- Most Obs. Unaware of 1997 Toxoplasmosis Diagnosis Advisory.
ATLANTA -- The vast majority of U.S. obstetricians are unaware that a 1997 advisory warned that IgM-based tests for toxoplasmosis can have false-positive results. In 1997, the Food and Drug Administration and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists alerted ......
- Eat Freely Before FOBT. (Clinical Capsules).
Dietary restrictions do not reduce the risk of false-positive results of the unrehydrated Hemoccult test, said Dr. Michael Pignone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and associates. They analyzed five randomized trials of more than 10,000 outpatients....
- Eat Freely Before FOBT. (Clinical Capsules).
Dietary restrictions do not reduce the false positive rate associated with the unrehydrated Hemoccult test, said Dr. Michael Pignone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and associates. The investigators performed a metaanalysis of five randomized trials of ......
- Is galactosemia variant Tx overkill? Or necessary? Clinically benign, long-term risks unknown.
STANFORD, CALIF. -- Long-term complications in some patients treated for galactosemia have created controversy around the treatment of infants who have a seemingly benign variant of the disorder. Classic galactosemia can cause speech and language deficits, ataxia, mental retardation, ovarian ......
- Olestra Produces False-Positive Steatorrhea Tests.
PHOENIX, ARIZ. -- The dietary fat substitute Olestra registers false-positive results on conventional assays for fecal fat excretion, the results of a Baylor University study determined. "Physicians need to ask whether patients are eating foods that contain Olestra before they ......
- Helping Women Ages 40-49 Utilize Mammography.
NEW ORLEANS -- Mammography in women ages 40-49.remains controversial, but many patients in this age group feel strongly that they should be screened, Dr. Harold C. Sox said at the Louisiana/Mississippi Chapter meeting of the American College of Physicians-American Society ......
- Geriatric assessments require individualization.
PHILADELPHIA -- People in their 80s are much more varied in their physical condition than people in their 20s, Dr. Moira Fordyce said at a conference sponsored by the American Society on Aging. As a result, a physician must carefully ......
- Unilateral versus bilateral neck exploration in parathyroid surgery: An assessment of 55 cases.
Abstract We retrospectively evaluated the cases of 55 patients who had undergone surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism at our institution to determine whether their parathyroid glands were abnormal on both sides. Thirty-six of these patients had undergone a bilateral neck exploration, ......
- Test for hepatitis A in likely candidates only.
Testing for hepatitis A infection should be reserved for patients who have symptoms consistent with the diagnosis or who have had recent exposure to a person known to be infected with hepatitis A, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ......
- Clinical utility of antinuclear antibodies : titrating the serum first.
In most populations, up to 75 per cent of individuals with positive antinuclear antibody (ANA) tests do not have identifiable rheumatic disease (1). However, ANAs in healthy people are usually present in low concentrations, frequently polyreactive, have low affinity and ......
- Noninvasive test rules out bladder Ca in hematuria.
Paris -- The noninvasive NMP22 BladderChek assay gives primary care physicians a way to screen asymptomatic patients with hematuria during office visits, Dr. H. Barton Grossman said at the annual congress of the European Association of Urology. "At least in ......
- New tests on the horizon to detect latent TB.
KEYSTONE, COLO. -- New tests that detect latent tuberculosis infection by quantifying interferon-y released from sensitized lymphocytes in whole blood may be a big step toward the elimination of TB, Dr. Charles Daley said at a meeting on allergy/clinical immunology, ......
- Additional positive results for telavancin.
Theravance Inc recently announced new positive results from its clinical trials evaluating the safety and efficacy of telavancin. Telavancin is a rapidly bactericidal injectable antibiotic which is indicated for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections caused by ......
- Individualize geriatric patient assessments.
PHILADELPHIA -- People in their 80s are much more varied in their physical condition than people in their 20s, Dr. Moira Fordyce said at a conference sponsored by the American Society on Aging. As a result, a physician must carefully ......
- Validity and reliability testing of the Scoliometer.
The recent widespread use of school screening programs for the early detection of scoliosis has led to the development of various clinical methods to quantify scoliotic deformities. The forward-bend test (FBT) is the most popular clinical assessment tool. It involves ......
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