Breast Imaging / Mammography
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What we did when it happened: a timeline analysis of the social disorder in London - Briggs D.
Purpose - Over the course of the early part of August 2011, we saw revolving images of social disorder in London yet very thin explanations for the events. Yet the disorder continued and each time it evolved in different areas. Then the politicians came ba... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
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Is Tubal Ligation Reversal Effective?
A frequently repeated posting on the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center Message Board was created today by a recent tube reversal patient: "It's a girl! She measured 19 weeks 3 days and she is 10 oz!" This comment was posted by a pregnant patient after having her ultrasound at her obstetrician's office. Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is a unique medical facility exclusively for women who want to get pregnant after tubal sterilization. Dr. Berger and Dr. Monteith are able to perform surgery to repair tubal ligation in 98% of the patients they see. Women who are interested in tubal reversal can view pregnancy success rates after tubal reversal procedures on the website of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center. (Source: Tubal Ligation Reversal News)
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Damaged connections in Phineas Gage's brain: Famous 1848 case of man who survived accident has modern parallel
In 1848, Phineas Gage survived an accident that drove an iron rod through his head. Researchers, for the first time, used images of Gage’s skull combined with modern-day brain images to suggest there was extensive damage to the white matter “pathways” that connected various regions of his brain. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Laxative-Free CT Colonography Detects Most Larger LesionsLaxative-Free CT Colonography Detects Most Larger Lesions
Laxative-free CT colonography accurately detected adenomas 10 mm or larger, with better patient experience than with colonoscopy, but sensitivity was lower for smaller lesions. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Radiology Headlines)
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Monitoring Pediatric CT Dose at Adult Hospitals
Children’s hospitals use dedicated pediatric technologists and more closely follow protocols, resulting in dramatically lower radiation doses. Adult hospitals must take greater care in monitoring dose. Here’s how. (Source: Diagnostic Imaging)
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Laxative-free bowel examination feasible
Laxative-free computed tomographic colonography is as effective for detection of polyps of 10 mm in size or larger as conventional imaging techniques, research suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Oncology)MedWorm Message: Please support the Doctors In Chains campaign for the medics tortured and sentenced for up to 15 years in Bahrain. #FreeDoctors
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Phineas Gage's connectome
Modern technology provides a fresh perspective on the most famous case study in the history of neuroscienceAnyone who has studied psychology or neuroscience will be familiar with the incredible case of Phineas Gage, the railroad worker who had a metre-long iron rod propelled straight through his head at high speed in an explosion. Gage famously survived this horrific accident, but underwent dramatic personality changes afterwards. In recent years researchers reconstructed his skull and the passage of the rod through it, to try to understand how these changes were related to his brain damage. Now, neuroscientists from the University of California, Los Angeles have produced Gage's connectome - a detailed wiring diagram of his brain, showing how its long-range connections were altered by the ...
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UCLA researchers map damaged connections in Phineas Gage's brain
Poor Phineas Gage. In 1848, the supervisor for the Rutland and Burlington Railroad in Vermont was using a 13-pound, 3-foot-7-inch rod to pack blasting powder into a rock when he triggered an explosion that drove the rod through his left cheek and out of the top of his head. As reported at the time, the rod was later found, "smeared with blood and brains." Miraculously, Gage lived, becoming the most famous case in the history of neuroscience — not only because he survived a horrific accident that led to the destruction of much of his left frontal lobe but also because of the injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior, which were said to be profound. Gage went from being an affable 25-year-old to one that was fitful, irreverent and profane. His friends and a...
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Trusting Tiger Woods: How do facial cues affect preference and trust?
People respond to facial cues and this affects their level of trust, according to a new study that looks at the way consumers react to morphed photo images. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Nine new breast cancer risk genes: Landscape of cancer genes and mutational processes in breast cancer complicated
Researchers have described nine new genes that drive the development of breast cancer. This takes the tally of all genes associated with breast cancer development to 40. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Video: Study Reports TMS Therapy Helps Patients With MDD
In this video, Dr Ian Cook, an investigator in a study on transcranial magnetic stimulation, briefly explains findings presented at APA. (Source: Psychiatric Times)MedWorm Message: Please have a look at this new site driven by MedWorm: The Breast Cancer Daily
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Brain implant allows paralysed woman to control a robot with her thoughts
The BrainGate implant can decode a patient's brain signals and instruct a robotic arm to reach and grasp objectsA woman who lost the use of her limbs after a devastating stroke nearly 15 years ago has taken a sip of coffee by guiding a robotic arm with her thoughts.The 58-year-old used a brain implant to control the robot and bring a flask of the coffee to her lips, the first time she had picked up anything since she was paralysed and left unable to speak by a catastrophic brain stem stroke.Doctors hailed the feat as the first demonstration of an implant that directly controls a reaching and gripping robotic arm by sensing and decoding the patient's brain signals.The work is part of a US clinical trial of an experimental implant called BrainGate that doctors see as a first step towards dev...
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DICOM Grid wins $5M in financing
Cloud-based imaging platform developer DICOM Grid has announced the close of (more) (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
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Ziltron launches radiology Facebook game
Ziltron said it has launched a Facebook game called X-Ray Ninja in an effort (more) (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
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VirtualScopics posts slight Q1 revenue increase
Computerized image analysis developer VirtualScopics reported a slight revenue (more) (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
