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Flexible Ultrasound Patch Could Make It Easier To Inspect Damage In Odd-Shaped Structures
Researchers have developed a stretchable, flexible patch that could make it easier to perform ultrasound imaging on odd-shaped structures, such as engine parts, turbines, reac...Full Article
Brain Scans May Help Diagnose Neurological, Psychiatric Disorders
There are no laboratory tests to diagnose migraines, depression, bipolar disorder and many other ailments of the brain. Doctors typically gauge such illnesses based on self-re...Full Article
What Is Testicular Cancer?
Testicular cancer is the most common form of cancer in men ages 15 to 35. The American Cancer Society (ACS) estimates that there will be approximately 9,310 new cases of testi...Full Article
Family Grateful 5-Year-Old Son’s Brain Tumor Treated With Proton Therapy
Hudson Brown, 5, of Grosse Pointe Farms, is like lots of kids his age: he’s passionate about Legos, T-ball, family and his favorite toy - Bumblebee, a Transformers robot. Un...Full Article
Party Lines
The divide that separates conservative and liberal values may be as wide now as it has ever been in our country. This divide shows itself in areas of everyday life, and health...Full Article
Paralyzed Patient Feels Sensation Again
For the first time, scientists at Caltech have induced natural sensations in the arm of a paralyzed man by stimulating a certain region of the brain with a tiny array of elect...Full Article
New Cardiac Imaging Technique Shortens Testing Time, Improves Patient Comfort
A team of Cedars-Sinai investigators has developed a new technique for conducting cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests that improves patient comfort, shortens testin...Full Article
New Glasgow Coma Scale–Pupils Score And Multifactor Probability Outcome Charts For Use In Patients With TBI
The University of Glasgow’s Sir Graham Teasdale, co-creator of the Glasgow Coma Scale, has teamed with Paul M. Brennan and Gordon D. Murray of the University of Edinburgh to c...Full Article
Fluorescent Dye Could Enable Sharper Biological Imaging
Fluorescence imaging is widely used for visualizing biological tissues such as the back of the eye, where signs of macular degeneration can be detected. It is also commonly us...
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Expanded Rush Program Provides Relief From Pelvic Floor Conditions
Trouble with urine or bowel control, bladder pain, recurring urinary tract infections, constipation and other sexual function issues frequently can be traced to a dysfunctiona...Full Article
“I’m One Of The Lucky Ones” — Treating Head And Neck Cancer
Walker, a retired administrative assistant to the superintendent of Boaz City Schools, was getting ready for her regular doctor visit and noticed a lump on her neck. Her prima...Full Article
Study Finds Brain Differences In Athletes Playing Contact vs. Noncontact Sports
A study from researchers at Indiana University in the journal Neuroimage: Clinical has found differences in the brains of athletes who participate in contact sports compared t...Full Article
Fragile X Imaging Study Reveals Differences In Infant Brains
For the first time, UNC School of Medicine researchers have used MRIs to show that babies with the neurodevelopmental condition fragile X syndrome had less-developed white mat...Full Article
Calcium Testing In Coronary Arteries Better Way To Predict Heart Attacks Than Stress Testing Alone
Researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City have found that incorporating underused, but available, imaging technologies more precisely p...Full Article
Portable Device Detects Severe Stroke In Seconds With 92 Percent Accuracy
A new device worn like a visor can detect emergent large-vessel occlusion in patients with suspected stroke with 92% accuracy, report clinical investigators at the Medical Uni...Full Article
Philips Enhances Point-Of-Care Ultrasound With Reacts Platform For Remote Collaboration And Virtual Training
Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, in partnership with Innovative Imaging Technologies (IIT), today announced an industry-first integrated tele-ultrasound so...Full Article
New Artificial Intelligence Technique Dramatically Improves The Quality Of Medical Imaging
A radiologist's ability to make accurate diagnoses from high-quality diagnostic imaging studies directly impacts patient outcome. However, acquiring sufficient data to generat...Full Article
MRI Stroke Data Set Released By USC Research Team
A USC-led team has now compiled, archived and shared one of the largest open-source data sets of brain scans from stroke patients via a study published in Scientific Data, a N...Full Article
Radiologist Uses Virtual Reality As Powerful Teaching Tool
Physicians, trainees and even laypeople can now stand right beside an expert radiologist as he performs one of the most difficult medical procedures of its kind – in virtual r...Full Article
The Lancet: Low Back Pain Affects 540 Million People Worldwide, But Too Many Patients Receive The Wrong Care
Low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting an estimated 540 million people at any one time. Yet, a new Series of papers in The Lancet highlights th...Full Article
Ultrasound To Enhance Cancer Drug Delivery
For decades, ultrasound has been used to image organs such as the heart and kidneys, check blood flow, monitor the development of fetuses, reduce pain and even break up kidney...Full Article
What Is The Cost Of Interrupting A Radiologist?
A first of its kind study shows typical interruptions experienced by on-call radiologists do not reduce diagnostic accuracy but do change what they look at and increase the am...Full Article
Neuroscience Research Suggests Cognitive Imbalance Can Occur After Heading A Soccer Ball
New behavioral neuroscience research suggests there’s likely a connection between heading the ball in soccer and brain imbalance. Lucas Casten ’18 and Cornell College Profess...Full Article
Hackensack University Medical Center Foundation Announces a New Philanthropic Partnership with HBO
Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center Foundation is excited to begin the New Year by announcing a philanthropic partnership with Home Box Office (HBO...Full Article
ASTRO Issues Clinical Guideline For Whole Breast Radiation Therapy
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) today issued a new clinical guideline for the use of whole breast radiation therapy for breast cancer that expands the popu...Full Article