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Johns Hopkins Begins Aggressive Screening for 'superbugs' in Children

...re unit. The more stringent admission screening methods for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) go well beyond standard hospital practices, where tests are only ordered after symptoms or early signs of infection appear. The new hospital practic...

Blood DNA Predicts Liver Cancer Early

... usually fatal stage, the development of screening methods for early detection is critical. Certain clinical risk factors such as age and hepatitis B and C virus infections are risk factors for the development of HCC in the study. According to the findings, these factors coupled with smoking and alcohol ...

Drinking Age Must Be Raised to Curb Binge Drinking-Voices Warn

.... The article goes on to list other ‘do-able’ methods such as the introduction of special "smart cards" for those aged between 18 and 21 – restricting them to buy no more than three units of alcohol. Gerard also argues that taxes of drinks aimed at young people should also be raised to deter their con...

Physicists Unite To Develop Anthrax Detection Method

...lly explains. Scientists have tried a variety of methods to counteract or neutralize these background vibrations, with only limited success, he notes. But the Texas A&M-Princeton group has developed new techniques for minimizing the background “noise” from extraneous molecules and maximizing the coherent...

Study Shows Hope for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's

...eficial in these locations.” "Modern engineering methods are enabling us to take EEG, an 80-year-old technique for measuring brain activity, and turn it into a cutting-edge tool for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease," Kounios added. The team members hope that eventually they or other researchers will develo...

Campaign Against Obesity Taken to Schools in US

...s of tackling obesity. In the program different methods are used to teach the children. They have a 20-minute lesson, striking props are used to teach the children, lectures are conducted by health conscious speakers and the children are persuaded to exercise to keep fit. They are also taught good eatin...

Lithium Increases Gray Matter in Bipolar Brains

... high-resolution MRI and cortical pattern-matching methods to map gray matter differences in 28 adults with bipolar disorder — 70 percent of whom were lithium-treated — and 28 healthy control subjects. Detailed spatial analyses of gray matter distribution were conducted by measuring local volumes of gray mat...

Scientists Receive Patent for Development of "combination" Proteins to Produce Vaccines for Lyme Disease

...nst both these life cycle stages, Dunn's team used methods of recombinant DNA to create new proteins that com...netic material) used to generate the proteins, the methods used to make the proteins, the methods used to deliver either the proteins or nucleic acids, the use...

NYC Mayor Raises Questions About Male Circumcision as HIV Prevention Method

... Bloomberg also expressed support for seeking new methods to combat the spread of HIV but said he is not convinced that government should be involved in promoting or providing male circumcisions. According to Bloomberg, the number of HIV/AIDS cases in the city is very high, despite education campaigns. "...

Use Filtered Blood for Transfusion: Expert

... leukoreduced blood. They assessed the statistical methods that were used in each study, and found what they believed to be flawed data in some cases. The chief problem, Blumberg's group discovered, was that some studies included hundreds of patients who never received blood transfusions. These patients woul...

Can Science Stop Cancer Before It Starts?

...tion and early detection is that we must use these methods on people who are healthy, many of whom might never get cancer. This means we must develop methods that are affordable, reliable, safe and tolerable. Significantly reducing cancer incidence and sever...

New Standards Could Cut Number of Malnourished Children on Feeding Programs

...ly for this purpose. The research team used both methods and found marked differences between the cut-offs used for defining severe acute malnutrition from the WHO standards and NCHS reference data. Under the z score calculation, children were more likely to be diagnosed as severely malnourished, but un...

Anti-aging Treatment Becoming Popular in US, but Experts Skeptical

...aging related disease and to promote research into methods to retard and optimize the human aging process. A4M is also dedicated to educating physicians, scientists, and members of the public on anti-aging issues. A4M believes that the disabilities associated with normal aging are caused by physiological dys...

PSA Not a Good Predictor of Lethal Prostate Cancer

...nnecessary treatment, researchers want to identify methods to determine which patients will develop lethal prostate cancer. The rate of increase of PSA—a protein produced by the prostate—before prostate cancer treatment has been associated with the patient’s prognosis, which suggests that early measurements ...

'Alarming Rise in Caesarean Births a Cause of Concern'

...births, he called upon hospitals to provide modern methods of pain relief and to counsel expecting mothers against Caesarean Section unless until it was so required by the facts of the case. He stressed that it was an obligation on the part of the doctors concerned to provide all necessary information to ...

Are Computer-aided Mammogram Reports Reliable?

...Therefore, there is a lot of interest in improving methods to detect breast cancer. MRI’s are found to be better in cancer diagnosis, as it could detect 10 times as many cancers compared to mammography or physical examination. But this procedure is very expensive. Yet, the chance of an MRI detecting a tumor...

Younger Siblings of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders Score Low

...e consistency of results obtained across different methods highlights the robustness of these findings." The weaker performance of siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder may represent early signs of the broader autism phenotype, and highlights the importance of closely monitoring these at-risk ...

Cure for Cancer One Step Closer

...research. "There is compelling evidence that new methods for screening, diagnosis and evaluation of cancer can make a significant impact on cancer care in the immediate future," Professor Campbell said. Dr John Lumley, a surgeon from The Wesley Hospital, said that these specimens would be donated by cons...

Promoting Circumcision to Prevent HIV is Misguided and Will Backfire: ICGI

... needs to stay on proven, safe, and cost-effective methods of HIV prevention. Source: EmediawireBR>SRM...

1-visit Screening, Prevention for Cervical Cancer Holds Promise

...esting and requires less infrastructure than other methods of detecting cervical cancer. In this study, the researchers recruited women in the Ghanaian city of Accra. They found that of the 3,665 women screened, 90 percent said they were satisfied with the procedure. Of the 427 women who had abnormalities r...

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