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Michigan researchers highlight new concussion diagnosis tool
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2010-02-15 22:13
This falls under the category of "It's so simple I can't believe nobody thought about it before!"
We know that concussion reduces reaction time, but up until now, you needed fancy equipment to quantify this--no good for assessments on the athletic field.
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Drug companies fire second shot in hypertension treatment war
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2008-12-09 09:23- ACE
- ACE inhibitors
- Aging-associated diseases
- alpha
- Amlodipine
- Amlodipine/benazepril
- Anatomy
- Benazepril
- Calcium channel blockers
- Cardiology
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Diuretic
- Finland
- Hypertension
- hypertension therapy
- hypertension treatment
- Kenneth Jamerson
- Medicine
- Michigan
- New England Journal
- Other
- Person Career
- the New England Journal of Medicine
- therapy for high blood pressure
- treatment of high blood pressure
- United States
- University of Michigan
- University of Michigan
As many as 73 million Americans have high blood pressure problem. While current guidelines recommend initial hypertension therapy with a diuretic an international blood pressure study has illustrated a non-diuretic drug combination as more successful than diuretic-based therapy in preventing heart-related events like heart attacks and strokes.
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Researchers claim 3D breast ultrasound detects cancer with 100% accuracy
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2008-10-23 06:44- 3-D
- Acoustics
- Ann Arbor
- Assistant Professor
- author
- Biopsy
- Breast
- Breast cancer
- Cancer
- Gerald L. LeCarpentier
- Inflammatory breast cancer
- LeCarpentier Ph
- Medical physics
- Medical ultrasonography
- Medical ultrasound
- Medicine
- Michigan
- Other
- Pathology
- Person Career
- Ultrasound
- ultrasound
- University of Michigan
- University of Michigan
- Vitamin D
Malignant breast masses often show evidence of increased blood flow compared to normal tissue or benign masses. Using 3-D power Doppler ultrasound radiologists are able to identify vessels with higher flow speeds which likely designate cancer. Lead author Dr. LeCarpentier Ph.D. assistant professor in the Department of Radiology at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and colleagues took out a study on 78 women between the ages of 26 and 70 who where scheduled for biopsy of a suspicious breast mass.
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