Sentences with phrase «study tested positive»

In addition to carrying rabies, 62 to 82 percent of cats in a recent study tested positive for toxoplasmosis.»

The new figures are in line with an earlier study by Boston University that found that 97 % of brains of former NFL players who were studied tested positive for CTE.

Not exact matches

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The national cost of false - positive tests and overdiagnosed breast cancer is estimated at $ 4 billion a year, according to a 2015 study in Health Affairs.

The series of studies led by New York University's Gabriele Oettingen tested the effects of positive thinking on subjects» moods, both in the moment and several months later.

For future studies, they suggested, researchers should test the performance of doped chess players given a much longer time limit, so the study could isolate the positive effects of brain drugs.

Another lab study put the theory to the test in the work place, finding that those who received positive notes from peers were less likely to experience burnout, fatigue or have intentions to quit.

This test confirmed a significant positive effect of treatment on investment in high variance stocks, both for the cortisol administration study (z = 2.37, P = 0.018) and the testosterone administration study (z = 2.04, P = 0.041, see Fig.

This study leaves open the question of whether the green tea tested in this study is contaminated with gluten or if something in the green tea is causing false positive results.

In one study [16] 44 % of people with peanut allergy had a positive allergy test for lupin allergy and 7 of 8 who had a positive test and were fed lupin as part of a study reacted to this food.»

Studies confirm that graduates of the program wait longer to engage in sex; have fewer partners; and are more willing to talk about HIV with peers and relatives, take an HIV test and stay on treatment if they test positive.

And a 2014 study of student performance at schools in California and New York, conducted by the American Institutes for Research, found that attending deeper - learning schools had a significant positive impact, on average, on students» content knowledge and standardized - test scores.

Because the overnighting infants tried to get their mother's attention and gazed at her more often — which on the actual test is a positive sign of readiness to learn language — the study's authors concluded that the overnighting infants were more watchful and wary about their mother's whereabouts, indicating more anxiety and insecurity.

When the SCAT2 was issued, superseding the original SCAT published in 2005, the authors recommended continued reliance on the SAC until prospective studies could be conducted to assess the SCAT2's sensitivity (how good the test is in identifying athletes with concussion; for example, a test which is very sensitive will have few false negatives, rarely missing those later found to have concussion) and specificity (a test with high specificity will have few false positives, rarely mis - classifying people without concussion as having concussion).

One could surmise that those «forward thinking» operators would also be the early adopters and they also likely utilize cycle menus, taste testings, and the other positive approaches outlined in the study — all contributing to a net zero or positive participation bump.

Studies have found that ovulation can occur a few days off from what a positive ovulation test or BBT chart indicates.

In addition, many studies have focused on sensitization to a particular antigen (ie, positive serum IgE or skin testing) rather than clinical disease.

Rentals are targeted because the study found 80 percent of the children in Buffalo who test positive for high levels of lead in their blood live in rental properties.

Each of the 30 pregnant women in the study had a sonographically short cervix and a positive fetal fibronectin test between 23 and 28 weeks of gestation.

While Grob's study is not complete — he has tested 11 out of a projected 12 volunteers — patients seemed to have positive experiences.

In the study researchers sought to test whether earlier findings on the positive effect of neurofeedback on sleep quality and memory could also be replicated in a double - blind placebo - controlled study.

A study published this month, and paid for by Sequenom, found that the company's test has a false positive rate of 0.2 % (G. E. Palomaki et al..

«Not everyone that tests positive for toxoplasmosis will have aggression issues,» said Dr. Emil Coccaro, a professor and chairman of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the University of Chicago, who led the study.

Apple's pledge apparently did not apply to products already in the pipeline: The recent Greenpeace study, Missed Call: iPhone's Hazardous Chemicals, points out that half of the iPhone components analyzed tested positive for bromine — whose vapors are toxic if inhaled — even though the device debuted a month after Apple's «A Greener Apple» proclamation.

Results of a multi ‐ center clinical study found a 31 percent reduction in unnecessary biopsies due to false ‐ positives as a result of using the phi test.1

«Such a high rate of a false positives in this particular study was unexpected,» says Tandy - Connor, who believes that some of the discrepancies in the results can be explained by technical differences between the various testing methods used.

In their recent study, the researchers took a retrospective look at 697 patients who'd received transplants at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Fred Hutch's clinical care partner, between 1993 and 2015 and who had also tested positive for rhinovirus.

Because the findings clearly show that the positive test - tube and monkey studies of PRO 2000 were misleading, researchers now know to use more stringent requirements to deem a product worthy of human trials.

In the new study, the researchers compared this standard of care to a screening approach where pregnant women are tested approximately monthly for malaria using rapid diagnostic tests and treated with a different drug, dihydroartemisinin - piperaquine (DP) only if they test positive for the parasite.

When study staff asked about follow - up care, they found several gaps: Among the 18 with a positive test, 13 received a confirmatory follow - up test, 12 were referred for specialty care, only 10 received information about how not to transmit the virus to others, and nine received education about living with HCV.

Among those who were screened, 18 said they tested positive for HCV, which was 30 percent of the 59 people in the study who said they have injected drugs.

HIV - positive status was assigned to 19 percent of the cohort — 44 percent of whom were unaware — and 36 percent of those in the study that were HIV - negative had not been tested in a year.

Generally, only 30 to 40 percent of the samples test positive for Lassa fever, so the aim of this study was to determine which other viruses had been causing serious illnesses in the region.

That may explain why 98 % of the e4 - positive subjects said they would still get tested if they had the choice again, says Robert Green, the Boston University neurologist who led the study: «If this information was a drug,... it looks pretty safe in this small group of screened individuals.»

Compared with the CSF - based method, which correctly identified only about 77 % of positive cases in this study, the swab test caught 97 % of 30 CJD - positive patients, missing just one.

«We found that the group that did the yoga course showed an improvement in positive mood, a decrease in stress and greater accuracy in a computer test of impulsivity and attention,» say Dr Amy Bilderbeck and Dr Miguel Farias, who led the study at the Departments of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry at Oxford University.

«You shouldn't be testing everybody, but if there are reasons to believe that a test for H. pylori may come back positive, and it does come back positive, you should go on to treat,» says Dr. Traci Murakami, previous gastroenterology fellow at the UA and graduate of the clinical and translational research graduate certificate at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman School of Public Health, now an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and lead author of the study.

The study examines trends in the characteristics of U.S. drivers who have been involved in fatal crashes between 1993 and 2010 and test positive for drugs.

The researchers call for more targeted studies to assess the clinical outcomes of patients who test positive for metal sensitization.

When comparing testing sites that dispensed coupons with those that did not, study results show there was no significant improvement in the percentage of people who were successfully linked to medical care after HIV diagnosis, possibly due to the fact that there were fewer than anticipated HIV - positive individuals identified at the HIV test sites.

Several studies published in PLoS Medicine this week conclude that the MTB / RIF test is very effective at diagnosing TB in HIV - positive patients, which is particularly difficult because they often have smear - negative results because their TB is disseminated or extrapulmonary.

Inappropriate testing for heart attacks increases the cost of treatment; increases the number of false positives, which could lead to further testing and unnecessary consultations; and adds to patient anxiety, said Dr. Anil Makam, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern and first author of the study published today in JAMA Internal Medicine.

«However, we do not know if this relationship is causal, and not everyone that tests positive for toxoplasmosis will have aggression issues,» Coccaro said, adding that additional studies are needed.

«Our study linked a positive score in this test with quicker spread to the brain, and importantly showed the factor we were measuring is providing information on patient outcome independently of other biomarkers already measured in the clinic.

The study revealed that 14 percent of patients with oropharyngeal cancers tested positive for HCV antibodies, compared to just 6.5 percent in the control group.

Rather than wait for the results of that study, Reiman says that he and his colleagues decided to conduct the two trials simultaneously to ensure that any positive results from the Colombian study can be quickly tested into a more representative population — drugs that work for people with early - onset Alzheimer's might not necessarily help those with late - onset Alzheimer's, he says.

As in previous studies, contamination rates were high: 66 percent of contact lens cases tested positive for bacterial or fungal contamination.

The remaining two people, who had no known exposure or symptoms, had positive results, but follow - up testing using different methods was negative, making Ebola virus infection very unlikely.The research team, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and funded by the Wellcome Trust, enrolled 300 UK and Ireland healthcare and other frontline workers ¹ for the study and sent them oral fluid collection devices.

The study, appearing March 9 in the journal Scientific Reports, directly tested the antibodies used in previous analyses and showed that they cross-reacted with proteins other than irisin, yielding a false positive result.

In this new study, the researchers therefore used data from 46 experiments on grassland plant diversity in order to test the hypothesis of a positive effect of biodiversity on the resistance and resilience of ecosystems to various climate events, from drought to extreme rainfall.