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fMRI Finds ‘Vegetative’ Patient Actually Aware 26 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
In a heartening but also disturbing finding, a new study has found that patients who are nonresponsive, even thought to be in a vegetative state, can actually follow commands and communicate via funct...
MRI Implicates Iron Buildup In Alzheimer’s 24 Aug 2013 | 01:09 am
Sophisticated MRI techniques indicate that iron accumulation may play a role in causing Alzheimer’s disease. George Bartzokis, MD, a professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience an...
Specializing In Cat Scans—And Dog Scans Too 23 Aug 2013 | 03:03 am
The Rosenthal Imaging and Treatment Center at the University of Pennsylvania has a 1.5-tesla MRI scanner, a 16-slice CT unit, a linear accelerator for radiation therapy, an anesthesia prep room where ...
Chain Of Virtual Autopsy Centers Planned 21 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
The first of what a Malaysian entrepreneur hopes will be a worldwide chain of virtual autopsy facilities is scheduled to open this October in England. Matt Chandran said 3-D imaging software from his...
Computer Reads Minds Using Brain Scans 20 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Nearer and nearer approaches the day when computers can read our minds. Researchers at Radboud University Nijmegen in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, have taken the latest step in that direction by teachin...
Study Backs Proton Therapy In High-Risk Kids 19 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
As big health systems rush to build extremely expensive proton beam therapy centers, skeptics have pointed to a lack of evidence, so far, demonstrating that proton therapy works better than convention...
MRI Linked To Increased Breast Cancer Surgery 16 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
When older women with breast cancer get an MRI scan, they are more likely to receive aggressive surgical treatment—such as the removal of both breasts—that may not be necessary, according to a new stu...
Tech Pleads Guilty In Multistate Hepatitis Case 16 Aug 2013 | 01:46 am
A traveling radiology technician who allegedly left at least 46 hospital patients in four states infected with hepatitis C pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Concord, New Hampshire, to charg...
Good News, Bad News On Prostate Imaging 14 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
The good news: a campaign by local governments and a urology association reduced prostate imaging in Sweden. The bad news: a campaign by local governments and a urology association reduced prostate im...
Ultrasound Protects Kidney Before Surgery 13 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
This could have big implications: A simple advance dose of ultrasound can protect the kidney from an injury that commonly occurs as a side effect of surgery, according to a study reported online Augus...
