News tagged with clinical test


Diverse forms of distress have distinct impact in diabetes

(HealthDay)—In primary care patients with type 2 diabetes, depressive symptoms (DS) are predictive of future lifestyle-oriented self-management behaviors, while diabetes-related distress (DRD) predicts ...

Diabetes created Oct 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

School hearing tests: Are they as good as they sound?

Should every primary school pupil in the UK be given a hearing test and what's the most effective way of doing it? These are questions that a team of academics from Nottingham and Exeter will be tackling as part of a new ...

Health created Oct 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novel blood-based protein signature determined for rare, aggressive lung cancer

Researchers have discovered a panel of 13 blood proteins that may be effective biomarkers to detect malignant mesothelioma, according to a study published Oct. 3 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Rachel Ostroff from t ...

Cancer created Oct 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Informatics approach helps doctors, patients make sense of genome data

The cost of sequencing the entire human genome, or exome – the regions of the genome that are translated into proteins that affect cell behavior – has decreased significantly, to the point where the cost of looking at ...

Genetics created Sep 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

10 drugmakers team up to improve testing process

(AP)—Pharmaceutical industry heavyweights are teaming up to address a challenge that's long vexed drugmakers: how to improve the way experimental drugs are tested so they can get approved, and reach patients, faster.

Medications created Sep 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Neuroscience just got faster, cheaper and easier

Richard Gershon has a shiny new toolbox for neuroscientists that will revolutionize their clinical research by making it radically faster, cheaper and more accurate. It also will help researchers recruit children and adults ...

Neuroscience created Aug 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New 'traffic light' test could save lives with earlier diagnosis of liver disease

A new 'traffic light' test devised by Dr Nick Sheron and colleagues at University of Southampton and Southampton General Hospital could be used in primary care to diagnose liver fibrosis and cirrhosis in high risk populations ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Aug 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study discovers genomic variant that increases risk of some brain tumors

People who carry a "G" instead of an "A" at a specific spot in the sequence of their genetic code have roughly a six-fold higher risk of developing certain types of brain tumors, according to a study by researchers at the ...

Genetics created Aug 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study reveals new molecular target for melanoma treatment

A laboratory study led by UNC medical oncologist Stergios Moschos, MD, demonstrates how a new targeted drug, Elesclomol, blocks oxidative phosphorylation, which appears to play essential role in melanoma that has not been ...

Cancer created Aug 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Global study shows brain damage from stroke can be minimised

(Medical Xpress) -- A new study from The University of Queensland shows monitoring the brain of stroke patients using Quantitative EEG (QEEG) studies could inform treatments and therefore, minimising brain damage of stroke ...

Neuroscience created Aug 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study examines effects of growth hormone-releasing hormone on cognitive function

Treatment with growth hormone-releasing hormone appears to be associated with favorable cognitive effects among both adults with mild cognitive impairment and healthy older adults, according to a randomized clinical trial ...

Neuroscience created Aug 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Difficult to diagnose cases of infectious endocarditis solved with SPECT/CT imaging agent

When combined with standard diagnostic tests, functional imaging procedures have been shown to reduce the rate of misdiagnosed cases of infectious endocarditis. According to new research published in the August ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Aug 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clinical trial for OVA1 blood test showing promising results for detecting ovarian cancer

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at Vermillion, a medical diagnostics company have announced that clinical trials for its OVA1® blood test diagnostic tool have shown promising results. The tool, part of Vermillion’s ...

Cancer created Jul 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

HPV test beats pap long-term: study

(HealthDay) -- Testing for HPV, the human papillomavirus linked to cervical cancer, can predict which women will stay cancer-free for a decade or more, a new study shows.

Cancer created Jul 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Benefits of prostate-specific antigen testing remain unclear

(HealthDay) -- It remains unclear whether the benefits of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing outweigh the harms, but evidence suggests that men with a longer life expectancy may benefit from testing, ...

Cancer created Jul 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3 | with audio podcast