News tagged with diagnostic test

Nanomedicine: Quantum dots appear safe in pioneering study on primates

A pioneering study to gauge the toxicity of quantum dots in primates has found the tiny crystals to be safe over a one-year period, a hopeful outcome for doctors and scientists seeking new ways to battle diseases ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 20, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Researchers combat global disease with a cell phone, Google Maps and a lot of ingenuity

(Phys.org) -- In the fight against emerging public health threats, early diagnosis of infectious diseases is crucial. And in poor and remote areas of the globe where conventional medical tools like microscopes and cytometers ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Abbott cuts 700 jobs from device and testing unit

(AP) -- Medical device and drugmaker Abbott Laboratories said Wednesday it will lay off 700 employees as part of ongoing restructuring efforts.

Technology / Business

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cassini testing part of its radio system

Engineers with NASA's Cassini mission are conducting diagnostic testing on a part of the spacecraft's radio system after its signal was not detected on Earth during a tracking pass in late December. The spacecraft ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

UCF nanotechnology may speed up drug testing

Testing the effectiveness of new pharmaceuticals may get faster thanks to a new technique incorporating quantum dots developed at the University of Central Florida.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First detection of pregnancy protein in older people destined for Alzheimer's disease

In an advance toward a much-needed early diagnostic test for Alzheimer's disease (AD), scientists have discovered that older women destined to develop AD have high blood levels of a protein linked to pregnancy ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Orbiter resumes use of camera

(PhysOrg.com) -- Operators of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are resuming use of the mission's highest resolution camera following a second precautionary shutdown in two weeks.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Faster diagnostics through cheap, ultra-portable blood testing

Blood tests are important diagnostic tools. They accurately tease-out vanishingly small concentrations of proteins and other molecules that help give a picture of overall health or signal the presence of specific ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Eradicating dangerous bacteria may cause permanent harm

In the zeal to eliminate dangerous bacteria, it is possible that we are also permanently killing off beneficial bacteria as well, posits Martin Blaser, MD, Frederick H. King Professor of Medicine, professor of Microbiology ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

A better test for a potato pest

A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist has created a new weapon in the war being waged against the potato cyst nematode-a diagnostic test that identifies the type of nematode infesting a grower's field.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study of biomarker development in mice provides a roadmap for a similar approach in humans

Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have demonstrated in mice that the performance of a novel biomarker-development pipeline using targeted mass spectrometry is robust enough to support the use of an analogous ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Key diagnostic deadline draws near for psychiatrists and 'new' DSM conditions

"Where are we going to put the narcissists?" It was a question asked urgently by one of the hundreds of psychiatrists gathered here last week for their professional society's annual meeting. With doctors in the thick of a ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Protein test detects early-stage, asbestos-related pulmonary cancer

Researchers investigating a novel biomarker test believe it is the most accurate yet in detecting proteins secreted from tumors caused by exposure to asbestos. Study results of this aptamer proteomic technology were presented ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new experimental diagnostic test able to quickly distinguish infection from tuberculosis disease

A potential new experimental diagnostic test able to quickly distinguish individuals with active tuberculosis (TB) from those with latent TB infection has been developed. If the preliminary results of the study will be confirmed ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A more definitive test for a common sexually transmitted infection

A study from the microbiology lab at Rhode Island Hospital has found that a new test may be more accurate in identifying a common sexually transmitted infection (STI), Trichamonos vaginalis (TV). The researchers also noted ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Diagnostic test

A diagnostic test is any kind of medical test performed to aid in the diagnosis or detection of disease. For example:

A drug test can be a specific medical test to acertain the presence of a certain drug in the body (for example, in drug addicts).

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