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PCR emerging as a promising technique for Diagnosing Urinary Tuberculosis

Urinary Tuberculosis is often difficult to diagnose and many a times the diagnosis is made by exclusion. Urine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is emerging as a promising technique for early diagnosis of Urinary Tuberculosis. The technique involves detection of bacteria by facilitating rapid amplificat...

Arthroscopy for Ankles

...n, allowing the surgeon to see inside the joint to diagnose and treat problems. Arthroscopy has been used for about 25 years and was first used for knees, says Dr. John J Stienstra, an orthopedic surgeon at the Permanente Medical Group in Union City, California. Over the years, arthroscopy instruments have ...

No allergy at all !

...tive that doctors have the right kinds of tools to diagnose allergies, Szeinbach says, and not all commercial tests are created equal....

New technique to diagnose heart disease

A new technique is used to diagnose heart problems. A new method of scanning based on magnetic resonance imaging is proving to be a useful alternative to conventional methods for diagnosing heart problems.//The usual technique for diagnosing blocked arteries that are the cause of heart...

Syphilis uncovered

...biotics. In addition, the disease is difficult to diagnose and often repeated blood tests are needed.Until now scientists have been unable to keep Treponema pallidum, the bacterium which causes syphilis, alive in the laboratory long enough to work on a vaccine or better treatments. Dr George Weinstock, who ...

FDA approves first pocket-sized EKG machine

...ordings of the heart's electrical signals, used to diagnose heart attacks, irregular heartbeats and other cardiac problems.// The new PocketView ECG works just as well as full-size electrocardiograph machines, the Food and Drug Administration determined - but is the size of a handheld computer. In fact, it'...

A unique factor in breathing disorder

...ht. Hence by looking at a facial outline one could diagnose or predict breathing problems....

Blood test diagnoses heart failure in short time

Generally, doctors diagnose heart disease by taking a history of symptoms, a physical exam, an electrocardiogram, an ultrasound scan and blood tests to rule out other causes, such as kidney disease.// Even with all this, they are often wrong. A 15-minute blood test allows docto...

Blood test may aid foretell Alzheimer's

...ease to detect and doctors usually are not able to diagnose it or treat symptoms until the condition has progressed into more advanced stages. There is no cure for Alzheimer's but scientists are interested in an early screening test because earlier detection could mean starting treatment before symptoms -- su...

Computer Program can assist to detect Heart Attack

...earch, a computer screening program can accurately diagnose a heart attack even when some information required...ans may be able to rely on the computer program to diagnose patients with chest pain in "real time," the study's authors say. In the study, Dr. William G. Baxt ...

New technique for heart enlargement

...ler tissue imaging (DTI) as a more powerful way to diagnose hypertrophic cardiomyopathy earlier in a patient's life.// Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) causes thickening of the left ventricle of the heart and is the most common cause of sudden cardiac death in the young, affecting one in 350 individuals. Whi...

A way to eradicate allergy

...tive that doctors have the right kinds of tools to diagnose allergies, Szeinbach says, and not all commercial tests are created equal....

Oral memory indicates future Alzheimer's patients

...dementia. Further research will help reveal how to diagnose and offer early help to those at risk of Alzheimer's dementia....

Latest device for identifying Melanomas

...Polartechnics said that in terms of its ability to diagnose melanomas, it matches top specialists.// Image analysis and computer-aided diagnostic software for SolarScan, which has been under development for eight years, was designed for Polartechnics by Australia's national scientific research organization, ...

Heart test may detect death risk

...ed in a recent study, that a test commonly used to diagnose heart attacks may also identify patients at increased risk of death after balloon angioplasty, a new study shows.// Blood levels of the enzyme creatine kinase-MB rise after a heart attack. The rise indicates injury to the heart muscle. Measuring CK-M...

Heart problems detected better with a Cardiac MRI

...ac MRI would improve doctors' ability to correctly diagnose a set of heart problems known as acute coronary syndrome (ACS) which can lead to heart attack. The study involved 161 patients who came to the ER after experiencing 30 minutes of chest pain, but had ECG results that didn't suggest a heart attack. The...

Snoring May Be Sign of Asthma in Kids

...ighttime cough, Goodwin explains, is often used to diagnose asthma in children, but the findings suggest that in some cases snoring may be causing the coughing.Although snoring may raise the risk of night cough even in children who do not have asthma, Sullivan notes that childhood asthma and snoring do appear...

A Reason To Smile

...here are a variety of dental uses for lasers. Some diagnose cavities, while others remove gum and tooth structure to treat disease. Some are even used to whiten teeth. Dentists also use lasers to help detect dental disease in its early stages. Another use is for the treatment of gum disease to remove disease...

Brain Scans Help Predict Alzheimer's Disease

...clinical assessments led neurologists to correctly diagnose their patients as free of progressive dementia 66 percent of the time. When a negative PET scan was added to the mix, that figure jumped to 96 percent. Similar results were seen for patients with positive PET scans. Eighty-four percent of neurologist...

Urine Test for Kidney Cancer

... in 2003. Doctors currently use several methods to diagnose the disease, including magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography scans, ultrasounds, and, ultimately, biopsy. Since diagnosis is difficult, about 25 percent to 40 percent of people who are diagnosed with the disease are already in an advanced s...

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