News tagged with statistical tests


First prospective trial shows molecular profiling timely for tailoring therapy

A clinical trial has shown that patients, and their physicians, are eager to jump into next-era cancer care—analysis of an individual's tumor to find and target genetic mutations that drive the cancer. Results of the study, ...

Cancer created May 15, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Child development varies and is hard to predict, study finds

On average, children take the first steps on their own at the age of 12 months. Many parents perceive this event as a decisive turning point. However, the timing is really of no consequence. Children who start walking early ...

Pediatrics created Mar 28, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Results of trial to determine how to prevent future strokes encouraging

(Medical Xpress)—The results of a major, multicenter clinical trial to determine the best treatment for younger patients who have strokes that are potentially due to a hole in the upper chambers of the heart has provided ...

Cardiology created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study challenges links between day care and behavioral issues

A new study that looked at more than 75,000 children in day care in Norway found little evidence that the amount of time a child spends in child care leads to an increase in behavioral problems, according to researchers from ...

Pediatrics created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ability to sit and rise from the floor is closely correlated with all-cause mortality risk

A simple screening test of musculo-skeletal fitness has proved remarkably predictive of all-cause mortality in a study of more than 2000 middle-aged and older men and women. The study, performed in Brazil by Dr Claudio Gil ...

Cardiology created Dec 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Risk aversity visible in the brain

Some people live their lives by the motto "no risk - no fun!" and avoid hardly any risks. Others are clearly more cautious and focus primarily on safety when investing and for other business activities. Scientists ...

Neuroscience created Nov 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Deaf children's vocabulary less than hearing children's as words get more difficult, impacts reading comprehension

In general, a deaf or hearing-impaired child knows fewer words than a child who can hear well. Researcher Karien Coppens of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) discovered that the weakness in vocabulary ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pulmonary hypertension combination therapy may lead to greater disease burden

Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) receiving combination therapy with intravenous (IV) PGI2 may suffer from greater disease burden compared with those receiving monotherapy or combination therapy, excluding ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Oct 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Poorer lung health leads to age-related changes in brain function

Keeping the lungs healthy could be an important way to retain thinking functions that relate to problem-solving and processing speed in one's later years, new research suggests.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rhode Island Hospital researcher: Broadening bipolar disorder criteria is a bad idea

A Rhode Island Hospital psychiatrist and researcher explains the negative impact of broadening the diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder in the upcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New findings reported by Microbicide Trials Network researchers at HIV prevention meeting

An HIV prevention trial that pre-dates the shift to antiretroviral (ARV)-based approaches is nonetheless helping to answer some of the most relevant and topical questions the field is facing today. More than three years after ...

HIV & AIDS created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The dark path to antisocial personality disorder

With no lab tests to guide the clinician, psychiatric diagnostics is challenging and controversial. Antisocial personality disorder is defined as "a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0