Whole-body MRI Takes Less Than 20 Min To Scan A Patient's Entire Body For Cancer Spread To Bone
Whole-body MRI with an automatic moving table is effective for evaluating the entire skeleton in patients with suspected bone metastasis (cancer that has spread to the bone from other parts of the body) in a single imaging scan-and it only takes between 15 and 18 minutes, say two different European studies. For one study, researchers from the Clinica Girona in Catalonia, Spain, performed w...Overfishing large sharks impacts entire marine ecosystem, shrinks shellfish supply
Fewer big sharks in the oceans mean that bay scallops and other shellfish may be harder to find at the market, according to an article in the March 30 issue of the journal Science, tying two unlikely links in the food web to the same fate. A team of Canadian and American ecologists, led by world-renowned fisheries biologist Ransom Myers at Dalhousie University, has found that overfishing...UW-Madison working to extend wireless access to entire campus
The universitys 2003 student computing survey showed that 46 percent of students said they were likely to us...Why not brand for an entire century?
Now a new routine emerges as savvy marketers enjoy cyber-branding using Wow, its the bargain of the century... only 3 cents per day. Right now its the cheapest license in the world, providing the registration rights to your URL; its the on...DOTS For Tuberculosis TO Cover Entire Country
The Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) tuberculosis control programme will cover the entire country by November 2006 said union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said here Sunday.// "The drugs for the DOTS programme will be made available even in petty shops and dhabas in remote areas," said the minister at a function here to open a new HIV vaccine trial and patient care f...Ontario’s Entire Drug System Undergoes a Revam
Ontario plans to revamp the drug system. Health Minister George Smitherman said that he would invest $3.5-billion more to improve the drug program//. He also said that he would introduce more changes that would make the drug system transparent and sustainable. They will also speed up the slow drug review process and ensure patients' voices are heard. The taxpayers have not received fair v...Fruit fly’s visual map based entirely on genetic inputs
The visual maps in the brains of vertebrates and fruit fly denote what they see. Millions of neuron contacts comprise these visual maps// that need to be wired properly in the early stages for normal vision in the adult stage. A general notion is that visual maps are so intricate that they cannot only be genetically programmed but needs neurons or nerve cells’ activity in the brain. In...New Study Confirms Role for Pertussis Immunization of Entire Family in Reducing Infant Pertussis
Majority of Infants Infected by Members of Their Own Household SWIFTWATER, Pa., March 27, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- A new studyreleased today in the April issue of The Pediatric InfectiousDisease Journal about the transmission of pertussis -- commonlyknown as whooping cough -- found that household members were thesource for 71 to 82 percent of cases among infants for whom asource case could be...