Mathematical modeling predicts response to Herceptin
PHILADELPHIA Cancer researchers are turning to mathematical models to help answer important clinical questions, and a new paper in Cancer Research , a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, illustrates how the technique may answer questions about Herceptin resistance. Sofia...Institute for Aging Research study finds delirium presentation predicts mortality
(Boston, Mass)The way certain patients present in the post-acute hospital setting with delirium, a common, preventable but life-threatening acute confusional state, predicts mortality, according to a study conducted by the Institute for Aging Research of Hebrew SeniorLife. Patients with severe, ...Ovu-Trac(R) Home Test Kit From OvumOptics Predicts Ovulation with 96.2% Accuracy
Ovu-Trac®, an Ovulation Predictor Kit now available in the United States for the first time, has been found to predict ovulation with 96.2% accuracy. This fertility predictor has been used successfully by tens of thousands of women throughout Canada, and has recently passed Food and Drug Adm...Obesity predicts inadequate bowel prep at colonoscopy
Bethesda, MD (June 1, 2009) Obesity is an independent predictor of inadequate bowel preparation at colonoscopy, and the presence of additional risk factors further increases the likelihood of a poorly cleansed colon, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology , the offi...Poor attention in kindergarten predicts lower high school test scores, UC Davis researchers find
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) As thousands of students nationwide prepare to leave high school, a UC Davis study appearing online today in the June issue of the medical journal Pediatrics shows a clear link between attention problems early in school as early as kindergarten and lower high school test...Salmonella's sweet tooth predicts its downfall
For the first time UK scientists have shown what the food poisoning bug Salmonella feeds on to survive as it causes infection: glucose. Their discovery of Salmonella 's weakness for sugar could provide a new way to vaccinate against it. The discovery could also lead to vaccine strains to pr...New universal breast cancer marker predicts recurrence and clinical outcome
(PHILADELPHIA) Reporting online in the American Journal of Pathology , researchers from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have implicated the loss of a stromal protein called caveolin-1 as a major new prognostic factor in patients with breast cancer, predicting early disease recurrence, metas...New Imaging Analysis Predicts Brain Tumor Survival
U-M researchers develop 'parametric response map' to analyze changes in a tumor's blood flow, volume ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As early as one week after beginning treatment for brain tumors, a new imaging analysis method was able to predict which patients would li...Agendia's MammaPrint(R) Predicts Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer
HUNTINGTON BEACH, California and AMSTERDAM, December 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Agendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, today announced MammaPrint(R)'s ability to predict response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer. Dr. Laura van 't Veer, from the Netherlands Cancer Inst...Simple Test Accurately Predicts Risk of Serious Jaundice in Newborns
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A simple test can accurately identify which newborn babies are at risk for developing dangerous levels of jaundice, according to researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. While neonatal jaundice, a yellowing of the skin caused ...DNA Test Predicts Harmful Effects of Cancer Drug
Study Questions FDA Guidelines for Colon Cancer Drug CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Not everyone needs a genetic test before taking the cancer drug irinotecan, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should modify its prescription guidelines to say so, according to rese...Why Do African-Americans Fare Worse With Cancer? Access and Economics Are Only Part of the Story
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... University - studying the relationship between death rates from lung cancer and how much a person smoked - have found that smoking intensity in fact predicts how the disease will progress. Patients who smoked two packs a day had a 58 percent higher risk of their lung cancers returning or spreading comp...IBM and EU Partners Create a Better Way to Fight AIDS Virus
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New imaging research in the June 24 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience helps explain why sleep deprivation affects some people more than others. After staying awake all night, those who are genetically vulnerable to sleep loss showed reduced brain activity, while those who are genetically resi...NOAA forecast predicts large 'dead zone' for Gulf of Mexico this summer
A team of NOAA-supported scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Louisiana State University, and the University of Michigan is forecasting that the "dead zone" off the coast of Louisiana and Texas in the Gulf of Mexico this summer could be one of the largest on record. The de...Computer model predicts brain tumor growth and evolution
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Researchers from Brown University and other institutions have developed a computational computer model of how brain tumors grow and evolve. The model is the product mathematical formulas based on the first principals of physics, such as conservation of mass,...Blood test predicts chance of dementia
Frontal lobe dementia Frontal lobe dementia (Frontotemporal Dementia, FTD) strikes people at an earlier age. After Alzheimer's disease, FTD is the form of dementia that occurs most frequently in patients younger than 65. In FTD, the disease process starts in the frontal lobe where large number...Study predicts when invasive species can travel more readily by air
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Researchers at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research in Molecular Oncology in Lausanne have developed a new test to predict how breast cancer patients respond to chemotherapy, which could help change how treatment is delivered in the future. ...Pregnancy hormone predicts postpartum depression
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Mercury levels in fish are prompting widespread consumption advisories and uncertainty among consumers over which species are safe to eat. Now researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a model that will help scientists and regulators around the country predict which areas are l...Growth factor predicts poor outcome in breast cancer
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A new statistical method that can estimate the origin and time of an aerosolized release of the pathogen causing anthrax, following detection of the first few cases has been developed by researchers from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling at Imperial Coll...New Clinical Study Shows Masimo PVI(TM) Accurately Predicts Fluid Responsiveness in the ICU
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, and AMSTERDAM, February 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Agendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, today announced that a study demonstrating the direct predictive ability of its breast cancer recurrence test, MammaPrint(R), has been published in Breast Cancer Re...Computer predicts anti-cancer molecules
A new computer-based method of analyzing cellular activity has correctly predicted the anti-tumour activity of several molecules. Research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal Molecular Cancer describes 'CoMet' a tool that studies the integrated machinery of the cell and pred...FluForecast(R) Replikin Count(TM) Predicts That the H5N1 Cycle Which Began in 1996 Is Now Over
BOSTON, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Replikins Ltd. announced that the quantitative analysis of Replikin Count(TM) in the virus gene structure predicts that the current H5N1 cycle is over. Sporadic outbreaks may continue, but the rapid epidemic spread and high mortality characteristics are expected...DNA Predicts Reaction to Drug That Fights Alcohol Dependence
MUSC researcher heads study, finds patients with gene variant drink less CHARLESTON, S.C., Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Inherited genetic makeup often plays a role in determining the risk level for certain diseases, including alcoholism. Now new evidence-based research also shows a correlation betwe...TargeTron Gene Knockout System from Sigma-Aldrich
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