RSS Feeds | Window On The Brain Cure For Epilepsy
August 31, 2007 08:00:00Action Medical Research has announced that a new MRI scanning technique could mean life-changing curative surgery for more people with epilepsy.The technique helps to pin-point the exact source of seizures in the brain and, where surgery is possible, the area may be removed. This can mean a future that is seizure free for those sufferers whose epilepsy cannot be controlled by drugs. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Emergency Medicine Foundation And GE Healthcare Partner To Advance Ultrasound Use In Emergency Medic
August 28, 2007 09:00:00The Emergency Medical Foundation (EMF) and GE Healthcare announced a one-year educational partnership to promote scientific knowledge and medical advancement of emergency medicine ultrasound. The goal of the one-year educational partnership is to support ultrasound use in emergency medicine. The partnership will include two ultrasound training days for emergency medicine residents. EMF is an organization funding innovative clinical and laboratory research. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Monitoring Babies Brains Using Light Scans
August 24, 2007 01:00:00Researchers hoping to better understand the development of the infant brain have long been stymied by a formidable obstacle: babies just dont want to sit still for brain scans."There have been some studies that obtained brain scans of infants while they were napping or sedated, but what wed really like to do is to scan their brains when theyre sitting on a parents lap, seeing new things, hearing new words and interacting with the environment," says Joseph Culver, Ph.D. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Atherosclerosis Detection Approaches Breakthrough
August 22, 2007 08:00:00A study led by a team of researchers at Oregon Health & Science University has demonstrated for the first time that molecular imaging with contrast-enhanced ultrasound and targeted microbubbles is effective in detecting at a very early stage inflammatory processes that lead to atherosclerosis. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| New chemically Sensitive MRI Scan May Bypass Some Invasive Diagnostic Tests In Next Decade
August 22, 2007 07:00:00A new chemical compound which could remove the need for patients to undergo certain invasive diagnostic tests in the future has been created by scientists at Durham University.Research published in the academic journal, Chemical Communications, reveals that this new compound could be used in a chemically-sensitive MRI scan to help identify the extent of progression of diseases such as cancer, without the need for intrusive biopsies. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| New Study Supports Efficacy Of Vagus Nerve Stimulation For Treatment-Resistant Depression
August 21, 2007 07:00:00Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) today announced the results of a functional MRI (fMRI) study examining the effects of VNS (Vagus Nerve Stimulation) Therapy(TM) for patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD). The study, led by Ziad Nahas, M.D., associate professor, MUSC Department of Psychiatry, appears in the August 2007 issue of peer-reviewed Neuropsychopharmacology. The results show that VNS Therapy modulates areas of the brain that control mood. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Normal Emotional Processing Breaks Down In Clinical Depression, Brain Imaging Reveals
August 20, 2007 14:00:00Brain imaging has revealed a breakdown in normal patterns of emotional processing that impairs the ability of people with clinical depression to suppress negative emotional states. Efforts by depressed patients to suppress their feelings when viewing emotionally negative images enhanced activity in several brain areas, including the amygdala, known to play a role in generating emotion, according to a report in The Journal of Neuroscience. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Is Ultrasound As Useful As We Think?, UK
August 17, 2007 22:00:00The usefulness of foetal nuchal thickness as a technique for attempting to diagnose Downs syndrome in obstetric ultrasound is overstated and reliance on this surrogate marker may result in the loss of normal babies.In a recent article published in Ultrasound, the Journal of the British Medical Ultrasound Society (Vol. 15, Number 3, 2007), Dr Hylton Meire raises the possibility that ultrasound is not as useful as has been suggested. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Health Related News From The American Chemical Society
August 17, 2007 01:00:00Toward prevention of a common complication of cataract surgeryA newly developed method for coating the intraocular lenses (IOLs) used in millions of cataract surgery procedures may prevent a common complication of cataract surgery, according to a report published in ACS Biomacromolecules, a monthly journal. Such surgery corrects the vision loss that occurs when the lens of the eye becomes clouded. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Study Of Brain Blood Flow May Lead To Improved Depression Treatment
August 12, 2007 08:00:00The usefulness of established molecular imaging/nuclear medicine approaches in identifying the hows and whys of brain dysfunction and its potential in providing immediately useful information in treating depression are emphasized in a study in the August Journal of Nuclear Medicine. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Kidney Research Boosted By $6M Grant
August 11, 2007 23:00:00The Indiana University School of Medicines Division of Nephrology has been awarded a five-year, $6 million George M. OBrien Kidney Research Center grant from the National Institutes of Health, one of just six such centers funded in the United States.The grant recognizes the imaging technology and expertise that has been developed at IU using advanced light microscopy systems to conduct research in kidneys and other organs in vivo, said Bruce Molitoris, M.D. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| MRI Finds Breast Cancer Before It Becomes Dangerous
August 11, 2007 07:00:00A study in the Lancet (vol. 370, 11 August 2007) could lead to a change of paradigm in the early diagnosis of breast cancer. It states that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is substantially more accurate than mammography in diagnosing very early stages of breast cancer . Up to now MRI was thought to be hardly suited for the detection of such ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) . Researchers at the University of Bonn have now come to a completely different conclusion. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| FDA Clears Unique Non-Invasive, Radiation-Free Pulmonary Imaging System
August 11, 2007 07:00:00Deep Breeze(TM), the leader in vibration response imaging (VRI(TM)) technology, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted 510K marketing clearance for the VRIXP(TM), a non-invasive, radiation-free pulmonary imaging system to use lung sounds to create dynamic images of the lungs. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Focused Ultrasound Effective In Treating Uterine Fibroid Symptoms, Study Says
August 10, 2007 16:00:00Focused ultrasound can be an effective treatment for uterine fibroid symptoms and might limit the need for subsequent procedures for at least two years, according to a study published in the Aug. 1 issue of the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, Reuters Health reports (Reuters Health, 8/6). [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
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