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Study shows hope for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's

... years, they determined early Alzheimer’s could be diagnosed with a high rate of accuracy evaluating electroenc...regions of the brains of 71 patients, some already diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and some without Alzheimer’s. Their diagnostic accuracy rate was 82 to 85 percent u...

Antibody therapy prevents type 1 diabetes in mice

...n as juvenile diabetes, type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed at a very early age, but in some cases it can be diagnosed in adulthood. In this study, the Pitt researchers treated non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice with an an...

Autism gene identified by researchers at Yale working with a global research consortium

...havioral challenges. Autism Spectrum Disorders are diagnosed in one in 150 children in the United States, affecting four times as many boys as girls. The diagnosis of autism has increased tenfold in the last decade. Phase Two of the Autism Genome Project was also announced to continue the effort to discover...

Mailman School of Public Health researchers report blood DNA can be early predictor of liver cancer

... most hepatocellular or liver carcinomas (HCC) are diagnosed at an advanced and usually fatal stage, the development of screening methods for early detection is critical. HCC is one of the most common and rapidly fatal human malignancies. Worldwide, the almost 500,000 new cases and nearly equivalent number of...

Canadian study shows bilingualism has protective effect in delaying onset of dementia by four years

...ia for probable Alzheimer's; the remaining 52 were diagnosed with other dementias. Patient data included Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores (a measure of general cognitive functioning), years of education and occupation. The MMSE scores were equivalent for the monolingual and bilingual groups at their...

New study may show how to forestall a fatal, virus-caused immune-system meltdown

...sa fever epidemics, as many as 50 percent of those diagnosed with the disease have died from it.) “With these two forms of the virus and this new technology, we were able to compare pathogenic immune response and protective immune response on a broad, global level,?said lead author and UTMB postdoctoral fe...

Common blood test can help distinguish between mononucleosis and tonsillitis

...dividual with a ratio this high would be correctly diagnosed with mononucleosis 90 percent of the time and an i...al with a ratio of .35 or lower would be correctly diagnosed as not having mononucleosis 100 percent of the time. "The specificity and sensitivity of this test ...

Inflammation may play role in metastasis of prostate cancer

...tely indict one of them." One in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and one in 33 will die of metastatic disease. Early tumors confined to the prostate can be treated, but no effective treatments are available for metastatic disease, according to Steven L. Gonias, M.D., Ph.D., professor and cha...

Gene expression test reveals ER and HER-2 status of breast tumors

...sts to recommend treatment for patients with newly diagnosed stage I-III breast cancer. In the Lancet Oncology paper, they employed an Affymetrix microarray to gather estrogen receptor and HER-2 receptor gene expression data from 495 breast cancer samples from seven institutions. The samples included both ...

Cancer researchers add spice to research against rare neuromuscular disease

... weakness in the arms and legs. Patients are often diagnosed in their 30s and 40s, and while most live a normal life span, many patients end up using a wheelchair and have serious health difficulties. Currently there is no way to slow the progression or prevent the disease, which is estimated to affect a few t...

Largest genomic search finds genes that may contribute to autism

...ehavior challenges. Autism Spectrum Disorders are diagnosed in one of 166 children in the United States and affect four times as many boys as girls. "These findings are a piece of the puzzle. As we identify these genes we will be able to screen young children for autism at an early age and begin intervent...

NIH announces phase III clinical trial of creatine for Parkinson's disease

...als. The study will enroll people who have been diagnosed with PD within the past five years and who have been treated for two years or less with levodopa or other drugs that increase the levels of dopamine in the brain. Many of the symptoms of PD result from the loss of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that h...

Army research mission focused on autism

...tional Autism Association faced when her child was diagnosed with autism. Autism is a developmental brain disorder that affects as many as 1 in 150 children as reported by the Centers for Disease Control. Alterations in health and behavior vary widely from mild to severe, leading to their general classificati...

Chemicals in brown algae may protect against skin cancer

...ated 1.3 million cases of non-melanoma skin cancer diagnosed in the United States annually. Researchers applied the BAPs to the skin of hairless mice and fed it to the animals in their diet. In both cases, the substances reduced the number of skin tumors by up to 60 percent and their size by up to 43 perce...

Nanoparticles for delivery of prostate cancer treatment

... men. In 2007 alone, more than 200,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and more than 25,000 men will die of the disease. As the Baby Boomer generation begins to turn 60, increasing numbers of men are in the highest-risk sector for the disease. Over the next decade, the number of new cases is expecte...

Growth hormone to boost athletic performance risks diabetes

...very high blood sugar. He was also dehydrated, and diagnosed with diabetes. He was given intravenous fluids and gradually increasing amounts of insulin over five days, after which he was discharged. His symptoms completely cleared up, and he was no longer diabetic. The use of growth hormone has steadily ...

Cryoablation -- A new treatment option for some kidney tumor patients

...er Society predicting nearly 52,000 people will be diagnosed this year, with nearly 13,000 dying from it, another option for some patients is good news say the researchers. "Additional study is still necessary, but we are confident that percutaneous cryoablation will continue to be a good option for some ...

Brain tissue reveals possible genetic trigger for schizophrenia

...the postmortem brain tissue of adults who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, the researchers found that levels of certain gene-regulating molecules called microRNAs were lower among schizophrenia patients than in persons who were free of psychiatric illness. "In many genetic diseases, such as Huntington...

Temple University Hospital investigates treatment for cervical dysplasia

...an Cancer Society, approximately 500,000 women are diagnosed with high-grade cervical dysplasia each year, with...cal dysplasia," Hernandez explained. For women diagnosed with high-grade cervical dysplasia, the most widely utilized treatment option is surgery. "The most ...

Prion disease treatable if caught early

...e, prion infection in mice has conventionally been diagnosed when motor deficits reflect advanced neurodegeneration. Now the identification of earlier dysfunction helps direct the study of mechanisms of neurotoxicity and therapies to earlier stages of disease, when rescue is still possible. "Eventually it m...

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