blood tests

DUI Attorney Exposes Memo Regarding Blood Draw Testimony

Gabriel Dorman — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:55:47 -0500

An internal memo advising DUI blood draw technicians how to testify in DUI cases to cover up potential holes in the evidence has been exposed by a San Diego DUI lawyer. The DUI blood draw memo specifically tells technicians what to say in order to avoid having to specifically remember the details of a blood draw in a particular DUI case.

New Tuberculosis Blood Test is Useful Tool, if Used with Care

aboey — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:12:17 -0600

Melbourne, Australia —26 February 2009— The newly introduced Interferon-Y release assays (IGRA) is a new group of blood tests that offer many operational advantages over the conventional tuberculin skin tests (TST) -- particularly in the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis (TB).

Stanford blood scanner detects even faint indicators of cancer

harminka — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:02:17 -0600

A team led by Stanford researchers has developed a prototype blood scanner that can find cancer markers in the bloodstream in early stages of the disease, potentially allowing for earlier treatment and dramatically improved chances of survival.

Scientists develop barcode chip for cheap, fast blood tests

harminka — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:35:12 -0600

A new "barcode chip" developed by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) promises to revolutionize diagnostic medical testing. In less than 10 minutes, and using just a pinprick's worth of blood, the chip can measure the concentrations of dozens of proteins, including those that herald the presence of diseases like cancer and heart disease.

New test promises quicker, more accurate evaluation for cystic fibrosis patients

harminka — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:38:46 -0500

Researchers at National Jewish Health have identified a simple gene-based blood test that more accurately and quickly measures cystic fibrosis patients’ response to therapy than current tests.

New blood test for Down syndrome

harminka — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:29:46 -0500

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have developed a new prenatal blood test that accurately detected Down syndrome and two other serious chromosomal defects in a small study of 18 pregnant women. If confirmed in larger trials, they say, the test would offer a safer and faster alternative to invasive prenatal tests such as amniocentesis that pose a small risk of miscarriage.

New test could help catch serious infections in babies

harminka — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:00:46 -0500

A simple blood test may help detect serious bacterial infections (SBIs) like urinary tract infections and blood stream infections in young infants who come to the emergency department (ED) with fevers that have no clear cause.

Spit tests may soon replace many blood tests

harminka — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:23:48 -0500

One day soon patients may spit in a cup, instead of bracing for a needle prick, when being tested for cancer, heart disease or diabetes. A major step in that direction is the cataloguing of the “complete” salivary proteome, a set of proteins in human ductal saliva, identified by a consortium of three research teams, according to an article published today in the Journal of Proteome Research.

Mood markers in blood open informative window into brain functioning and disease

harminka — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:26:41 -0600

Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have isolated biomarkers in the blood that identify mood disorders, a breakthrough that may change the way bipolar illness is diagnosed and treated. The report will be published in the February 26 advance online edition of the journal Molecular Psychiatry.

Blood testing for mood disorders

harminka — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:46 -0600

There are to date no objective clinical laboratory blood tests for mood disorders. The current reliance on patient self-report of symptom severity and on the clinicians’ impression is a rate limiting step in effective treatment and new drug development.

Faster, simpler test for disease biomarkers

harminka — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:40:39 -0600

In an advance toward earlier diagnosis of cancer and other disorders, scientists are reporting development of a potentially fast, simple and inexpensive blood test to detect disease “biomarkers.” The study is scheduled for the Dec. 26 issue of ACS’ Journal of the American Chemical Society, a weekly publication.

New key to detecting deadly aortic aneurysms

harminka — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:53:51 -0500

Yale scientists have discovered a way to use a simple blood test that may accurately detect thoracic aneurysm disease (TAA), which gives little warning and is almost always fatal if untreated.