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Cataplexy During Status Cataplecticus Resembles REM Sleep

...r brain SPECT during an episode of cataplexy. This image was compared with her brain SPECT during an intervening asymptomatic period. Subtraction SPECT coregistered to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-determined anatomic areas differentially perfused during cataplexy and basal wakefulness state. Accordin...

MR Angiography Detects Blocked Arteries Accurately

...t) for detecting blockages of over 50 percent, and image quality was rated sufficient to excellent for 97 percent of the arterial segments evaluated. "This procedure should be highly cost effective for clinical use, because of the speed and modest dose of contrast required," Dr. Nael said. "In the absenc...

Nepal's Most Influential Woman 'Critically' Ill

...ur Deuba's wife Dr Arjoo Deuba came closest to the image of an active first lady, campaigning to get her husband released after he was jailed on a graft charge during the king's regime. Source-IANS...

Cashing in on IT for Healthcare

...gulatory agencies and pharmaceutical companies, in image interpretation and data analysis services for clinical trials and pharmaceutical research enterprise, he said. Source-IANS...

Molecular Link Between Inflammation and Cancer Discovered

...eps in cellular defense and development as “mirror image pathways.” His team showed that these pathways are not distinct from one another because they are linked by a protein called p100. They found that inflammation leads to an increase in p100, but that p100 is also used in certain steps in development. ...

MDCT Accurately Locates Bowel Perforation: Study

...iologists should look for three things on the MDCT image – gas bubbles near the bowel wall, a defect in the...ated, Dr. Hainaux said. "MDCT allows us to quickly image the patient, then reformat the images so we can look at them from many different angles, making this...

New Guidelines For Assessing Lymphoma Treatment

...tted from injected tracer chemicals to measure and image biological activity. The most commonly used PET radiotracer is fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), a radiolabeled form of glucose, which is consumed more avidly by tumors than by normal tissue. In contrast to conventional computed tomography (CT) or magnetic...

New Computed Imaging Technique Uses Hazy Images to Improve View

...SAM works by utilizing light from the out-of-focus image planes, Ralston said. "Although most of the image planes are blurry, ISAM descrambles the light to produce a fully focused, three-dimensional image." ...

New Scan to Spot Early Effects of Alcohol on Liver

...nutes by the placing of a paddle on the body. An image of the liver can be seen on a screen and a computer connected to the sensor works out the degree of any liver damage by assessing how quickly the sound waves travel through the liver. "This is an important addition to finding out what is happening ...

New Gadget to Treat Insomnia, Stress

...e user puts a finger on the sensor and a wave-like image appears on the screen, which reflects the heartbeat detected by the sensor. The display prompts the user when to breathe in and when to exhale during the 15-minute session, so encouraging longer, deeper breaths. Results with patients treated fo...

Drop That Glossy, Girl!

...nt girls”. Efforts have been made to reduce body image issues due to media exposure. Some European fashion shows now require models to have a BMI of at least 18, and magazine editors say they include information about healthy eating and exercise in their articles. As researchers say, young girls are th...

3 –D Image of Influenza Virus – A Definite Breakthrouh

...and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) have released a detailed image of the virus H3N2 strain// that causes influenza. ... allow us to ‘know our enemy’ much better." The image was taken by a novel, three-dimensional imaging method called electron tomography. This is based o...

A New Gamma Camera Technique for the Detection of Small Breast Tumors

... for women because much less pressure is needed to image a breast. “We hope that our studies will eventu...ession needed to take a mammogram,” he says. The image usually shows low, but some, absorption of the sestamibi throughout the breast. In areas of cancer, ...

Protein ‘Fingerprint’ in Spinal Fluid Could Spot Alzheimer’s Disese

...ned cutting edge “proteomics” technology, detailed image analysis, and complex computational and statistical analyses to simultaneously compare 2,000 cerebrospinal fluid proteins from 34 patients with autopsy-proven Alzheimer’s disease to those of 34 age-matched controls without the disease. “Just as the...

Two-Slice-Touch Rule

...classifies a meniscus as 'torn' if there is one MR image with an abnormal finding. The authors of the study reviewed the medical records of 174 patients who had knee MR exams then correlated the MR results with knee arthroscopy to determine accuracy when diagnosing menisci as: 'torn', 'possibly torn', or '...

Scientists On New Venture – An Online Global Map To Help Fight Malari

...u can access them [two ways], through kind of just image maps that you would download. Or you can download a special file which you can open through Google Earth and you can zoom into your country or your area of interest and see where the parasite rate surveys have been done,' said Dr. Simon Hay of Malari...

Vice President Urges Dental Institutes to Adopt Some Villages

...ped that they should give this Institution a brand image and set up the right traditions for the successive batches. He urged them to take maximum advantage of the excellent learning opportunities that this Institute offers to them so that on successful completion of their medical education, they will be o...

Study Focus on the Need for Vigilance in Two Key Areas Among Adolescents

... children display the same kind of disordered body image disturbance as older children with eating disorders, who often proclaim themselves "fat" or "disgusting." "Young kids may truly not know why they don't want to eat," said Peebles. "They just don't want to be bigger." As a result, more than 60 perce...

New Imaging System Surpasses Mammography In Detecting Breast Cancer

... angles and then merge them into one 3-dimensional image that are better in showing whether a spot on the X...sical exam, simply to see how well the CBBCT could image the breast and the CBBCT proved itself to be as good as conventional mammogram in imaging the breast...

Adolescent Smokers Have Greater Vulnerability To AUDs Than Do Non-Smokers

... so severe that we need to create a more objective image to reject both smoking and drinking among adolescents." "Ours is the first study to … establish a correlation between adolescent smoking and AUDs that cannot be explained by heavier drinking," said Grucza. "Now we, and hopefully others, need to inv...

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