Mayo Clinic study using structural MRI may help accurately diagnose dementia patients
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A new Mayo Clinic study may help physicians differentially diagnose three common neurodegenerative disorders in the future. The study will be presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease on July 11 in Vienna. In this study, Mayo...Mayo Clinic Study Using Structural MRI May Help Accurately Diagnose Dementia Patients
ROCHESTER, Minn., July 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new Mayo Clinic study may help physicians differentially diagnose three common neurodegenerative disorders in the future. The study will be presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease on July 11 in ...MRI Accurately Depicts Deep Endometriosis
Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), radiologists may be able to diagnose deep endometriosis and accurately locate lesions prior to surgery, according to a new study published in the online edition of Radiology. Oak Brook, Ill. (Vocus) July 7, 2009 -- Using magnetic ...MRI accurately depicts deep endometriosis
OAK BROOK, Ill. (July 7, 2009) Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), radiologists may be able to diagnose deep endometriosis and accurately locate lesions prior to surgery, according to a new study published in the online edition of Radiology . "Pelvic MRI at 3 Tesla is a noninvasive techn...New MR sequence helps radiologists more accurately evaluate abnormalities of the uterus and ovaries
A new MR imaging sequence, T2-weighted BLADE, used to image the female pelvis improves image quality and helps radiologists make a more accurate diagnosis, according to a study performed at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. A total of 26 patients were imaged usi...Non-invasive test accurately identifies gynecologic malignancies
Diffusion weighted MR can accurately identify benign from malignant pelvic lymph nodes in patients with gynecologic malignancy, according to a study performed at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. Diffusion weighted imaging is a noninvasive test that uses an MRI sequence sensitized to t...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 .../C O R R E C T I O N -- Agendia B.V./
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Measuring kidney function in children can be expensive, time-consuming for clinicians, and tedious for children, who may be exposed to radioactivity and subjected to a large number of blood draws. A new calculation eliminates many of these obstacles, relying instead on various blood tests that can...Scripps scientists develop new tests that identify lethal prion strains quickly and accurately
One of the new in vitro tests, called the Standard Scrapie Cell Assay, measures prion infectivity levels in a highly accurate and extremely rapid way, producing results in less than two weeks. The second test, called the Cell Panel Assay, allows researchers to quickly distinguish between several p...'GreeneChip' -- New diagnostic tool that rapidly and accurately identifies multiple pathogens
Researchers in the Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and their colleagues in the WHO Global Laboratory Network have developed a new tool for pathogen surveillance and discovery—the GreeneChip System. The GreeneChip is the first tool to prov...Mary had a lot of lambs: Researchers identify way to accelerate sheep breeding
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