Colon capsule endoscopy diagnoses 64 percent of total polyps detected by conventional colonoscopy
This release is available in Spanish . Capsule endoscopy for exploring the colon in a minimally invasive manner diagnoses 64% of all lesions located by means of conventional colonoscopy. According to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine the specialised medical journal ...Chronic diarrhea unresponsive to conventional medication: Are you taking lansoprazole?
Lansoprazole is a proton pump inhibitor which powerfully suppresses gastric acid production and is widely prescribed for chronic use in gastroesophageal reflux disease. Lansoprazole uncommonly causes chronic watery diarrhea unresponsive to conventional medication as a symptom of collagenous coliti...'60s generation is heading for conventional old age
Britain's post-war baby boomers, associated throughout their lives with social change, are failing to break new ground in their approach to growing old. Academic research supported by the Economic and Social Research Council and Arts and Humanities Research Council shows that most members of th...Cone-Beam CT faster, potentially more accurate than conventional mammography
Cone-beam breast CT provides exceptional tissue contrast and can potentially reduce examination time with comparable radiation dose to conventional 2D mammography, according to a new study by a team of researchers from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Cone-beam b...Study Challenges Conventional Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury
Neuroscientists are now looking at lactate with a much more positive eye, considering it a possible replacement “fuel” for the brain in the immediate //hours after a traumatic brain injury instead of glucose, the current standard. If they are right, it could change how emergency room physicians and...No Health Benefits from Organic Milk Compared to Conventional Milk
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) in Britain has concluded on Tuesday that although organic milk does contain higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids compared to conventional milk//, it did not provide any further significant health benefits. This conclusion was reached following assessment of the e...Pediatric Study Finds 21st Century Non-Contact Thermometer as Accurate as Conventional Thermometers
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MADISON, WI, April 6, 2009 -- Which is a better strategy, specializing in one crop or diversified cropping? Is conventional cropping more profitable than organic farming? Is it less risky? To answer these questions, the University of Wisconsin's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Mich...Can organic cropping systems be as profitable as conventional systems?
MADISON, WI, April 6, 2009 -- Which is a better strategy, specializing in one crop or diversified cropping? Is conventional cropping more profitable than organic farming? Is it less risky? To answer these questions, the University of Wisconsin's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Mich...Research challenges conventional notions about salmon survival
In a paper published in the open access journal PLoS Biology, researchers used new tagging and tracking technologies to show the surprising result that the survival of juvenile salmon in two major west coast rivers was similar, despite the presence of an extensive network of dams in one river s...New research may overturn conventional wisdom on drug-resistant tuberculosis
A newly released study suggests that the majority of cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) among patients undergoing treatment for the disease may be due to new infections, not acquired resistance. If confirmed in future studies the research, in the March 15 issue of The Journal of Infectious D...AIDS study challenges conventional treatment guidelines for HIV patients
A newly published study by investigators at the Center for AIDS Research at Case Medical Center, led by Benigno Rodríguez, MD, along with a nationwide team of AIDS/HIV experts, strongly challenges conventional thinking about the role of measurements of the amount of HIV particles in the blood as a ...Robot assisted surgery more accurate than conventional surgery
A new study from Imperial College London shows that robot assisted knee surgery is significantly more accurate than conventional surgery. The team of surgeons tested whether Acrobot, a robotic assistant, could improve surgical outcomes for patients undergoing partial knee replacement. Acrobot wor...NIST team proves bridge from conventional to molecular electronics possible
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have set the stage for building the evolutionary link between the microelectronics of today built from semiconductor compounds and future generations of devices made largely from complex organic molecules. In an upcoming pape...Viral Genetics Creates Subsidiary to Develop Cancer Therapy
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