http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new test to help physicians diagnose a group of rare cell disorders. The test, or assay, was developed by an expert at Virginia Commonwealth University in the field of mast cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-fda-mastocytosis-diagnosis.html Medical research Tue, 22 May 2012 12:54:10 EST news256910040 (Medical Xpress) -- A new portable tool to detect dengue virus-infected mosquitoes will help reduce the likelihood of human infections around the world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-portable-tool-dengue-infected-mosquitoes.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 21 May 2012 09:30:02 EST news256810468 The use of single positron emission computed tomography (SPECT)/computed tomography (CT) has been reported to change clinical management in a significant number of thyroid cancer patients according to research presented in the May issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Information obtained from these scans not only helps determine the need for radioiodine therapy or alterative options, but also impacts the long-term follow-up strategy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-staging-stratification-thyroid-cancer-spectct.html Cancer Thu, 03 May 2012 15:10:01 EST news255273644 Computed tomography (CT) utilization in pediatric patients with non-traumatic abdominal pain increased in emergency departments each year between 1999 and 2007, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology. The study authors found no corresponding increase in ultrasound use during the same period, despite research supporting it as an important diagnostic tool for assessing pediatric abdominal pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-emergency-room-ct-exams-children.html Other Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:30:51 EST news254457041 Up to 30% of the world's population is infected with Tuberculosis (TB), but in many areas of the world, TB diagnosis still relies on insensitive, poorly standardized, and time-consuming methods. A new diagnostic tool, endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO), may change that. Dr. Thomas Bodmer shows how it's done in the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-tool-tuberculosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:10:06 EST news253188592 Fusion plasma researchers at the University of Warwick have teamed up with Cambridge neuroscientists to apply their expertise developed to study inaccessible fusion plasmas in order to significantly improve the understanding of the data obtained from non-invasive study of the fast dynamics of networks in the human brain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-fusion-plasma-neurologists-noise.html Neuroscience Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:00:01 EST news245414034 An advisory from two leading allergists, Robert Wood of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Scott Sicherer of Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, urges clinicians to use caution when ordering allergy tests and to avoid making a diagnosis based solely on test results. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-memo-pediatricians-allergy-magic-bullets.html Health Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:25:29 EST news244099506 A new device that combines two microimaging technologies can reveal both the detailed anatomy of arterial linings and biological activities that, in coronary arteries, could indicate the risk of heart attacks or the formation of clots in arterial stents. In their report receiving early online release in Nature Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators describe using an intra-arterial catheter combining both optical frequency-domain imaging (OFDI) and near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF) imaging to obtain simultaneous structural and molecular images of internal arterial surfaces in rabbits. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-combined-arterial-imaging-technology-reveals.html Medical research Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:20:01 EST news239807146 Autism and autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) are currently diagnosed primarily through subjective observation of autistic behaviors. However, new research, presented at CHEST 2011, the 77th annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), suggests that a physical abnormality in the airway may be a prominent indicator for autism and autistic spectrum disorders, making it a possible diagnostic marker for this disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-link-autism-airway-abnormality.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:24:32 EST news238649062 (Medical Xpress) -- Ultrasound, the diagnostic tool first developed at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in the 1950s to scan the body, is now being used in its fracture clinic to help heal fractured bones and speed up the recovery time. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-ultrasound-fractures.html Medical research Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:29:42 EST news237731370 Medical imaging experts at Johns Hopkins have reviewed the patient records of 302 men and women who had a much-needed X-ray of the blood vessels near the spinal cord and found that the procedure, often feared for possible complications of stroke and kidney damage, is safe and effective. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-spinal-x-ray-safe.html Neuroscience Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:28:04 EST news235236459 Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine have taken a first step toward developing a diagnostic tool that could eliminate a major hurdle in pain medicine — the dependency on self-reporting to measure the presence or absence of pain. The new tool would use patterns of brain activity to give an objective physiologic assessment of whether someone is in pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-pain-stanford.html Medical research Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:56:55 EST news235155395 Since 2007 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) has become an alternative treatment for elderly patients with severe aortic stenosis at high risk for surgical aortic valve replacement. At present, durability and hemodynamic performance of transcatheter aortic valves remain unclear. Our single center data of the German Heart Center in Munich demonstrates a sustained improvement of hemodynamic performance up to 3 years after CoreValve implantation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-hemodynamic-results-transcatheter-aortic-valve.html Cardiology Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:38:32 EST news233923080 A team led by a Massey University researcher has developed a diagnostic tool that could save the lives of some of the 60 people estimated to die each year in New Zealand from the fungal infection candidemia – and thousands of such patients worldwide. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-quick-candida.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:50:01 EST news231498575 (PhysOrg.com) -- While studying concussions in a high school football team, researchers captured the impact of an 18-year-old player who broke his neck during a head-down tackle in real-time. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-breakthrough-real-time-football-player-captures.html Medical research Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:42:41 EST news230402525 A new research paper sheds light on the way antibodies distinguish between different but closely related 'biomarkers' - proteins which reveal information about the condition of the human body. This new understanding could enable pharmaceutical companies to develop new technologies for quickly diagnosing and treating fatal diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-biomarkers-earlier-diagnosis-fatal-diseases.html Cancer Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:29:03 EST news229919318 Compared to a standard diagnostic procedure, infants with cystic fibrosis who received treatment based on a diagnostic procedure involving obtaining and culturing fluid samples from the lungs did not have a lower prevalence of lung-damaging infection or structural lung injury at 5 years of age, according to a study in the July 13 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-invasive-diagnostic-procedure-children-cystic.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:49:24 EST news229708092 A high-fat diet during pregnancy may program a woman's baby for future diabetes, even if she herself is not obese or diabetic, says a new University of Illinois study published in the Journal of Physiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-high-fat-diet-pregnancy-child-future.html Health Wed, 25 May 2011 16:05:52 EST news225558251 (Medical Xpress) -- A new blood test that will diagnose Alzheimer's disease may soon hit the market, thanks to an innovative study from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). Their findings have characterized a unique biochemical diagnosis, which identifies patients with this devastating disorder. This research, published in the month's issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, has implications for the half-a-million Canadian sufferers and many millions more worldwide. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-blood-alzheimer-procedure-early-stages.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Wed, 04 May 2011 10:24:15 EST news223723414 A new test shows promise for detecting the early stages of a major cause of failure in joint replacement implants, so that patients can be treated and perhaps avoid additional surgery. More than 1.5 million total joint replacement operations are performed worldwide each year. While the success rate is 90 per cent, almost 10 per cent of implants fail and require additional surgery, report appears in the ACS journal Molecular Pharmaceutics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-joint-failure.html Medical research Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:40:02 EST news223119590