By mimicking nature's own sensing mechanisms, bioengineers at UC Santa Barbara and University of Rome Tor Vergata have designed inexpensive medical diagnostic tests that take only a few minutes to perform. Their findings may aid efforts to build point-of-care devices for quick medical diagnosis...
In the current online issue of PLoS ONE, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say they have identified a set of laboratory-based biomarkers that can be useful for understanding brain-based abnormalities in schizophrenia. The measurements, known as...
In the name of science, but with aim of saving lives, preventing injuries and reducing property losses, members of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) spent much of the first two weeks in July setting fire to 20 abandoned townhouses on Governors Island, about a kilometer from the southern...
Easy-to-use, inexpensive tests to diagnose infectious diseases are urgently needed in resource-limited countries. A new report based on an American Academy of Microbiology colloquium, "Bringing the Lab to the Patient: Developing Point-of-Care Diagnostics for Resource Limited Settings," describes...
Patients see potential benefits from direct-to-consumer genetic testing, but are also concerned about how the test results will be used, and generally are unwilling to pay more than $10 or $20 for them, according to focus groups conducted by researchers at Loyola University Chicago Stritch...
Teasing out the exact type or types of dementia someone suffers from is no easy task; neurodegenerative brain diseases share common pathology and often co-occur. Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania are continuing efforts to differentiate diseases...
The Ohio State University uses two different approaches to visualize circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and other unusual circulating cells, with both epithelial and hematopoietic characteristics in metastatic breast cancer (mBC) for their new research. The researchers presented the study results...
Blood testing to determine a link between food and illness is increasingly common, but some tests are not considered diagnostic and can lead to confusion, according to a primer in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Both traditional physicians and holistic medicine practitioners may...
Good news for Kevin Federline: He's stronger than yesterday! Britney Spears' ex-hubby was hospitalized over the weekend after a heart scare during a challenge for Excess Baggage,...
How much scotch should our friend order in to see him through the rest of this Australian summer?
Hey Binga - I just came on to stir Hashish Bhatty-ars up a bit, but I suspect he must have fallen into another coma or he's just run out of witty and delightful things to share with we haughty ones.
Immunicum's patented cancer vaccine is based on over 20 years of research in the field of transplantation immunology and activates the body's own immune system to attack tumor cells. The Nobel Prize in Medicine was recently awarded the discoverer of dendritic cells and their role in...
Women's personal testimonies of cervical smear testing in the UK show that their experiences are often far from positive, says a new study from the University of Leicester published in the international journal Family Practice. The study reveals the stress, anxieties, as well as pain that women...
I had to go pick a friend up from jail who had got arrested a couple of hours earlier, and while I was there waiting they made him do this medical test. A blood test, urine test, mouth swab, and some other stuff. When I asked him he said they had to medically check him and do testing for stds...
When is honey not honey? When you buy it at an American grocery store, apparently—the majority of honey sold in U.S. supermarkets and drugstores has been*processed into nutritional oblivion, according to Food Safety News. In fact, it's been so ultra-filtered it doesn't even meet the U.S. Food...
X-ray images known as CT scans can help confirm gout in patients who are suspected of having the painful condition but receive negative results from traditional tests, a Mayo Clinic study has found. The type of CT scan analyzed, dual-energy computed tomography, is also valuable for diagnosing...
A new study by a University of Iowa researcher suggests that males score better on technical aptitude tests than females because boys and men are simply more interested than girls in technical things, like taking apart a bike. The theory offered by Frank Schmidt, professor of management and...
how good of friends two people are? My friend (guy) and I always go to the school library before our first class starts, and he always grabs a magazine off the shelf for us to read. It's usually People magazine or some celebrity magazine. I want to get a teen magazine that I can bring so we can...
I am a juvenile and on probation. I have drug tests once a month, and I have my first one coming up Tuesday and I was wondering if nicotine would show up. I know it is a probation violation if I am caught in possession of tobacco products, but would nicotine show up in the drug test?
I was told that they no longer mail out coggins or email copies due to them being lost in the mail..Ive never heard of this before, and its a real pain. Anyone else?