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More Accurate "PROSTATE CANCER" Test can save Unnecessary Biopsies

...ats around freely. This free form of PSA is key to identifying the patient who requires a biopsy. Jean deKernion-Urologist, at the UCLA School of Medicine says, "A lot of people have a high PSA and don't have cancer. The free PSA helps you discern those people from the people who do have cancer. Free" PSA lev...

Patient’s perception of health status helps in better recover

...e helpful in addition to other clinical factors in identifying high-risk patients," they infer. "Interventions to improve levels of health and social support before surgery may improve symptomatic outcome.” So apart from going to a good doctor it is also important that we have the burning desire to get well and...

Gene therapy restores sight

...irth". Dr Stone said a further challenge would be identifying the exact genetic defect for LCA."Different people with LCA have defects in different genes, or different parts of the same gene, and this varies from one continent to another," he said. He was confident, nevertheless, that geneticists could achieve ...

Biotechnology on the lead

...aths within a week. Part of the problem would be identifying anthrax as the cause of death, however. Dr Craig H...ces in biotechnology could speed up the process of identifying the nature of any attack from several days to just a few hours. "The way people have detected bacter...

Reducing Lung Cancer Risk

...the 1995 study. The first study was concerned with identifying the main causes of the rise in lung cancer, which showed the prevailing role of tobacco. The second study was concerned not just with reconfirming the importance of tobacco but also with assessing the lesser effects of indoor air pollution of some ho...

Computer Program can assist to detect Heart Attack

...e artificial neural network was highly accurate at identifying patients who were having a heart attack, Baxt's team reports in the April issue of the journal Annals of Emergency Medicine. Based on telephone calls made to patients a month after they had been treated in the emergency department, the screen was alm...

Identifying bacteria made amiable

...nsland group have developed an efficient method of identifying strains of bacteria, which will help to manage outbreaks of diseases such as meningococcal disease. The Cooperative Research Centre for Diagnostics, based at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has taken advantage of two new technologies// th...

Ulcer Surgery connected to danger of Pancreatic Cancer

... Pancreatic cancer is often difficult to treat, so identifying any patients who might be at increased risk of the disease may help detect the disease before it becomes untreatable....

Control of anger disorder connected to Brain Dysfunction

...o OMPCC function, IED patients had more difficulty identifying various odors in "scratch-and-sniff" samples. All of this suggests that dysfunction in the OMPCC is involved in this impulse-control disorder, the researchers point out. In this study, researchers notes that individuals with other psychiatric disorde...

Gene therapy restores sight

...irth". Dr Stone said a further challenge would be identifying the exact genetic defect for LCA."Different people with LCA have defects in different genes, or different parts of the same gene, and this varies from one continent to another," he said. He was confident, nevertheless, that geneticists could achieve ...

Change in walking might indicate Dementia

...cated, these findings would provide a strategy for identifying a group at very high risk for vascular dementia and would facilitate the introduction of preventive interventions designed to reduce the incidence of non-Alzheimer's dementia, especially vascular dementia," say researchers....

Bioengineering production strains - Microbia develops new methods

...eveloped by Microbia Ltd.'s scientists for rapidly identifying genes required for the production of industrial molecules produced in microbes. This is an advancement in the company's ability to improve the properties// of microbial cells for biomanufacturing pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals. This new technolog...

Cancer gene mystery to be cracked!

...archers from the UK and Netherlands in the hope of identifying the cluster of genes associated with cancer. The research will be led by Dr. Julian Downward from Cancer Research UK’s London Research Institute, along with Dr. René Bernards of the Netherlands Cancer Institute. This research will build on the succes...

Curbing medication errors with new rules

...nes. It would contain a National Drug Code number, identifying information about the drug. This technology would help prevent errors such as administering the wrong drug, the wrong dose, or the wrong method of treatment (for example by injection rather than by mouth). The second rule requires reporting all actua...

Scientists open the book of life

...these sequences can be enough to cause disease. By identifying the correct and healthy sequence of base pairs, researchers hope to be able to find the disease-causing genetic flaws that could lead to treatment. American agencies and universities, led by the National Human Genome Research Institute and the Depa...

Early Detection Of Prostate Cancer

...cetate PET scans to determine their sensitivity in identifying recurrent disease and to compare the sensitivity of these scans to 18F-FDG PET scans. The research involved 46 prostate cancer patients who had been treated by prostatectomy or by radiation, and who all had detectable serum PSA. Every patients were...

Oxygen Usage During Exercise Could Indicate Heart Problems

...lse during exercise is a useful screening tool for identifying heart problems. Research shows that patients with mild hypertension have some reductions in heart function. It was found that their hearts were not operating efficiently during exercise, and this was matched with decreased heart function at rest as ...

Easier Methods Required to Screen Insulin Resistance

...ratio, and insulin concentration can be helpful in identifying overweight and obese people most at risk for insulin resistance. While the tests are not perfect, the researchers believe they should be used by doctors to help determine which individuals would benefit the most from making lifestyle changes that c...

Easier Methods Required to Screen Insulin Resistance

...ratio, and insulin concentration can be helpful in identifying overweight and obese people most at risk for insulin resistance. While the tests are not perfect, the researchers believe they should be used by doctors to help determine which individuals would benefit the most from making lifestyle changes that co...

Bullying – a Common Problem Among Childre

...ver, most studies have relied on self-reports when identifying bullying behavior and adjustment difficulties. Researchers studied a group of 6th grade students, including perspectives not just from the students involved in the bullying incidents, but also from other children and teachers. The research involved...

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