Modern Radiologists do not face elevated risk of radiation-related mortality: Study Meghna Singhania20 July 2016 9:51 AM ISTRadiologists who graduated from medical school after 1940 do not face an increased risk of dying from radiation-related causes like cancer, according...
New test can predict if coma patient will wake up in a year supriya kashyap kashyap18 July 2016 2:01 PM ISTWashington : Scientists have found a new way to measure the level of awareness in a brain injured person who is in coma, and predict whether they will...
New biomarker for Parkinson's disease found in urine supriya kashyap kashyap7 July 2016 3:12 PM ISTNew York : Researchers have discovered that a protein in urine samples correlates with the presence and severity of Parkinson's disease.The biomarker...
New portable $2 saliva test detects Zika in 40 minutes supriya kashyap kashyap2 July 2016 3:36 PM ISTNew York : Scientists have now developed a new $2 test that has been found in the lab to accurately detect low levels of the virus in saliva.The World...
New blood test can tell 10-year risk for heart disease supriya kashyap kashyap30 Jun 2016 9:10 AM ISTLondon : Scientists have developed a new way to calculate a person's 10-year risk for heart disease by analysing their blood, a method which has...
Health-care providers may not fully understand cancer risk from CT scans: Study supriya kashyap kashyap27 Jun 2016 9:44 AM ISTPhiladelphia : Computed tomography (CT) scans are an invaluable diagnostic tool in modern medicine, but they do come at a price: exposing patients to...
Novel blood test to predict Type 2 diabetes risk in women after delivery supriya kashyap kashyap25 Jun 2016 2:37 PM ISTNew York : An international team of researchers has discovered a simple, accurate new blood test that can predict the chances of Type 2 diabetes in...
Has breast MRI been performed upside down? supriya kashyap kashyap24 Jun 2016 1:48 PM ISTBoston : Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been used as an effective tool for cancer evaluation and has been found to be highly sensitive in...
Predicting Advanced Prostate Cancer Outcomes with NaF-PET/CT supriya kashyap kashyap9 Jun 2016 5:57 PM ISTReston : A recent pilot study reported in the June issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine found that sodium fluoride (Na-F-18) positron emission...
Study on New Blood Test Points to Personalized Depression Treatment supriya kashyap kashyap8 Jun 2016 9:32 AM ISTScientists have developed a blood test that can predict whether people with depression will respond to common antidepressants, a discovery that could...
New test can tell if cancer drug is working on patients savita thakur thakur6 Jun 2016 2:52 PM ISTLONDON: Researchers have found a new test that can detect changes in the levels of metabolites in the blood and help identify whether a cancer drug is...
Women with high thyroid and low HCG more prone to preeclampsia: Study Geeta Sharma Sharma30 May 2016 3:22 PM ISTAn additional blood test for pregnant women accurately predicts which women with high thyroid function are at risk of developing preeclampsia,...
