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Mother With Supposed Dead Fetus Finds She Is Still Pregnant

...r three weeks she found she was still pregnant. "A scan on Monday showed my baby was still intact and growing healthily. I was confused, angry, worried and elated almost all at the same time," Mrs Brown told The Scottish Sun newspaper. "I wanted to know how this had happened and I wanted to speak to a do...

Imaging study affords renewed thrust on smoking cessation treatments

...t UCLA, used positron emission tomography (PET) to scan the brains of 11 smokers and assess nicotine distribution there. During the scanning sessions, the participants smoked one of five amounts--none, one puff, three puffs, one full cigarette, or until their craving was satisfied (2 and one-half to three...

New Study To Identify Osteoporosis Genes

...l also have blood samples taken, and a genome wide scan carried out on their DNA in laboratories in Edinburgh. Professor Ralston said he and the rest of the team were confident that new genes that predispose people to osteoporosis would be found during the course of the project. "If our studies are succ...

Study to Identify People at Risk of Alcoholism

The most comprehensive scan of the human genome to date linked to the identifiction of people most at risk for developing alcoholism has been completed by researchers at// the Molecular Neurobiology Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of H...

Study Of Twins May Solve Aging Questions

...mes and provide a blood sample, having a MRI brain scan and answer questions about their health, lifestyle, memory and thinking. RAS...

Visual impairment risk in preterm infants with reduced occipital brain volumes

...infants. Such measurements could be done on an MRI scan at discharge from the neonatal unit identifying children with higher risk for later visual challenges.' Source-Eurekalert GYT...

Gamma Knife Offers Noninvasive Treatment for Vascular Disorders, Brain Tumors

...went an angiogram and a magnetic resonance imaging scan of her brain, giving her team of physicians up-to-date diagnostic data to locate the precise target area for the treatment. The scans are entered into a computer program offering a three-dimensional image of the AVM in her brain and allowing her doct...

A New drug Developed To Fight The Bio-Terrorism Threat Of VEE Virus

...X-ray crystallography, in which X-rays are used to scan crystallized protein samples, working both with equipment at UTMB and the high power synchrotron radiation source at Louisiana State University's Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices in Baton Rouge. "It took about a year of hard work by An...

Aussie Doctors Claim Breakthrough in Breast Cancer Treatment

...s was a breakthrough. He said that the use of PET scan revealed success of treatments within weeks whereas conventional scans took months to deliver their verdict on a treatment. Prof Hicks said, "During that time the patients accumulate the toxicity of that drug or that treatment. If it is not working ...

Apollo Announces Research on Indian Cardiac Epidemic

... Apollo hasnounced that it would introduce 64 CT scan in all its major clinics and hospitals. This is the most technologically advanced equipment in detecting heart disease within 10 seconds in a non-invasive manner. Source-IANS...

Researchers Locate Genetic Link for Nicotine Dependence Among African Americans

...lained. The researchers conducted a genome-wide scan of 1,261 individuals representing 402 nuclear families of African American origin, the largest sample collection of African-American smokers throughout the world. Their results revealed a region on chromosome 10 that showed a significant linkage to s...

Computers Assist Breast Cancer Screening

...thod, labeled the Cad method will use computers to scan mammograms for anomalies or irregularities, arising from the presence of tumors. In the event of the screening turning out positive for tumor, the radiologist is alerted. Professor Fiona Gilbert of Aberdeen University, who led the study said: "The ...

Peek Before Birth

...in the womb. The primary purpose of the hospital scan is as a diagnostic tool, which is used to ensure t... heart is beating. Unless called back for a second scan due to blood test results being abnormal parents have to go to private clinics for another look at t...

Food addiction similar to Drug addiction!!

A recent research that studied the brain scan of some obese people reported that obese people might get addicted to food in the similar fashion as a drug addict to drugs.// Gene-Jack Wang and colleagues at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York conducted this study. It was published in the ...

Chemotherapy's Effects on the Brain

...leagues used positron emission tomography (PET) to scan the brains of 21 women who had undergone surgery t...d flow to their brains. The researchers also ran a scan of the patients' resting brain metabolism after the women finished the exercises. "The PET scans ...

Perception Stabilized – Thanks to Your Brains

... the time, whether to follow a moving object or to scan our surroundings. On average, our eyes move several times a second – in fact, in a lifetime, our eyes move more often than our heart beats. "Nevertheless, you don't have the sense that the world has just swept across or rotated around you. You sense ...

Awake Surgery to treat Brain tumours

...he visible tumour can be done with the help of MRI scan during the surgery. No intra-operative MRI scanner is available at either Dublin or Cork. Source-Meindia GYT...

High-Tech Scans For Early Detection Of Breast Cancer

...,000 women yearly in the UK can be detected by the scan in younger women.Around 5% of the breast cancer ca...The problem is going to be the cost factor. An MRI scan is 10 times more expensive than a mammogram which is 35 pounds. Also the waiting period for the sca...

Scans Aid in Early Lung Cancer Detection

...similar to the way in which mammograms are used to scan women for breast cancer,// according to a recent US study. The study found that people in whom lung tumors were detected early by CT scans and removed had an estimated 10-year survival rate of 92% which is comparatively better than the roughly 70% ...

Remote Control MRI Scans

...ates execution of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan using the internet by an off-site imaging expert. ...orm the exam via remote control." Finn performed scan of 30 adults and children at the UCLA Medical Center from his office that is situated around half a ...

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