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A Novel Technique That Detects "Cancer Genes" From The Breath Of Smokers

...ered a 'crystal ball' that will help them prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. The// Researchers now say they c...nes and their protein products to help predict and diagnose cancer, as well as choose therapy that offers the most potential for a good result. These research...

Nanotechnology Used For Detecting Viruses

...hat previous attempts to use Raman spectroscopy to diagnose viruses failed because the signal produced is inherently weak. But UGA physics professor Yiping Zhao and UGA chemistry professor Richard Dluhy experimented with several different metals and methods and found a way to significantly amplify the signa...

Majority Of Doctors Tend To Ignore Milk Allergy Cases In Babies

...lems. //Four in five GPs are not able to correctly diagnose the disease, wrongly recommending soy-based milk i...y would issue guidelines next year to help doctors diagnose and correctly treat babies suffering from the problem. Any parent who suspects milk allergy in th...

Mental Disorders Strike First Time Moms More

...ter delivery, of primiparous mothers, will help to diagnose mood disorders and to initiate treatment to alleviate symptoms. Mood disorders can be exhausting and usually is followed by severe repercussions to mother and child. MST...

Young Women Beware Of LAM

...is disease is to educate physicians to know how to diagnose LAM and treat it in its earliest stages before the damage to the lung is done and a transplant is needed. A biopsy and a high resolution CT scan, not just an X-ray, are needed to detect LAM." Sue Byrnes - who founded The LAM Foundation, an internat...

Protein ‘Fingerprint’ in Spinal Fluid Could Spot Alzheimer’s Disese

...isease test that patients and doctors could use to diagnose illness and guide treatment is the ultimate goal. But the finding has important implications for current Alzheimer’s research, as well. “You might have a promising treatment for the disease, but how can you know for sure that it’s impacting on the ...

Options Improving for Patients With Acromegaly and Gigantism

...e damage gets worse. Therefore, the earlier we can diagnose and treat the disease, the more effectively we can control the negative implications.” Acromegaly develops when somatotrophs, cells of the pituitary gland that are responsible for producing growth hormone, proliferate and oversecrete the hormone. T...

Surprising Interaction Between Genes, Gender, and Hypertension

...Knowing these genetic mutations may help us better diagnose hypertension and select the appropriate therapy,” said O’Connor, adding that these findings support that the most appropriate therapy might well depend on whether the patient is a man or a woman. Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a serious d...

Bharat Biotech Launches Anti-Rabies Vaccine

...riably fatal. No tests are currently available to diagnose rabies infection in humans before the onset of clinical disease. Four million people are exposed to the rabies virus worldwide every year and 60,000 people fall victim to it. In India, three million people undergo anti-rabies treatment and 30,000 d...

Telemedicine Offers New Possibilities in Health Care

...developed a portable "laboratory" designed to help diagnose the condition as well as monitor it during therapy. The device is contained in a small box that the patient straps around his or her chest before sleeping. Using sensors attached to the body, the device records the patient's breathing, pulse, heart...

Medical Science Miracles – Coming Your Wa

...' Device that trim excess weight, Smart Diapers to diagnose childhood ailments and Microchips implanted in the body for monitoring chronicle illnesses are some of the technologies that will transform medicine in the years ahead. Five Key Technologies: Prof Combs cited that five key technologies would be u...

First Gene Chip Discovered by Cincinnati Researchers

...irst chip in the world that has been customized to diagnose genetic mutations in patients with inherited types...d disorders, created a challenge for physicians to diagnose a specific disease. Therefore, the treatment of affected children was not disease-specific and ai...

Can Defective Babies Be Made To Order?

...appropriate, because the purpose of medicine is to diagnose and treat and hopefully cure disease," he said. Cara Reynolds of Collingswood, N.J., earlier considered embryo screening but now plans to adopt a dwarf baby, is annoyed by the criticism. "You cannot tell me that I cannot have a child who's going ...

For Kids With High BP, Surgery Can Help When Medicines Fail

... his colleagues use advanced imaging techniques to diagnose the condition, and to guide the surgeons who use deft surgical techniques to reconstruct the narrowed blood vessels which are often only a few millimeters wide. Both minimally invasive angiography techniques, and non-invasive MRI and CT imaging, can ...

Surgery, the Best Option for Kids With High Blood Pressure

... his colleagues use advanced imaging techniques to diagnose the condition, and to guide the surgeons who use deft surgical techniques to reconstruct the narrowed blood vessels which are often only a few millimeters wide. Both minimally invasive angiography techniques, and non-invasive MRI and CT imaging, can ...

Now Vedic Mantras to Cure Diseases

...an science of Ayurveda, the Vedas and astrology to diagnose about 100 general and incurable diseases and their treatment. In a two-year period, the scholars would analyse and study the impact of rays of various planets and other celestial bodies through various perspectives, bringing into practice tradition...

New Test Kits for Dengue, Hepatitis Developed

...Kapil Sibal Friday unveiled two test kits that can diagnose dengue and Hepatitis-C diseases in just an hour.// The kits, developed by the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) here, use specially designed synthetic antigens and can accurately detect the diseases. Sibal sai...

Simple Test Detects Genetic Signs of Lung Cancer in a Patient’s Sputu

...an inexpensive and non-invasive gene probe to help diagnose early stage lung cancer in current and former smokers. In the January 15 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, the researchers report that their fledgling test, designed to check whether two genes believed to be tumor suppressors are deleted in cells f...

New Screening Process Helps Better Diagnose Oral Cancers

...ith more modern techniques, we were able to better diagnose and determine the best options for patients with oral cancer," said J.B. Epstein, lead author of the study and Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "This approach to diagnosing oral cancer may lead to easier identification of serious p...

Probing the Effect of Endurance Exercise on Athletes' Hearts

...of arrhythmias in athletes, we found that we could diagnose it unequivocally in only six of the 22 athletes (27%). However, we could assign arrhythmias as definitely or probably originating from the right ventricle in 82% of the patients – an RV origin of the arrhythmia was manifest in 12 (55%) of the 22 and ...

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