growing body of molecular data will help move medicine away from symptom-defined syndromes, which can leave clinicians struggling with ambiguous diagnoses, to approaching disorders from a molecular standpoint. We now have the possibility of merging several rare disorders, he says. And their ...

Independent Review Organizations Poised to Help Reduce Rising Healthcare Cost

... medically -- Decide whether a treatment is experimental based on the latest medical literature -- Decide if health plan language is outdated or ambiguous -- Investigate fraudulent claims -- Explore patient safety and quality-of-care issues -- Reduce liability by using external, board-certified ...

Patients wonder, 'Could this be something serious?'

... 48 years old, with chest pain. Some described their pain as characteristic of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), while others presented more ambiguous chest pain, poorly characterized. They all took part in standard, 15-to-20-minute acute visits. Researchers trained the actors to deliver prompts ...

Sage Software Joins e-Prescribing Coalition for Presidential Petition

... White House plea, electronic prescriptions actually save lives by eliminating miscommunications such as illegible handwriting, unclear abbreviations, ambiguous orders, complex regimens and dosages, and enable a reduction in Adverse Drug Events (ADEs). Burger says that Sage Software's signature on the ...

Mental illness and drug addiction may co-occur due to disturbance in part of the brain

... but who underwent a sham surgery, to equalize their treatment. Rats with damaged (lesioned) amygdalas grew up abnormally under-responsive to ambiguous or potentially threatening stimuli. Not showing the normal caution, they moved significantly more in response to novelty, showed significantly less ...

Sound medicine at Acoustics Meeting

... thyroid nodules and the most cost-effective imaging method for evaluating the thyroid gland. However, ultrasound and other imaging results are often ambiguous and cannot differentiate between malignant and benign thyroid nodules. The overwhelming majority of nodules discovered by ultrasound (as high as 95 ...

Hurricane Katrina Doctor and Nobel Laureate Headline ASCP Annual Meeting

... to become more involved with ASCP and its humanitarian efforts. -- George L. Mutter, MD - "EIN (Endometrial Intraepithelial Neoplasia) and ambiguous Premalignant Endometrial Lesions" 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. -- Hailing from world-renowned Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Dr. Mutter adds ...

Doctors Debate Drugs vs. Surgery for Angina

... and simply writing a few prescriptions," he said. Despite the data, Diamond expects the debate to continue so long as treatment guidelines are ambiguous and don't reflect the latest evidence for the best medical care. "We need to realign the current practice guidelines to be consistent with the ...

Docs Debate Drugs vs. Surgery for Angina

... and simply writing a few prescriptions," he said. Despite the data, Diamond expected the debate to continue so long as treatment guidelines are ambiguous and don't reflect the latest evidence for the best medical care. "We need to realign the current practice guidelines to be consistent with the ...

Neural Basis of Anxiety: Newer Insights

... is responsible for mediating fear responses in ambiguous situations. A mouse that has learned that ... happen. Normal mice show less fear towards such ambiguous cues than to clearly threatening stimuli. ... Biology Unit now discovered that this response to ambiguous stimuli requires a specific receptor molecule for ...

Researchers Have Found Clue to How Fear Changes into Phobia

... removed could not evaluate the true threat of an ambiguous situation, revealed lead researcher, behavioural ... this was done, the mice responded normally to ambiguous threats. The researchers shut down the ... the hippocampus abolished fear reactions only to ambiguous cues. The pathway must be involved in processing ...

Distinct Brain Sections Are Activated While Making Risky Decisions

... brain are activated when people are faced with ambiguous choices versus// choices involving only risk. The ... odds that they would win the gambles, but for the ambiguous choices they were not given this information. The ... were activated while people were making risky or ambiguous choices. They found that activation of specific ...

IVF technique May Increase The Risk Of Birth Defects

... may increase the risk of babies being born with abnormalities such as ambiguous genitalia. Researchers from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, say ... inherited a problem where some cells lacked Y chromosomes, it could cause ambiguous genitalia, Turner’s syndrome, or ...

Drug Patent Compulsory Licensing

... Penn State researcher argues that ambiguous international rules outlining when and how governments may "break" pharmaceutical patents may end up significantly reducing incentives for ...

Rickets Prevention Message is Not Getting Through, Warn Doctors

... growth. It has also been linked to an increased risk of health problems in later life. The authors argue that the NHS Direct website is ambiguous about the need for vitamin supplements. The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition has just published a position statement on vitamin D, ...

Koreans in Canada Feel Put Down by Subtle Racism

... Racistm does upset those at the receiving end, even if it is all subtle, as in Canada apparently. Social slights and ambiguous remarks that are hard to pin down is more dangerous to mental health than overt discrimination, according to a study of 180 Korean immigrants living ...

New Procedure Paves Way for Eunuchs to Choose a Gender and Conceive

... (CAH), which can be life threatening. "It is associated with excessive vomiting and dehydration." Among the TH category, part from the ambiguous genitalia, there is an ovary and testicular tissues in the same child. There is a large urogenital sinus as well as a well-developed phallus. ...

'Gender-Benders': Sports and Sex Determination

... International Association of Athlete Federation (IAAF), had stopped conducting these tests way back in 1991. New rules permit athletes born with ambiguous genitalia ( a condition medically called Intersex ), who have undergone a sex reassignment surgery and who have been legally recognized as either ...

Perception Stabilized – Thanks to Your Brains

... professor in the Systems Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute. "The striking thing is that moving your eyes can actually help resolve ambiguous visual inputs." Our eyes move all the time, whether to follow a moving object or to scan our surroundings. On average, our eyes move several ...

Cartoons to Indicate Aggressiveness in Urban School Girls

... working in school-based aggression prevention programs. Child psychology researchers traditionally use written descriptions of provocative but ambiguous situations, such as apparent social snubs, in surveying children to assess "hostile attributional bias," in which a person interprets another's ...

Updated Sleep Apnea Screening Recommended for Commercial Drivers

... and OSA has been shown to significantly increase a driver's risk of driving drowsy. Yet, current CMV screening and treatment procedures for OSA are ambiguous and not reflective of the latest advancements in the diagnosis and management of OSA,” said Nancy Collop, MD, FCCP, Sleep Institute, American College ...

Information about future risks imperative to heart attack patients

... away unless health care providers rise to the occasion to allay the doubts and uncertainties that ebb and flow in a patient’s mind. Often, ambiguous communication from caregivers cause more harm than good. In certain cases, patients completely avoid exercises, and in others, they continue to ...

Is complete eradication of Leprosy possible in India?

... to about 0.95 cases per 10,000 population. The health care minister announced that leprosy is eliminated from India. // But this statement is very ambiguous because it does not mean that the disease is completely eliminated but the prevalence is significantly reduced. It is reduced o the rate of less than ...

Breaks In The HIV Treatment Resulted In Devastating Results.

... antiretroviral therapies. The symptoms which probe the doctors to request their patients to commence the therapy are very lear in some cases but are ambiguous in others. Many australians are in the practice of discontinuing the antiretroviral therapy once they have regained their immunity but this ...

Impotence drug such as Viagra may cause Vision Loss

... medical profession strongly suggests that Viagra is an important factor in causing (ischemic optic neuropathy) and the wordings in the drug label is ambiguous and the location of this information is buried' Public Citizen also called on the FDA to start a registry of all patients who are diagnosed ...