News tagged with noninvasive test

Diagnosing developmental coordination disorder

Children showing difficulty carrying out routine actions, such as getting dressed, playing with particular types of games, drawing, copying from the board in school and even typing at the computer, could be suffering from ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study identifies novel markers as key indicators of future renal failure in diabetes

Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have identified two novel markers that, when elevated in the blood stream, can predict accurately the risk of renal (kidney) failure in patients with Type 1 and Type 2 ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Heart attack risk differs between men and women

Findings on coronary CT angiography (CTA), a noninvasive test to assess the coronary arteries for blockages, show different risk scenarios for men and women, according to a study presented today at the Radiological Society ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Newest screen for newborns will indicate heart problems

About 1 in every 120 babies are born with congenital heart disease (CHD), of which about 25 percent is critical, requiring special care early in life. CHD is responsible for more deaths in the first year of life than any ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Using EEGs to diagnose autism spectrum disorders in infants

A computational physicist and a cognitive neuroscientist at Children's Hospital Boston have come up with the beginnings of a noninvasive test to evaluate an infant's autism risk. It combines the standard electroencephalogram ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Simple ultrasound test improves diagnosis of heart disease

New research shows that doing a simple ultrasound scan of the carotid artery significantly improves the prediction of heart disease, giving doctors a better clue of who is at high risk for a heart attack.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers seek safer cystic fibrosis test

Researchers from The University of Arizona Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine are teaming up to try to invent a novel non-invasive lung test for cystic fibrosis sufferers.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Improved DNA stool test could detect digestive cancers in multiple organs

Mayo Clinic researchers have demonstrated that a noninvasive screening test can detect not only colorectal cancer but also the common cancers above the colon -- including pancreas, stomach, biliary and esophageal cancers. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1