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The Latest on HealthMap, an Online Disease-Mining System

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2008-07-08 20:08:47 by Michael in Medgadget
...disease monitoring and tracking website, has published an interesting article in the latest PLoS Medicine , together with Clark Freifeld, a software developer and others, that documents the latest efforts to make HealthMap technology more attune to the language and chatter of the internet. We first reported about HealthMap back October, 2006...
 
Tags: infectious disease, infectious, disease, online infectious disease, disease outbreak reports, local news sources, news sources, reports, sources
 
 
 
 
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PillCam Used to Diagnose Crohn Disease

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2008-07-15 08:06:36 by Michael in Medgadget
...disease (IBD) comprises a number of disorders, such as ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn disease (CD). A retrospective cohort study of pedi patients published in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition has identified that capsule endoscopy can be a useful diagnostic modality in identifying the exact type of inflammatory bowel...
 
Tags: disease, inflammatory bowel disease, bowel disease, crohn disease, jejunal disease, crohn, bowel, ulcerative colitis, ulcerative
 
 
 
 
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First Transgenic Monkey Model of Huntington's Disease

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2008-05-19 21:33:08 by Michael in Medgadget
...disease, an important advance in our fight against this debilitating neurological problem Here's what they did to develop a transgenic model of HD in a rhesus macaque: The Emory research team developed this transgenic monkey model by introducing altered forms of the Huntington gene into monkey eggs using a viral vector. The eggs were...
 
Tags: monkey model, transgenic monkey model, model, disease, huntington, disease mechanisms, transgenic model, huntington gene, nih press release
 
 
 
 
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HealthMap Gives Lowdown on Disease Outbreaks, Could Save Lives [Web Tools]

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2008-07-19 20:00:00 by Elaine Chow in Gizmodo
...disease outbreaks. Every hour, HealthMap, an infectious disease-tracking website, feeds off of news, public health list serves, and the World Health Organization's online pages to survey the spread of infections. With help from Google, the program has identified 95 percent of all disease outbreaks, sometimes days before the WHO or...
 
Tags: disease outbreaks, web, real disease outbreaks, healthmap, web tool, world health organization, health care, online pages, salmonella outbreak
 
 
 
 
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Morgellons Disease: A New Skin Infection? CDC Wants to Know

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2008-01-17 04:00:18 by Michael in Medgadget
...Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is launching a study, in conjunction with Kaiser Permanente's Northern California Division of Research, to investigate whether multiple reports of a strange skin disease, that some call Morgellons, are true. ABC News is planning to run a story tonight on "Nightline" (11:35 ET), and has released the...
 
Tags: morgellons, skin, cdc, research, morgellons research foundation, morgellons disease, skin biopsies, call morgellons, call
 
 
 
 
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Sound Check For Mad Cow Disease

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2008-09-26 09:39:54 by Editor in Ubergizmo
...disease or not - simply measure the brain waves that they produce whenever an audio stimuli is played. This test is able to determine whether a bovine has the dreaded disease before the physical symptoms manifest, with a standard delayed reaction to certain sound being the common denominator. With this method being used daily, ranchers have...
 
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Micropressure as Treatment of Meniere's Disease

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2008-04-10 18:12:56 by Michael in Medgadget
...disease, a disorder stemming from excess fluid in the inner ear. Medtronic's Meniett device has already been approved by the FDA, and the new recommendation will help Medtronic remove the "investigational" label from the product, foreshadowing a time when insurance companies will be willing to pay for the therapy Medtronic press release :...
 
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Nanotechnology Solutions for Alzheimer's Disease

2008-04-11 15:19:35 by Michael in Medgadget
 
Our friend Michael Berger at Nanowerk has an interesting article that looks at how the development of nanotechnology might improve diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease: Nanotechnology solutions for Alzheimer's disease
 
Tags: nanotechnology, nanotechnology solutions, disease, alzheimer, friend michael berger, improve diagnosis, nanowerk, treatment, article
 
 
 
 
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New Helmet May Help Treat Alzheimer's Disease By Using Infrared Rays

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2008-01-26 10:00:00 by Joe Eitel in Inventor Spot - Inventions, Innovations, and Interesting Ideas for the Inventor in All of Us
...disease, and it comes in the form of a helmet that shoots infrared rays into your head. It sound a little crude, but these researchers say that this treatment has worked on mice to help restore memory and stimulate brain cell growth, and they will now begin testing on humans. read more Technorati Tags: Clothing Gadgets Health Innovation...
 
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