News tagged with cell counts
New microscope uses rainbow of light to image the flow of individual blood cells
Blood tests convey vital medical information, but the sight of a needle often causes anxiety and results take time. A new device developed by a team of researchers in Israel, however, can reveal much the same ...
May 21, 2012 |
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Handheld device for doing blood tests moves closer to medical use
Scientists are reporting a key advance in efforts to develop a handheld device that could revolutionize the complete blood cell count (CBC), one of the most frequently performed blood tests used to diagnose ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Feb 01, 2012 |
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They're mastering manufacturing
For millions of HIV-positive people in the developing world, accurate measurement of their medical condition is invaluable. So in recent years, Daktari Diagnostics, a Cambridge-based startup, has been developing ...
Mar 01, 2012 |
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New models predict short-term survival of HIV patients starting antiretroviral therapy in sub-saharan Africa
The survival of HIV patients in sub-Saharan Africa in the first year of antiretroviral therapy (ART) can now be predicted using either of two new risk models, developed by Matthias Egger from the University of Bern in Switzerland ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 15, 2010 |
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Treating HIV earlier to decrease the risk of death
Begin treatment as early as possible: this general common sense rule seems to apply to most diseases except HIV-AIDS, which is only treated once a certain number of immune cells called "CD4+" cells have disappeared. The results ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Most babies with uncomplicated febrile seizures can avoid spinal tap
When babies develop a fever high enough or abrupt enough to cause a seizure, frightened parents often rush them to the emergency room, where their workup frequently includes a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) to rule out bacterial ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 06, 2009 |
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New HIV treatment guidelines indicate importance of early, individualized antiretroviral treatment
Advances in antiretroviral treatment (ART) have shown that the progressive immune system destruction caused by HIV infection, including AIDS, can be prevented, indicating the importance of beginning ART early, when a person ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 18, 2010 |
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IL-2 immunotherapy fails to benefit HIV-infected individuals already taking antiretrovirals
Providing a synthetic form of the immune system protein interleukin-2 (IL-2) to HIV-infected individuals already taking combination antiretroviral therapy boosts their numbers of CD4+ T cells, the key white blood cells destroyed ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 10, 2009 |
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