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Loss Of Brain Tissue Linked To Obesity

...mputed tomography (CT) scan conducted at the final exam found nearly 50 percent of the women had lost brain tissue, mainly in the temporal lobe. Women with this loss of brain tissue had an average BMI of 27, about one- to 1.5-points higher than women without the brain loss. Thus specialists suggest obesi...

Effective Screening Required to Rule out Prostate Cancer

Currently, doctors rely on a digital rectal exam and prostate specific antigen (PSA) when a man und...ternational Prostate Symptom Score, digital rectal exam and two different PSA scores. Researchers say 348 men in the database underwent prostate biopsies. T...

The Use Of MRI For Screening Of Breast Cancer Questioned

...sease. All of the women received a clinical breast exam every six months and annual MRIs and mammograms. T...One of the cancers was detected by clinical breast exam alone, and the other four were detected in-between screenings. There was a downside to the study --...

The Importance Of Skin Cancer Screening

...tients whether they had ever undergone a full body exam to screen for skin cancer or if they would be will...y 32 percent said they regularly underwent such an exam (55 percent among those with previous skin cancers), but 87 percent said they would welcome the scre...

Exercising Good For Stroke Survivors

...ld undergo a complete medical history and physical exam before beginning an exercise program....

Hormones A Predictor Of Heart Problems

...ople without symptoms. However they say that, this exam should be coupled with others for the most effective early detection....

Stress make acne worse

...Also, as students have a lot on their minds during exam time, they should be especially reminded to take their medication during such periods....

Mammograms better than self-exam

...o 39 years of age should receive a clinical breast exam every three years and those who are 40 or older examine their breasts annually. Those with a family history of breast cancer are recommended to have mammograms as early as age 30. Breast ultrasound or breast MRI are also recommended. However the soci...

Infertility may result from bone fragments

...rmal. However when doctors conducted an ultrasound exam they found white evidence of embedded bone fragments. Using the ultrasound images to guide them, the doctors scraped the uterine lining and removed the fragments. Four months later, she became pregnant and went on to deliver a healthy boy. It is not ...

Awareness increase Prostate cancer detection

...rtable as the screening consists of digital rectal exam and a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test. In rectal exam the doctor will insert a gloved, lubricated finger into the rectum to examine the size and character...

A better test than cytology for Urinary Malignancy

...2%. In comparison, the sensitivity of the cytology exam was 29%, and accuracy was 59%. Based on these results, the authors concluded that cytology lacks sensitivity for the diagnosis of upper tract transitional cell carcinoma. The rapid urine fibrinogen/fibrin test appears to have better diagnostic chara...

Indian Nationals with Foreign Medical Degrees can now practice in India

...companied by a demand draft of Rs. 3,500/- (form + exam fee) drawn in favour of National Board of Examinations, New Delhi. The envelopes may be superscribed - "Application for Screening Test for Indian Nationals with Foreign Medical Qualifications". Instructions contained in the current Bulletin for Mar...

Glaucoma & Ocular Hypertension more likely in patients with refractive errors

...sk for glaucoma or ocular hypertension, what their exam frequency should be, and whether they require individualized management plans, instead of just refractive eye exams for glasses or contacts....

Inadequate proof to justify routine prostate screen

...er the PSA test in conjunction with digital rectal exam can reduce deaths from prostate cancer....

Gastrointestinal conditions affect sleep

...uals. Study participants completed a sleep quality exam and underwent esophageal monitoring evaluation for 24 hours in a sleep lab. Researchers evaluated the number of minutes required to fall asleep, the number of arousals from sleep, sleep efficiency, and the proportion of time spent in various stages o...

Hyperflexible joints connected to chronic fatigue

...go on to develop CFS, so simply finding this on an exam need not start a search for CFS." Rowe adds, however, that the link between flexible joints and CFS may provide detailed knowledge into the development of CFS symptoms because a person's degree of joint mobility is apparent in early childhood, long b...

Computer Program can assist to detect Heart Attack

...s, medications, vital signs, results of a physical exam and a measure of the heart's electrical activity called an ECG. Although doctors are able to identify most cases of heart attack without using this technology, the computer program is intended to reduce the percentage of heart attacks that are misdi...

Novel biopsy technique for prostate cancer

...an the traditional examination. In the traditional exam for prostate cancer, the doctor takes six tissue samples from the prostate gland. At Ohio State University, researchers said that it is better to take more samples. Dr.Robert Bahnson and his team, called this the extended sector biopsy. They to...

New device for discerning Osteoarthritis

...d to earlier detection of Osteoarthritis. An X ray exam is the standard way of detecting Osteoarthritis, a painful disease //where the cartilage between the joints wears away. But an X ray cannot image the cartilage direct it only shows that the gap between the bones is getting narrower. Researchers at ...

Mammography aided by computer

...tection (CAD) to help analyse lesions that a first exam cannot diagnose.// The radiologist makes the final decision, but each mammogram is read first by the radiologist and then by the computer. CAD helps by pointing out lesions that might have been overlooked in the initial exam. It's as if the radiolo...

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