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Schizophrenia detected early

Scientists have developed a computer test which they say has proved 100% precise in early tests. The computer programme is modelled on the human brain,// and has been devised to learn from experience like humans. The system, was developed at the University of British Columbia, by Peter Liddle, a psychiatrist specialising in brain imaging. The artificial brain reviews the brain scan...

Heart problems detected better with a Cardiac MRI

Every year, more than 5 million people go to the Emergency Room(ER) with chest pain which has persisted for 20 to 30 minutes. Most receive an ECG and other standard tests to determine if they are having a heart attack or other serious heart problems. However, ECGs can be completely normal even when a heart attack is taking place. ECGs are also sometimes unable to identify unstable angina,...

Hearing loss can be detected by simple screening

Researchers have studied evidence on hearing loss in older people and have found that 25 to 40 percent of those aged 60 and older are hearing impaired. Doctors while examining older patients must check for hearing loss, for this may be easily remedied. The condition can lead to depression, social isolation and decrease in functional ability. There are several reliable tests to detect hear...

Ankylosing spondylitis may not be detected in children

Childhood ankylosing spondylitis may be more common than thought of and may remain undetected because of this//, says a new study in US. Ankylosing spondylitis or arthritis of the spine is a disease that may affect young children. Children who suffer from pain in their joints and stiffness for a long time must be medically examined for spinal arthritis as timely medical intervention ma...

Oral Cancer Can Be Detected By Saliva Test

Oral Cancer is a common condition in India where beetle and tobacco chewing is a common habit//. It has now been found that certain bacteria’s excessive presence may give an early warning of cancer of the mouth. A report published in the Open Access journal, Journal of Translational Medicine has found that patients suffering from oral cancer (usually called squamous cell carcinoma)...

Breast Cancer in younger women can be detected at an early stage by mammograms

The January issue of the medical journal Cancer reported a study by the researchers of the Health Sciences Center in Denver, which showed that regular mammography screening for women in their 40s leads to diagnosis of breast cancer at an earlier stage. This could facilitate the use of more effective and less radical treatment options.// Sandra Buseman, MD, lead author of the study and...

Bird Flu Strains Detected In Wild Birds Of Mongolia

Scientists from US department of Agriculture had found the strains of bird flu disease in the wild migratory birds in Mongolia. This is for the first time the disease of avian influenza had been detected in any strain of wild birds // that have no contact with the domestic poultry, or waterfowl. The team of researchers from Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) had collected samples from...

Cervical spinal injury patients may have more damage left undetected

Patients who come to the emergency room with cervical spinal injury may have more damage than what is detected. In a study, which is published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, say that CT imaging may be useful to detect such injuries in patients over and above the normal X-rays.// The study indicates that patients with a cervical spinal injury (CSI) may harbor additional spinal da...

Deprivation Can Cause Undetected Heart Problems

Heart problems may arise out of deprivation from being in poverty and poor health. Leaving deprivation out of standard risk assessments for heart disease is potentially denying// life saving preventive treatment to those who need it most, reveals research published ahead of print in the journal Heart. A person’s estimated chances of developing heart disease, and being allocated...

Early Lung cancer detected by studying Cheek Cells

Dr. Bojana Turic and colleagues have found a new cheek cell analysis which detects early lung cancer. The research team has found a simple, inexpensive and early screening method for detecting lung cancer in patients // with high risk for cancer using buccal mucosa or cells scraped from the inner part of the cheek which may contain information that separates patients with lung cancer from...

Baby Brain Disorder Can Be Detected By Eye Movement

Brain disorder in a baby can be detected by his or her eye movement, and a standard test is being developed for the same.// Professor Chris Harris, from the University of Plymouth, uses a computer- controlled chair with electrodes attached to the patient's head to see how "flicks" of the eye are affected by various medical conditions, reports the online edition of BBC News. T...

Novel Strain Detected In The Recent Outbreak Of Bird Flu At Ukraine

A new and deadly strain of bird flu outbreak was detected in Ukraine (Crimea peninsula) and hence domestic birds are killed and put in pits that were dug for the purpose//. Health workers and emergency workers are recruited to get their hands on all the birds including (chickens, ducks and geese) and destroy them thereby the outbreak can be contained. Compensation was given to all village...

Colorectal Cancer Can Be Detected By a Simple Test

The immunochemical faecal occult blood test (FOBT) is a simpler way of identifying individuals who might have colorectal cancer, researchers claim in an article published online in The Lancet Oncology.// Conventionally, guaiac FOBT is used to screen individuals who might be having this cancer, but this new test "could decrease substantially the number of false positives in a screening pro...

Senile Dementia Can Be Detected In Its Early Stages

Senile dementia can be detected years before the symptoms even appear, according to Dutch medical researchers. This can be done by examining the size of two parts of the brain, according to the study. //The two parts are amygdala and the hippocampus. Those with a smaller hippocampus or amygdala are much more likely to suffer from dementia, according to the Archives of General Psychiatry....

Molecular Flaw Detected in Aggressive Breast Cancers

A molecular flaw that lets loose a particularly aggressive from of breast cancer has been discovered by the researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. They suggest that targeting this flaw with selective drugs could help victims of this type of breast cancer. // The team of researchers led by Qunyan Yu, MD, and Peter Sicinski, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber details their finding in the Janu...

Lung Cancer Goes Undetected In The Early Stages

Lung cancer symptoms usually go undetected during the early stages, according to experts. Weight loss, breathlessness and coughing are some the initial symptoms of the condition, according to the // Pneumology and Respiratory Medicine's Professor Dieter Koehler. The other symptoms are the clubbed finger, swollen fingertips, and chest pain. An X-ray, an endoscopic examination of the l...

Medications Detected In Recycled Water In Los Angeles

The water officials detected prescription drugs in the filtered and recycled wastewater at Los Angeles aquifer. This has raised doubts about the dangerous effects this water might have in the future. // Though the amounts were minimal drugs such as antibiotics, antipsychotics, birth-control hormones, Viagra and Valium have been detected. The reason that such drugs end up in the wastewater...

PFCAs Detected in the Artic

Fluorinated polymers have become a great danger in the environment and are thought to cause cancer in man. Their ubiquitous presence is seen in microwave popcorn bags, stain-free carpets, fast-food wrappers, denture cleaners, windshield washer fluid. // Scott Mabury, at the University of Toronto had led a team which has investigated the effect of these chemicals for the past five ye...

Fatal Case of Meningitis Detected In Massachusetts

Galilea Estevez, a bright and friendly 7-year-old at Shaughnessy Elementary School died on Tuesday due to contracting the fatal bacterial meningitis disease//. She had fever and headache and was sent home by the school. But later when her parents tried to wake her up and she did not budge she was taken to the Saints Memorial Medical Center in Lowell. There she was pronounced dead. She i...

Progressive Genetic Diseases Can Be Detected By A Simple Blood Test

Scientists of University of Washington in Seattle have devised a simple blood test, which can be used to detect rare disorders of progressive genetic diseases known // as 'lysosomal storage disorders', according to online edition of Nature. These disorders can cause symptoms ranging from gross enlargement of the liver to mental retardation. Some 40-50 of the disorders are known, and in...

Undetected Cases Of Diabetes Boom In The US

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today that more than one-third of adults having diabetes// are not aware of it. The rate diagnosed diabetes in adults aged 20 and older has increased from 5.1 percent to 6.5 percent in the period between 1988 to 1994 and 1999 to 2002. However, the percentage of adults w...

Four Jaundice Cases Detected In Bathinda

Four cases of jaundice were detected here today even as health officials collected blood samples from 20 people suspected to be suffering from the disease. // Officials said a team of doctors that visited Baldev Nagar found four persons including two children were suffering from jaundice. The deputy commissioner of Ambala and the civil surgeon visited the area as doctors co...

Two-year old Girl With Polio Detected in UP

One more polio case has surfaced in Uttar Pradesh with the World Health Organisation's (WHO) surveillance team detecting a two-year-old girl affected with polio virus in the district //. WHO's Survillence Medical Officer Salman Khan today said that a two-year-old girl from Shahpur Tahar Khera village of the district has been detected with polio. "She has been detected with...

Bird Flu Detected In Remote Nigerian State

Health officials announced that the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected in remote Taraba state in eastern Nigeria, which is the first African// country to be hit by bird flu. Although no human cases have been reported, experts fear that several cases have gone unnoticed. Currently 14 of Nigeria's 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory have bird flu in poultry. "We ha...

Eightyseven Hepatitis cases detected in Moga

A total of 87 Hepatitis cases have been detected in Moga out of which 52 were male and 35 female, the district health department said today//. The infected people were found during a survey conducted by the a team of 13 doctors, Civil Surgeon Dr H P S Sandhu told reporters here. The survey teams collected information about 69 cases from a private doctor and the local clini...

'Pig Fever' Detected in Kerala

Kerala's Animal Husbandry Minister C. Divakaran Wednesday confirmed that pig fever had been diagnosed and was the cause of death of pigs at a private farminwayanad//. This is believed to be the first reported case of the disease in the country. "Pig fever was ascribed to the death of pigs by the Indian Veterinary Research Institute in Uttar Pradesh after samples were send t...

Painless Control Of Blood Sugar Levels When Detected Early

Dr Ewan Pearson, of Dundee University's Medical School and his team has carried out research on a specific genetic type of diabetes.// Neonatal diabetes occurs only in one in a million births. “About 1,500 to 2,000 Americans with neonatal diabetes rely on daily insulin injections to survive” says Dr. Pearson. According to him neonatal diabetes, when detected at an early age (before 6 mo...

Anthrax may be detected in minutes

Swiss scientists have discovered a test that they say can detect the deadly anthrax in minutes. Diagnostic tests for the disease already exist, but they are expensive// and time-consuming. Time is critical because anthrax infection is fatal unless treated within 24 hours. Professor Peter Seeberger and his team at Bern University first set out to create antibodies against the anthrax s...

More Kidney Cancer Is Detected and Treated Early, Yet Death Rate Rises

The number of cases of kidney cancer has been rising over the last two decades, and new research from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center shows// that this increase is driven largely by the detection of small, presumably curable, kidney masses. But even though the rising incidence has been paralleled by greater use of surgery for kidney cancer, this trend has not led to...

New polio cases detected in Bihar

The battle against polio is far from over in Bihar with the detection of new cases in those districts that are not covered in the June-July immunisation drive this year//. Eight districts of Magadh and Patna divisions were not covered under the drive.Two new polio cases were detected in Jehanand, while one each came up in Arwal and Nawada districts. Patna district has also four new cas...

Osteoporosis to Be Detected During Routine Dental X-rays

Researchers have created a unique way of identifying patients at risk of osteoporosis by using ordinary dental x-rays. // Professor Paul F. van der Stelt and his team at the Academic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam developed the largely automated approach during a three-year, EU-funded collaboration with the Universities of Manchester, Athens, Leuven, and Malm?. Osteoporosis...

Climate Change Signal Detected in the Indian Ocean

'From ocean measurements and by analysing climate simulations we can see there are changes in features of the ocean that cannot be explained by natural variability',said CSIRO oceanographer Dr Gael Alory. 'These oceanic changes are almost certainly linked to changes in the heat structure of the atmosphere and have led to a rise in water temperatures in the sub-tropical Indian Ocean...

Inflammation in Amniotic Fluid Detected

Researchers have found that a score that measures the proteomic profile of amniotic fluid may predict inflammation before delivery. // Researchers from Yale University, led by Catalin Buhimschi, have previously identified a set of four protein markers that were closely associated with inflammation in the amniotic fluid, and developed a score based on these proteins?€the "Mass Restricte...

New Mad-Cow Case Detected in Canada Bull

Canada has confirmed its tenth case of mad cow disease after a "mature" bull from the province of Alberta has been tested positive – Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced Wednesday. // The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said that the infected animal’s carcass is in their control and also confirmed that no part of it had entered the human food or animal feed systems. However,...

Mental Health Conditions Could Be Detected With Blood Tests

A University of Iowa study has revealed that it may be possible to detect certain mental health conditions like panic disorder with blood tests//. This was revealed after scientists studied the genetic information in immature white blood cells. "The ability to test for panic disorder is a quantum leap in psychiatry," said the study's lead author, Robert Philibert, M.D., Ph.D., professo...

Seven Polio Cases Detected in Bihar

Patna: The battle against polio is far from over in Bihar with seven new cases detected this year - an alarming jump in the infectious disease// in a state that has vowed to eradicate it by 2007-end. 'It is sad to admit that seven new polio cases surfaced in the state till the first week of February, despite the immunisation drive,' officials in the health department said....

Learning Disabilities If Undetected Early Proves Costly Later

A study conducted by the Learning Disabilities Association of Canada states that learning disabilities diagnosed late leads to long lasting harmful psychological// effect on people. Depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts and unemployment are some of the problems faced by people with such disabilities. Philippa Slater, B.C. representative of the learning disabilities association confirms...

Chances of Survival for Melanoma is High When Detected by Dermatologists

A new report says that melanoma when diagnosed by a dermatologist has a higher survival rate than by a non-dermatologist. The reason is that a specialist will be able to detect// the tumor in its early stages which can be removed thereby increasing the chance of survival. Individuals whose melanoma is diagnosed by a dermatologist may be more likely to have early-stage cancer and to su...

PFOA and PFOS Detected in Newborns

An analysis of nearly 300 umbilical cord blood samples led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows that //newborn babies are exposed to perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) while in the womb. PFOS and PFOA are polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFCs)—ubiquitous man-made chemicals used in a variety of consumer products, including as a p...

Sleepwalking to sex during sleep, a new disorder detected

From insomnia to sexomnia, is it a small step? Sleeplessness to sleepwalking to sex during sleep . It is possible, says, Carlos Schenck, a psychiatrist at the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center and the Hennepin County Medical Center, who has been studying bizarre sleep-related disorders for the past 20 years. That includes people who eat while asleep and even dr...