News tagged with lumbar puncture
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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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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Protein-based biomarkers in blood serum could classify individuals with Alzheimer's disease
An initial analysis suggests that biomarkers in blood serum can be combined with clinical information to accurately classify patients with Alzheimer's disease, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Ne ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 13, 2010 |
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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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