News tagged with mathematical tool


New search engine finds rare diagnoses

Doctors are trained to think "common disease" when they meet patients in their practices, and as they rarely or never meet a rare disease, it often takes many years to reach the right diagnosis. A new search tool called FindZebra ...

Other created May 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Network analysis sheds new light on the abnormal brain connectivity responsible for a common genetic cause of autism

Combining hospital MRIs with the mathematical tool known as network analysis, a group of researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley have mapped the three-dimensional global connections within the brains ...

Neuroscience created Feb 28, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mathematical model helps design efficient multi-drug therapies

For years, doctors treating those with HIV have recognized a relationship between how faithfully patients take the drugs they prescribe, and how likely the virus is to develop drug resistance. More recently, research has ...

Medical research created Sep 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers call for new tactics in drug abuse fight

(Medical Xpress) -- Current U.S. drug policy is proving insufficient in shrinking the damage caused by drug abuse, but promising alternative approaches could lead to improved results, according to an article ...

Medications created Aug 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Taking a predictive approach to identifying adverse drug reactions

In a move aimed at bolstering current systems for assessing and monitoring drug safety, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have created a new method that combines multiple forms of widely available data to predict ...

Medications created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study finds HIV Achilles Heel

(Medical Xpress) -- A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows how scientists have used a mathematical tool to possibly identify an Achilles heel in HIV which may le ...

HIV & AIDS created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report