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A new device being developed by a team of scientists at Stony Brook University will soon be able to detect conditions ranging from diabetes, asthma and kidney problems to lung cancer by analyzing a single breath patients blow into it.
Called the Single Breath Disease Diagnostics Breathalyzer, the instrument is bein... |
7 May 2012
07:32 GMT |
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Researchers from an international collaboration that included the Uppsala University announce the discovery of a new molecule that could be used as a basis for a rapid, inexpensive and precise diagnostic method for autism spectrum disorders.
ASD includes autism, Asperger's syndrome, Heller's syndrome (als... |
26 March 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Some time ago, researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) announced the development of a brain-imaging technique that enabled them to assess the neurological changes produced by cognitive decline. Now, they report that the approach can also predict dementia risks.
In a paper published in the F... |
14 February 2012
05:29 GMT |
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Scientists in the United Kingdom, led by Lancaster University neuroscience professor David Allsop, PhD, say that they have created a new blood test against Parkinson's disease. The approach is able to detect the condition in its earliest stages, before physical symptoms have a chance to develop.
In conditions s... |
1 December 2011
09:55 GMT |
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A team of researchers in the United Kingdom is currently working towards testing a two-step approach to treating glioblastoma, the most common and dangerous form of brain cancer. The new treatment option would make use of both fluorescent markers and specialized drug wafers.
Glioblastoma is a type of malignant brain... |
1 November 2011
18:11 GMT |
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Experts with the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine (WUSM) were recently able to identify a new marker for Alzheimer's disease. The interesting thing about it is that it soars and dips inside the spinal fluid in patterns eerily similar to the body's sleep cycle.
This daily repetition o... |
27 September 2011
09:42 GMT |
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Researchers at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, discovered recently that it may be possible to assess a person chances of developing Alzheimer's disease later on by analyzing data collected by a brain scan.According to neurologists in the research team, a medical imaging technique called proton MR spectroscopy is ... |
25 August 2011
08:07 GMT |
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A group of investigators demonstrated recently that it's possible to detect the development of Alzheimer's disease more than two decades before the first evidence appear in the brain. This can be done by surveying certain biomarkers in people with rare, inherited forms of the neurological disease.The effici... |
20 July 2011
07:55 GMT |
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A collaboration of scientists identified more than 480 molecules in the human bloodstream, whose concentrations change when a person develops lung cancer. The correlation is either positive or negative, but it's there in most cases, experts say. In other words, concentrations of a specific molecule may increase ... |
16 May 2011
10:28 GMT |
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Figuring out how life began on our planet is one of the primary goals in science, but the key to unlocking this mystery may lie on the Moon, researchers in the United Kingdom believe. They say that rocks from the early Earth were ejected to the Moon during an asteroid bombardment.Dubbed the Late Heavy Bombardment, th... |
4 May 2011
05:44 GMT |
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A large portion of people who lose their lives after developing melanoma do so because of metastasis, which is the generalized spread of cancer to all major organs. Yale University investigators have recently found a new biomarker that can predict which melanoma patients are at risk of metastasis.Monitoring melanoma ... |
15 April 2011
09:24 GMT |
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For some people, such as smokers or those who've suffered violent accidents, a lung transplant may be the only chance they have of living. But oftentimes their lives are cut short by a deadly disease, called bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS). Experts have now developed a new defense against it. The debilit... |
30 December 2010
11:00 GMT |
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A new technology could soon revolutionize health care, and highly improve patients' chances of recovery and survival, by diagnosing them in real time, after a simple analysis of the biomarkers (chemical compounds) in their breath.This technology detects changes in electrical resistance or conductance, as gasses ... |
29 December 2010
03:26 GMT |
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After about 25 years of using the same criteria for diagnosing the form of dementia known as Alzheimer's Disease, healthcare experts are beginning to call out for a new set of guidelines.Back in 1984, the US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the Alzheimer's Disease and Rela... |
9 October 2010
04:49 GMT |
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When an individual gets sick, or suffers from clinical, biochemical and pathological conditions, he or she is very likely to experience the action of blood cells in their own veins. That is to say, in case of the body “malfunctioning,” these cellular agents take it upon themselves to change the way genes ... |
12 March 2010
20:01 GMT |
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Researchers have known for a long time that, as soon as cancer cells start developing inside a host, they release certain chemicals that may be used to track them down. Investigators often refer to these biomarkers as the “scent trail” that tumors leave behind, and methods of enabling drugs to follow up o... |
27 January 2010
10:07 GMT |
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A team of experts at the Yale University has recently announced that it has developed a new series of nanosensors, a class of devices that is able to analyze whole blood samples, and detect the presence of cancer biomarkers in them. The latter are chemical agents that tumors and cancer cells produce, and their existe... |
14 December 2009
01:26 GMT |
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In many forms of cancer – one of the fastest-spreading diseases in the world today –, detecting the conditions as early on as possible is the only chance the patient has of ever getting better. In reality, only a small portion of the people suffering from the disease is not identified too late, and doctor... |
28 September 2009
15:51 GMT |
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A recent survey has shown the physicians prescribing depression drugs to their patients usually select between one of two antidepressants, because these are the medicines they prescribe more often, and also the cures they feel most comfortably using. Sadly, this method of attributing medication to people does not tak... |
23 September 2009
04:45 GMT |
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Experts from the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have managed to discover a new biomarker that holds the potential to allow doctors to more accurately identify patients with recurrent glioblastoma (brain tumors), who could potentially respond to anti-vascular endothelial growth facto... |
24 June 2009
06:02 GMT |
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Prostate cancer is a form of the disease affecting the prostate gland in men, and its effects can be very severe, leading even to death. Because the condition is very widespread, like the breast and cervical varieties are in women, researchers have been trying to identify a way of stopping it, or at least slowing dow... |
22 June 2009
18:01 GMT |
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