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High dopamine transporter levels not correlated with ADHD

...ng these inconsistencies to improve our ability to diagnose and treat ADHD," he said. "Although levels of dopamine transporters alone do not determine whether an individual has ADHD, the association of inattention ratings and transporter levels in both ADHD and normal subjects is consistent with the use of tr...

New finding points way to foiling anthrax's tricks

...now exploring how their discovery could be used to diagnose or treat anthrax. The researchers published their findings Nov. 28 in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Their paper will appear in the Dec. 5 print edition. Many bacteria, including the benign Escherichi...

Vaccine combined with short-term postexposure antibiotics protects monkeys from inhalational anthrax

...r following a bioterrorist attack--is difficult to diagnose early, and despite antibiotic therapy, has a high fatality rate. In addition, because anthrax spores can remain in the body for extended periods, antibiotic treatment is typically recommended for 60 days or more following exposure. As noted by the...

Thermal imaging shatters arousal gender gap myth

...PhD student, Tuuli Kukkonen, said, "This will help diagnose and treat sexual dysfunction in women, such as female sexual arousal disorder, which is poorly understood." Kukkonen will present a paper on the findings Saturday at the Canadian Sex Research Forum conference in Ottawa. The Journal of Sexual Medicine...

Gene discovery opens door to tackling disease

... could also help researchers create blood tests to diagnose breast and prostate cancer. "A breakthrough in the techniques available to diagnose breast and prostate cancer would hopefully allow for earlier detection and, importantly, lead to bet...

Smell of success for nanobiosensors

...mitier says, could lead to medical applications to diagnose organ failure, bacterial infections or diseases such as cancer being made commercially available within a few years, as well as devices that would have a major impact on other sectors. A major challenge of these new diagnostic tools lies in the estab...

Cornell researchers find serious fish virus in Northeast for first time

...make management decisions." Cornell's role is to diagnose and research the disease for the state agency. Bowser and colleagues are trying to develop a rapid diagnostic test, called a PCR (polymerase chain reaction), which would amplify and detect small amounts of viral DNA or RNA in a blood or tissue sample...

Smooth sailing: 'cruise ship virus' tackled by UH, Baylor College of Medicine

...ies in treating Norwalk is that it is very hard to diagnose with traditional methods. "The current tests take a long time," Ruchhoeft said. "If we can build a diagnostic tool that mimics something like the pregnancy test in speed and ease of use, we could create a platform for rapid detection of this vir...

Microscopic passengers to hitch ride on space shuttle

...e that will lead to new ways to treat, prevent and diagnose infectious disease." ...

Key to early diagnosis of autism may be in the placenta

...est marker for autism, possibly helping physicians diagnose the condition at birth, rather than the standard age of two or older. The findings are reported in the June 26 online issue of Biological Psychiatry. Autism is a developmental disorder that has a profound effect on socialization, communication, lea...

Anti-inflammatory drug's potentially deadly side effect found to be rare

... now Clifford believes that developing a method to diagnose PML early in its development may be the best approach to averting future fatalities linked to natalizumab. "It takes two months or more for the drug's effects to stop, but if PML is discovered early and has started in a less-than-critical region of...

Study indicates dramatic rise in antibiotic-resistant community-acquired staph infections

...he study include that healthcare professionals who diagnose skin or soft tissue infections should prescribe drugs that are active against MRSA. As Dr. Blumberg says, "selection of empiric antibiotics should focus on covering MRSA," and doctors should work toward confirming the diagnosis by obtaining appropri...

Blood flow in brain takes a twist, affecting views of Alzheimer's

... neurons sicken and die over a period of years. To diagnose the disease, doctors often order a brain scan. When the test shows lessened blood flow, doctors assume that there must be less of a demand for blood, and so significant numbers of neurons in that brain region must have died. While that still may be t...

Lack of basic research putting patients at risk

...arch provides the information that doctors need to diagnose and treat patients appropriately, writes neurologist Professor Peter Rothwell. But in the field of neurology alone, many examples exist where a lack of basic data is the main barrier for effective treatment in routine practice. For instance, little ...

Wound monitor 'sniffs out' infections

...state of the sensors we will be able to detect and diagnose the presence of an infection almost instantaneously." The device will use new hybrid sensor technology with a mobile laboratory-based multi-technology gas sensor array and pattern recognition system, enabling the rapid analyses of molecules in the a...

Treating populations infected with HIV and latent TB could speed the emergence of drug-resistant TB

...g that large-scale IPT programs should be ready to diagnose and treat individuals with drug-resistant TB as part of the programs." ...

Skin disease common among Hispanic farmworkers in North Carolina, research shows

...etergents. "The results suggest that services to diagnose and treat such diseases should be made readily available," he said. The interview study ?also conducted during the 2004 season ?sought to learn more about workers' beliefs about skin disease. "This information is essential to understanding farmwo...

Human prostate grown from embryonic stem cells

...rmones and PSA; the substance in the blood used to diagnose prostate disease," she said. Professor Gail Risbridger, Director of MIMR's Centre for Urological Research and leader of the research project, said the discovery will have a significant impact on prostate cancer and BPH research. "If we can understa...

Scientists directly view immune cells interacting to avert autoimmunity

...ote. Their long-term aim is to use such imaging to diagnose immune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, and to further develop therapies that act at the level of T cell interactions. The research, published online this week in Nature Immunology, includes online videos of these immune cell interactions ?the firs...

Making medicine 'smarter'

...-year project to give doctors a new tool to better diagnose breast cancer. The aggressive disease claims the lives of more than 40,000 American women each year -- so a diagnostic tool that will allow patients to begin a course of treatment as early as possible is urgently needed. Meyer-Baese hopes to utilize...

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