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Plasmin Delivered Through A Bubble Is More Effective Than TPA In Busting Clots -
Sat, 18 May 2013
A new study from the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine has found that, when delivere......
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MRI Useful For Predicting Failure Of Metal-On-Metal Hip Implants Before Symptoms Appear -
Fri, 17 May 2013
Metal-on-metal hip implants can cause inflammation of the joint lining (synovitis) long before sympt......
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MRI Autopsies Offer A New Option To Traditional Methods -
Thu, 16 May 2013
Autopsies that are minimally invasive by method of MRI scans and other techniques like blood tests c......
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Diagnosic Technology Improved By Chemistry Breakthrough -
Tue, 14 May 2013
From microscopes to MRI scanners, imaging technology is growing ever more vital in the world's hospi......
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Tickling Laughter Produces Different Brain Response Than Social Laughter -
Fri, 10 May 2013
When we hear someone laughing because they are being tickled, the connections in our brains respond ......
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Lantheus Medical Imaging To Proceed With Flurpiridaz F 18 Phase 3 Clinical Program Based On Interim Analysis Of Data From First Phase 3 Study -
Fri, 03 May 2013
Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., a global leader in developing, manufacturing and distributing innova......
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Method Devised For Enhancing Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer MRI -
Wed, 01 May 2013
Researchers at New York University and NYU Langone Medical Center have created a novel way to enhanc......
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New Imaging Technology Could Reveal Cellular Secrets -
Sat, 27 Apr 2013
Researchers have married two biological imaging technologies, creating a new way to learn how good c......
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Using Microbubbles To Improve Cancer Therapy -
Thu, 25 Apr 2013
Microbubbles decrease the time and acoustic power of ultrasound required to heat and destroy an embe......
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For Intravascular Ultrasound-Guided Inferior Vena Cava Filter Placement, 2 Venous Punctures Not Always Needed -
Mon, 22 Apr 2013
One venous puncture, rather than two, is a safe and effective approach to intravascular ultrasound-g......
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Renal Cell Tumors More Likely To Metastasize Better Identified By Chemical Shift MRI -
Mon, 22 Apr 2013
Adding "chemical shift" techniques to MRI can help differentiate clear cell renal cell carcinoma fro......
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In Women With Dense Breasts, Screening Breast Ultrasound Detects Cancers Missed On Mammography -
Mon, 22 Apr 2013
Screening breast ultrasound performed after mammography on women with greater than 50% breast densit......
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Expanding Obstetric And Breast Imaging Programs In Underserved Area Of Uganda -
Tue, 16 Apr 2013
Radiologists are a step closer to implementing a program in an underserved region of Uganda for diag......
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Brain Scan Offers First Objective Measure Of Pain -
Fri, 12 Apr 2013
Using fMRI scans of the brain, US scientists have for the first time developed a method of "seeing" ......
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'Fast fMRI' Protocol Could Aid In Planning Surgery For Epilepsy And Brain Tumors -
Wed, 10 Apr 2013
A new functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technique may provide neurosurgeons with a non-in......
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IMRT Benefits in Prostate Cancer Questioned (CME/CE) -
Mon, 20 May 2013
(MedPage Today) -- Men with prostate cancer gained no obvious benefits from treatment with intensity......
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MRI Predicts Failing MoM Hip Implants (CME/CE) -
Fri, 17 May 2013
(MedPage Today) -- Synovial volume as measured by MRI is highly predictive of metal-on-metal (MoM) h......
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Women in 40s Still Going for Mammograms (CME/CE) -
Fri, 17 May 2013
(MedPage Today) -- The rate of breast cancer screening among women in their 40s does not appear to h......
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Less Invasive Autopsy Works Nearly as Well (CME/CE) -
Fri, 17 May 2013
(MedPage Today) -- A minimally invasive approach using postmortem MRI may represent a viable alterna......
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ASCO: More Radiation No Good in NSCLC -
Wed, 15 May 2013
CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- Boosting the dose of radiation therapy in stage III non-small cell lung c......
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Bayer's Xofigo for Prostate Cancer Gets Fast Approval -
Wed, 15 May 2013
(MedPage Today) -- SILVER SPRING, Md. -- The FDA has approved radium-223 dichloride (Xofigo) for tre......
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Tissue Injury Has Lead in New Stroke Definition (CME/CE) -
Tue, 14 May 2013
(MedPage Today) -- If neuroimaging shows brain tissue injury, the insult should be called a stroke, ......
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Computer Breast Imaging Not as Good as Film (CME/CE) -
Tue, 14 May 2013
(MedPage Today) -- Computer-interpreted digital mammography identified significantly fewer breast ca......
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Cardio Notes: No Winner in Fast Food Battle -
Mon, 13 May 2013
(MedPage Today) -- Subway touts itself as having healthier choices than other fast food chains, but ......
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PodMed: A Medical News Roundup from Johns Hopkins (with audio) -
Fri, 10 May 2013
(MedPage Today) -- This week's topics include preventing inappropriate shocks with implanted defibri......
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Offer Smokers, Ex-Smokers CT Scans, Group Says (CME/CE) -
Thu, 09 May 2013
(MedPage Today) -- Older smokers and former long-time smokers should be offered annual low-dose CT s......
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Groups Back Adjuvant RT for Some Prostate Cancers (CME/CE) -
Thu, 09 May 2013
SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) -- Men with adverse-pathology prostate cancer should have the option of ad......
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Hospital Creates ‘Living’ Practice Guidelines -
Tue, 07 May 2013
(MedPage Today) -- Boston Children's Hospital has found a way to create guidelines that have reduced......
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Cardio Notes: Valve Repair Aids LV Function -
Mon, 06 May 2013
(MedPage Today) -- Using a minimally invasive approach to correcting mitral regurgitation improves f......
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Hands-On Exam Finds More Cases of Thyroid Ca (CME/CE) -
Sun, 05 May 2013
PHOENIX (MedPage Today) -- Physical exam pinpointed a much a higher rate of thyroid cancer compared ......
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In Preclinical Studies, New Drug Enhances Radiation Treatment For Brain Cancer -
Thu, 16 May 2013
A novel drug may help increase the effectiveness of radiation therapy for the most deadly form of br......
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Emphasis On X-Ray Quality Spurs Adoption Of Computed And Digital Radiography In Europe, Finds Frost & Sullivan -
Thu, 16 May 2013
The increasing popularity of retrofit systems fuels market growth The need to improve the efficiency......
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Significant Variations In Digital Mammography Cancer Detection Rates -
Wed, 15 May 2013
Digital direct radiography (DR) is significantly more effective than computed radiography (CR) at de......
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Advanced Imaging Studies May Enhance Diabetes Management -
Wed, 15 May 2013
New approaches to applying noninvasive imaging tests such as computed tomography (CT), magnetic reso......
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Joint Guideline For Radiation Therapy After Prostatectomy Issued By ASTRO And AUA -
Thu, 09 May 2013
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and the American Urological Association (AUA) ar......
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Detecting Recurrent Lung Cancer At An Earlier Stage Using Minimal Dose CT -
Wed, 08 May 2013
Lung cancer is associated with very high mortality, in part because it is hard to detect at early st......
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More Frequent Monitoring Of Coronary Artery Calcium Buildup Could Save Lives -
Tue, 07 May 2013
Patients with increasing accumulations of coronary artery calcium were more than six times more like......
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PET/CT Enhance Inflammatory Bowel Disease Detection -
Sun, 05 May 2013
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, may be detected a......
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Diabetes Drug Makes Lung Cancer Vulnerable To Radiotherapy -
Fri, 03 May 2013
THE DIABETES drug metformin slows the growth of lung cancer cells and makes them more likely to be k......
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Lung Cancer Survival Improved By Chemo, Radiation, Then Surgery -
Thu, 02 May 2013
In one of the largest observational studies of its kind, researchers report that a combination of ch......
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X-Ray Analysis Could Boost Legumes, Reduce Fertilizer Pollution -
Fri, 26 Apr 2013
The overuse of nitrogen fertilizers in agriculture can wreak havoc on waterways, health and the envi......
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Successful Cancer Treatment Bodes Well For Fukushima, Other Nuclear Disaster Victims: Chernobyl Follow-Up Study -
Fri, 26 Apr 2013
More than a quarter of a century after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, many children and teenagers w......
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Race, Income Linked To Breast Cancer Treatment Delays -
Thu, 25 Apr 2013
Women who delay treatment for breast cancer are less likely to survive, and this is especially obser......
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Elderly Patients With Bone Metastases Benefit From Palliative Radiotherapy -
Wed, 24 Apr 2013
Giving palliative radiotherapy to elderly patients with painful bone metastases can significantly im......
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Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Targeted By Radioisotopes Attached To Listeria -
Wed, 24 Apr 2013
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a therapy fo......
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