threshold 1 1

Tag: "threshold" at medical news

A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

...is disease,” Dr. Petersen says. “And we are at the threshold of developing therapies that we hope will eventually impact Alzheimer’s disease.” “We are not slogging through a fog anymore,” says Dr. Younkin, who has helped define the direction that Alzheimer’s research has taken in many of the world’s research ...

Singapore Dengue Cases Return to Epidemic Level

... of 378 cases per week. Dengue cases crossed the threshold for the first time since 2005 earlier in June, when 401 cases were reported in the week of June 10 to 16, the ministry said. Singapore experienced its worst dengue fever outbreak in 2005 when 19 people died from the disease and more than 13,000 wer...

Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected

...organism. He said the university believed that the threshold for reporting worker exposure was a confirmed illness. "We are unequivocally committed to taking all appropriate steps to ensure we are in full compliance with all CDC and any other relevant policies and regulations," he said. The Sunshine Projec...

Pond in High Artic Drying Up Due to Global Warming

...rmer size, or totally gone. "The final ecological threshold for an aquatic ecosystem is loss of water," said b... Prof. John Smol These sites have now crossed that threshold "A key 'tipping point' has now been passed: Arctic ponds that were permanent water bodies for mille...

"Alarming" Malnutrition Among Kenya Refugees: UN Agencies

...n the Kakuma camp -- both well above the emergency threshold of 15 percent. The camps are home to 237,000 refugees from the conflicts in neighbouring Somalia and Sudan, the agencies said. There are no more recent figures, as the area was hit by serious flooding late last year, causing massive destruction o...

Singapore's Dr. Love Brings Good Sex to Indonesia

...itlaced Singaporean neighbours. "The Singaporean threshold of good quality sex may not be the same as the threshold of good quality sex in Indonesia. I think the people here are more relaxed. They understand quality ...

Anticoagulants is Better for Atrial Fibrillation

...at point a person should start to take them. The threshold of benefit that would warrant anticoagulation remains controversial and depends on patient preferences and availability of optimal anticoagulation monitoring, says Aguilar. Contact: Jennifer Beal Tel: +44 (0)1243 770633 Email: jbeal@wiley.co.uk...

Self-harming Among Teens More Common Than Thought

...xposure of repeated NSSI leads to a decreased fear threshold in teens, and therefore, a greater attraction to suicide and death. The answer could lead to significant changes in how we initially treat adolescents who start to exhibit self-harming behaviour, Lloyd-Richardson added. The research is published in...

Dengue Cases in Singapore Crosses Alarming Levels

...es in affluent Singapore has surpassed an epidemic threshold for the first time since 2005, the government said . The National Environment Agency (NEA) and the Health Ministry said in a statement issued late Tuesday that the weekly number of dengue cases reported last week totalled 401, up 37 percent from 2...

Software Improvements in Breast MRI Scans

...firma, Inc. of Kirkland, Wash. The presence of CAE threshold enhancement was sensitive for malignancy in 38 of the 41 malignant lesions examined using the software, according to the study. However, the software did not perform perfectly; it failed to confirm the malignancy of the three lesions. Given the pre...

Cost-effective Treatments for Breast Cancer

...dollars24,185/QALY gained, well below a recognized threshold of Can dollars50,000/QALY gained. Based on three-year follow-up of a recent clinical trial, the addition of trastuzumab to adjuvant chemotherapy treatment has been projected to improve significantly the long-term survival of early HER2-positive bre...

New Adjuvant Breast Cancer Treatments Found Cost-effective

...85 Can dollar/QALY gained, well below a recognized threshold of 50,000 Can dollar /QALY gained. Based on three-year follow-up of a recent clinical trial, the addition of trastuzumab to adjuvant chemotherapy treatment has been projected to improve considerably the long-term survival of early HER2-positive brea...

Cataloging the Structural Variations in Human Genetics

...ight be that if I have an extra copy of gene A, my threshold for disease X may be higher or lower. Geneticists will then be able to test, or genotype, large numbers of individuals who have a particular disease to look for structural variants that they have in common. If a given variant is contributing to a dis...

More Than Four Percent of US Adults Have Some Form of Bipolar Disorder

...hreshold bipolar disorder is as least as common as threshold bipolar disorder," the authors write. "Although mo...resolve uncertainty regarding the most appropriate threshold and boundary distinctions for bipolar disorder. This uncertainty remains a major impediment to advan...

Ulcerative Colitis Disrupts Many Aspects of Daily Life: Survey

...lives, including definitions of what's normal, the threshold for letting the disease disrupt life, and how patients manage their condition. The surveys, titled "UC: NORMAL (New Observations on Remission Management and Lifestyle)" were sponsored by Shire Pharmaceuticals, a specialty biopharmaceutical company wh...

Low Serum Potassium Levels Linked to Increased Death Risk in Heart Patients

...f long-term mortality. "It would appear that the threshold for low potassium, 3.5 mEq/L, needs to be raised for chronic heart failure and that any of these patient with a potassium level less than 4 mEq/L should be considered as having low potassium and thus at increased risk of death," Ahmed said. "These ...

Life After Death: Organ Donation

... promoting the cause of the needy who stand on the threshold of death. Pledge your organs and donate life-TODAY! To download an Organ Donor card visit. http: www.mohanfoundation.org/downloads.asp....

Canadians Urged to Renovate Houses to Check Radon Gas Radiation

...ealth Canada to propose to significantly lower the threshold at which homeowners should take remedial action to reduce the risk. "After careful study, considering all the options, we came to the conclusion that, yes, it is indeed time to lower the guideline," Bliss Tracy, head of radiological impact for Heal...

Virtual Colonoscopy is Most-effective for Screening Colon Cancer

...per life-year gained calculations, CTC with a 6-mm threshold for follow-up cost only $4,361 while OC cost $9,180 per life-year gained. CTC with no polyp size threshold cost $7,138, and FS cost $7,407 per life-year gained. The incremental costs of working-up lesions...

Resistance Already Emerging in First Months of Treatment Despite Viral Load Decline

... population, compared to a normal resistance assay threshold of around 10-15%. The drug regimens varied, but all contained 3TC combined with another nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) plus either a protease inhibitor (PI) or a nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI). Fourteen o...

1 2 3 4 5