SUNDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) — Perhaps five years from now, you might actually hear your doctor casually say, “While we’re at it, let’s do a blood test to see if your genetic makeup puts you at high risk of having a heart attack.”
So says Dr. Sekar Kathiresan, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of preventive cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is the leader of a group that has identified three Read the rest of this entry »
Try, try again.
is testing a new model of health care that many policy experts say holds great promise but has yet to prove itself.
An earlier trial of the model by UnitedHealth, in Florida, never got off the ground because doctors refused to participate. This time, however, the insurer is teaming up with seven doctors’ groups to make another attempt, in Arizona, at the prodding of one of the state’s big employers,
UnitedHealth will Read the rest of this entry »
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A sophisticated medical test that checks for dozens of diseases at the same time can be made from little more than paper and double-sided tape, bringing the cost within reach for the developing world.
The devices, known as microfluidics chips, operate much like a home pregnancy test, in which liquid creeps up a cellulose strip toward a color-changing line. But unlike the pregnancy test, these new chips can split a single stream of liquid into dozens Read the rest of this entry »
Computer giant Nintendo will launch its latest fitness game next month, with the current record held by a Japanese dog.
Walk With Me has pocket walking meters to measure how active players are and allows them to set daily targets.
The game, for the portable console Nintendo DS, also lets competitors compare their performance internationally.
Currently, the record is held by a dog in Japan.
The European launch on February 20 follows the success Read the rest of this entry »
The all important New Zealand tour is round the corner and the question that looms large is: who gets the berth in the team for the upcoming cricket series and who gets ignored? Some of the key players’ selection is still uncertain due to fitness issues. However, there are strong speculations that Munaf Patel and Rudra Pratap Singh may finish off their race to the team successfully. They will undergo fitness test at National Cricket Academy Read the rest of this entry »
He said it made little sense to compare the diagnoses of ADD among the general population to those among young male professional athletes with access to high-quality medical care.
“That’s just stupid,” Manfred said.
For the first time — and in implementing one of the recommendations in last year’s Mitchell Report — baseball issued a public accounting of how many positive tests had been recorded last year and how many exemptions had been issued. Read the rest of this entry »
Try, try again.
is testing a new model of health care that many policy experts say holds great promise but has yet to prove itself.
An earlier trial of the model by UnitedHealth, in Florida, never got off the ground because doctors refused to participate. This time, however, the insurer is teaming up with seven doctors’ groups to make another attempt, in Arizona, at the prodding of one of the state’s big employers,
UnitedHealth will Read the rest of this entry »
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 (Bernama) — The Health Ministry is setting up more laboratories, which will be equipped with modern and sophisticated equipment, to carry out test for melamine in food products, its Minister, Datuk Liow Tiong Lai said.
He said currently, there were only four laboratories for the purpose and that efforts would be made to set up 10 more.
“We want to increase the number of laboratories to 14,” he told reporters after the MCA Read the rest of this entry »
TUESDAY, Feb. 17 (HealthDay News) — A genetic test may better help survivors of colorectal cancer determine their risk of recurrence, a new study finds.
A report in the Feb. 18 issue of the
finds that guanylyl cyclase C (GUCY2C) — an intestinal tumor-suppressing receptor in the lymph nodes — may better reveal the chance of metastatic colorectal cancer.
According to researchers from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, doctors often Read the rest of this entry »