American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Jan. 28, 2009

...es note that the most reliable test for diagnosing cad is angiography, an invasive test in which doctors ... invasive, expensive, time-consuming, and may miss cad in its earliest stages, they say. To develop a...urine samples from a group of 67 patients 41 with cad and 26 without and analyzed the samples for diffe...

Genetic variation may lead to early cardiovascular disease

...ne in this region that confers risk of early-onset cad and identified it as the neuropeptide Y (NPY) gene...and association across a population of early-onset cad patients. The researchers evaluated 1,000 families for cad or evidence of a true heart attack, as part of the...

BIO-key(R) Showcasing Public Safety Solutions for BlackBerry Smartphones at 2008 LEIM Conference

.... One of the key, new end-user features available in this latest release is cad integration, allowing PocketCop users to receive dispatch information direc...from the agency's computer-aided dispatch system and send status updates to cad silently and securely. This scanner-proof automated feature minimizes radio...

Micro-origami: USC folds up micrometer-scale 'voxels' for drug delivery

...r many years, "way back to my days in HP labs, when I was working in Medical and Chemical applications." The USC team designed the chips using MEMSPRO cad software; the actual chip fabrication was done in France. "The experimental work was done on campus," said Will, "since ISI doesn't have a wet lab....

New genetic variants associated with lipid levels, risk for coronary artery disease

...-density lipoprotein (LDL) (bad cholesterol) appear to increase the risk of cad by narrowing or blocking arteries that carry blood to the heart. High level...come Trust Case Control Consortiums recent genome-wide association study of cad involving 15,000 British individuals. They found that all gene variants ass...

Cleveland Clinic leading clinical program to improve early-stage lung cancer detection

...n ongoing program to determine whether chest X-ray cad (computer-aided detection) can improve practical e...ogram is designed to determine whether chest X-ray cad can help identify hard to detect lung cancers at a... stage is so difficult. The evaluation of X-Ray cad is being funded by a grant from the State of Ohio....

People who skip meals: are they better off?

... in at least one artery, or as free of significant cad less than 10 percent narrowing or blockage. As expected, cad was less prevalent in patients who identified thei... preference. Sixty-one percent of LDS members had cad versus 66 percent of others. When we adjusted for...

Ernst Mayr's theory illustrated in genetic epidemiology studies

...hanged, the direction of natural selection changes. "We now know from my cad work and other genetic epidemiology studies that we find these kinds of gen...finement of May's concept of genetic revolution. Templeton said that his cad studies in human founder populations reveal interactions between two import...