Tag Archives: diagnosis

posted on 01/11/2023 06:00 (credit: KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH) The occurrence of characteristic Alzheimer’s symptoms, such as poor memory and aggressiveness, usually indicates that the patient is no longer in an early stage of the disease. Creating approaches that help to discover this neurodegenerative process at an early stage is, in the …

A simple urine test may, in the future, be able to diagnose patients with Alzheimer’s disease at an early stage, even before symptoms appear. The technique was developed by researchers from China, and the results were published this week in the scientific journal Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. …

A test for diagnosing Parkinson’s disease that takes just three minutes is being developed by researchers at the University of Manchester, UK. Published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the work was inspired by retired nurse Joy Milne. The woman has hereditary hyperosmia, a condition …

Actress and activist Jane Fonda says she is “privileged” to have health insurance and revealed she’s been on chemotherapy for 6 months Jane Fondaan iconic Hollywood actress and activist, spoke for the first time about the battle with a cancer in the cells of the lymphatic system, known as non-Hodgkin …

posted on 07/30/2022 06:00 (credit: Center of Research on Inflammatory Diseases) Although it can appear in cities, Chagas disease is more common in rural areas and mainly affects vulnerable populations, such as riverside dwellers, rural workers, indigenous people and quilombolas. Today, a blood test indicates the presence of the parasite …

+ Platform uses tears in disease diagnosis (Photo: Nikolay Hristov/Unsplash) Researchers at Wenzhou University of Medicine in China have developed a technology that collects and purifies human tears, allowing them to identify biomarkers of diseases such as cancer and diabetes. The system is part of a study published on July …

Emily Bluntprotagonist of a silent place (2018) talked about the battle against stuttering, a speech disorder characterized by repetition of sounds and syllables or by involuntary stops, which compromise verbal fluency. The actress revealed the difficulties and challenges of neurobiological dysfunction at the American Institute for Stuttering’s 2022 Freeing Voices, …