http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Epilepsy affects 50 million people worldwide, but in a third of these cases, medication cannot keep seizures from occurring. One solution is to shoot a short pulse of electricity to the brain to stamp out the seizure just as it begins to erupt. But brain implants designed to do this have run into a stubborn problem: too many false alarms, triggering unneeded treatment. To solve this, Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers have devised new seizure detection software that, in early testing, significantly cuts the number of unneeded pulses of current that an epilepsy patient would receive. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-early-seizures-false-alarms.html Neuroscience Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:50:14 EST news252687001 Computer-aided detection (CAD) technology is ineffective in finding breast tumors, and appears to increase a woman's risk of being called back needlessly for additional testing following mammography, a large UC Davis study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-popular-mammography-tool-effective-invasive.html Cancer Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:14:09 EST news231002040