In other words, the group hopes that the illness can one day soon be diagnosed using medical techniques like blood tests or brain scans, rather than self-reported symptoms.
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What schools need, he said, is something like NICE (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence), the public body that assesses medicines and medical techniques for safety, clinical efficacy and cost effectiveness.
Professor Vaskar Saha, an expert on childhood cancer from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, told BBC News Online that survival rates could be improved in the developing world by relatively simply measures, such as training medical staff in diagnostic techniques.
Medical students can now practise surgical techniques on 3D models and animations instead of working on cadavers or dummies.
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Basic medical care, mosquito nets, better agricultural techniques, more education.
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The Association of British Insurers has called for whiplash injuries to be assessed by an accredited medical expert, trained in the latest diagnostic techniques and able to take into account the circumstances of the collision rather than the claimant's reported symptoms.
AIDS. Besides such basic medical tests, however, most of the company's screening techniques are aimed at capturing one crucial trait: whether the individual will fight back.
Prof Young said medical textbooks would need to be updated to include Prof Owen's techniques.
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By applying market-research techniques to a new field, he came up with a colorful, gamelike medical questionnaire that became the basis for the new company he heads, Tonic Health of Palo Alto, Calif.
The fellowship will allow her to spend some time in California, USA to learn pioneering techniques and collaborate with two leading research groups at University of California, Berkeley and Stanford Medical School.
Never mind that numerous professional medical and scientific societies around the world had concluded as early as the 1980s that the new molecular techniques of genetic engineering posed no greater risks to health or environment than other products.
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