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New 5-Day 'Morning-After' Pill Tested For U.S. Approval

(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, women who seek emergency contraception within 72 hours of intercourse can receive copper intrauterine devices. Though the devices are very effective at preventing pregnancy, they ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 22, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (13) | comments 73 | with audio podcast report

Toward a urine test for detecting colon cancer

Scientists are reporting an advance toward development of a urine test for detecting colon cancer, the third most common cancer in the United States. Such a test could eventually compliment or even reduce ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New testing method hints at garlic's cancer-fighting potential

Researchers have designed a urine test that can simultaneously measure the extent of a potential carcinogenic process and a marker of garlic consumption in humans.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New test can help predict and diagnose preeclampsia

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a simple urine test to rapidly predict and diagnose preeclampsia, a common, but serious hypertensive complication of pregnancy.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New, inexpensive paper-based diabetes test ideal for developing countries

With epidemics of Type 2 diabetes looming in rural India, China and other areas of the world where poverty limits the availability of health care, scientists are reporting development of an inexpensive and ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Recent Drug Use Masks Cocaine Abusers' Cognitive Impairment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent cocaine use may hide some of the cognitive deficits commonly experienced by individuals addicted to cocaine, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Gene fusion discovery may lead to improved prostate cancer test

A newly discovered gene fusion is highly expressed in a subset of prostate cancers, according to a study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College. The findings, reported in the April 1 issue of Cancer Research, may le ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New urine test could diagnose acute kidney injury

The presence of certain markers in the urine might be a red flag for acute kidney injury (AKI), according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The results sugge ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Nov 11, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Droplets for detecting tumoral DNA

It will perhaps be possible, in the near future, to detect cancer by a simple blood or urine test. In fact, biologists from CNRS, Inserm, Paris Descartes and Strasbourg universities have developed a technique ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Blood glucose self-monitoring: No benefit for non-insulin-dependent patients with type 2 diabetes

Contrary to the widely-held belief, there is no proof that non-insulin-dependent patients with type 2 diabetes benefit from glucose self-monitoring. Moreover, it remains unclear whether an additional benefit is displayed ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0