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Promising diagnostic test for sleeping sickness (pp 1337, 1358)
Around half a million people a year in sub-Saharan Africa are affected by sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis). The disease is fatal in humans if not treated with chemotherapy; however, adverse effects of drug treatment and an increase in drug resistance underline the importance of... view more (2004-04-21)

When one part in one billion matters
Key speakers will address a broad range of food and agricultural issues.   view more (1999-09-06)

Newly approved ocular safety methods reduce animal testing
Federal regulatory agencies have accepted recommendations of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM) for two methods that can reduce live animal use for ocular safety testing, the committee announced today.   view more (2008-06-24)

New faster screening test for MRSA
A new screening technique for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) cuts by 75% the time taken to identify patients carrying MRSA and could be used to help prevent transmission of the bacteria in hospitals.   view more (2006-02-06)

Annual prostate cancer screening test appears to save lives
Men who have a yearly blood test to examine their prostate specific antigen levels are nearly three times less likely to die from prostate cancer than those who don't have annual screenings.   view more (2005-10-20)

Plan expedites alternatives to animal testing
A new plan to further reduce, refine and replace the use of animals in research and regulatory testing commonly referred to as the 3Rs was unveiled today at a symposium marking the 10-year anniversary of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM).   view more (2008-02-06)

Disrupted genetic regulation causes common disturbance in metabolism of fat
The disease familial combined hyperlipidemia (FCH) is a common cause of disturbed metabolism of fat and early heart attacks. Uppsala University scientists have now developed a pioneering method and can show for the first time what genes are regulated by the gene USF1, which is known to cause the... view more (2008-02-06)

New test improves detection of liver cancer
Cancer of the liver is very difficult to detect, and it is a major cause of death in Asia and Africa, with rising incidence in Western countries as well.   view more (2007-08-09)

Developing better methods of 'blinding' doctors and patients in clinical trials
When trials are carried out to assess the effectiveness of a drug, it is an important to have a control group of patients who are not given the drug.   view more (2006-10-31)

VTT develops one-step drug test
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed an inexpensive one-step drug test method that can instantly detect abuse of medicine, drugs and doping substances. The test instantly and accurately gives the results e.g. from a saliva sample. The test is unique internationally, as it enables... view more (2004-01-29)

Screening children for speech problems is ineffective
Both parental concerns and screening for speech and language problems fail to identify many preschool children needing therapy, finds a study in this week's BMJ. Researchers set out to compare the performance of two methods for identifying speech and language problems in preschool children in a... view more (2002-11-13)

Standardized diagnostic test for learning disabilities
A revolution in the field of diagnostic testing for learning disabilities - Dr. Evelyn Shatil from The Center for Brain Research and Learning Disabilities and Prof. Baruch Nevo from the Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa have developed a standardized test for identifying and... view more (2007-02-23)

Researchers make a significant advance in treating asthma
The findings of this research published on 30th November 2002 in The Lancet suggest that targeting the underlying cause of asthma-rather than treating symptoms of the disorder-could be more effective in reducing severe asthma attacks. Asthma affects 5.1 million people in the UK and leads to an... view more (2002-12-02)

AHRB Awards £1 million for ICT Methods Network
The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) is awarding £1 million to a team at King's College London to support a new initiative which will promote and disseminate the use of ICT in UK Arts and Humanities research.   view more (2004-10-21)

PRESS BRIEFING: Revolutionary Blood Test For Early And Accurate Diagnosis Of TB
When? Thursday 12th August, 9am (breakfast will be provided) What? The launch, by Oxford Immunotec, of the revolutionary T SPOT-TB test for the early and accurate detection and diagnosis of tuberculosis, which has recently received regulatory approval for sale across Europe. A leading panel of... view more (2004-08-05)

Needle-free immunizations
Samir Mitragotri, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, says the myriad shortcomings of injections have led to active research and development of needle-free methods of immunization.   view more (2005-12-02)

More crashworthy cars with opitimization
Optimization is an effective method for enhancing the crashworthiness of cars. In a series of simulations of crash tests at Linköping University in Sweden it was possible to reduce the penetration of passenger space by a third. Every year 47,000 people are killed in automobile accidents in... view more (2004-03-19)

New test to diagnose osteoarthritis early
A newly developed medical imaging technology may provide doctors with a long-awaited test for early diagnosis of osteoarthritis (OA), scientists from New York reported today at the 236th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society.   view more (2008-08-21)

FISH on a chip offers quicker, less costly cancer diagnosis
For the first time an important diagnostic test for cancer has been miniaturized and automated onto a microfluidic chip by a team of University of Alberta researchers in Edmonton, Canada.   view more (2007-06-20)

New "designer" steroid discovered in anonymously provided syringe
Research News from Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 12 May 2004: A previously unknown synthetic "designer" steroid has been identified as tetrahydrogestrinone (THG). Researchers working out of the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory in Los Angeles synthesized and characterized the... view more (2004-05-12)

Research into research can be improved
The methods used to evaluate the quality of research can be far more accurate and far-reaching, according to a new doctoral thesis on bibliometrics from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.   view more (2006-11-20)

Blood test to predict diabetes in children
The researchers found that four out of five patients with juvenile diabetes have the so-called islet antibodies directed against GAD and IA2 in their blood before the condition manifests itself and that these proteins occur exclusively in cases of juvenile diabetes. The test measures the... view more (2000-01-18)

New Test For Bowel Cancer Developed
A new test for bowel cancer has been developed by scientists at the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Cancer Research UK. The research team, led by Dr Nick Coleman at the MRC Cancer Cell Unit in Cambridge, and supported by a Cancer Research UK grant, published the findings in this week's The... view more (2002-05-30)

University of York in mobile phone study
York is to play a crucial part in the major Government investigation into the health effects of mobile phones. Researchers in the University of York`s Department of Electronics will measure radiation from phones in one of a number of projects announced by the Department of Health. With 40 million... view more (2002-02-07)

First diagnostic indicator for Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) identified
Claire Collier went to see her doctor shortly after she started experiencing cramping and other symptoms. This started a series of referrals and seemingly endless stream of tests.   view more (2006-02-23)
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