News tagged with spinal taps
Advance toward a breath test to diagnose multiple sclerosis
Scientists are reporting the development and successful tests in humans of a sensor array that can diagnose multiple sclerosis (MS) from exhaled breath, an advance that they describe as a landmark in the long ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Caffeine can ease a spinal tap headache
People who suffer headaches after a spinal tap might have a relatively simple way to ease the painful throb: a caffeine tablet.
Aug 10, 2011 |
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New biomarker may help with early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
A new biomarker may help identify which people with mild memory deficits will go on to develop Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study published in the June 22, 2011, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 22, 2011 |
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New doctors, teaching physicians disagree about essential medical procedures to learn
Physicians teaching at medical schools and doctors who have just completed their first year out of medical school disagree about which procedures are necessary to learn before graduating, according to a new survey done by ...
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Spinal taps carry higher risks for infants and elderly, study shows
An X-ray-guided spinal tap procedure fails more than half of the time in young infants and should be used sparingly, if at all, for those patients, according to a new study done by researchers at Wake Forest University School ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 18, 2009 |
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