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Virtual Surgery Shows Promise in Personalized Treatment of Nasal Obstruction
April 18, 2011 A preliminary report suggests that virtual nasal surgery has the potential to be a productive tool that may enable surgeons to perform personalized nasal surgery using computer simulation ... > full story -
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Sharpened Focus: Improving the Numbers, Utility of Medical Imaging
April 14, 2011 The idea of probing the body's interior with radiation stretches back to experiments with X rays in the 1800s, but more than a century later, images taken with radiological scans still are not ... > full story -
Doctors Strengthen Case for High-Dose Radiotherapy Technique After Radical Prostatectomy
April 13, 2011 A widely-available yet expensive radiotherapy technique used to treat prostate cancer patients after surgery has promising benefits -- higher dose and less damage to the rectum and bladder -- ... > full story -
MRI May Help Detect Alzheimer's at Early Stage, Study Suggests
April 11, 2011 New research suggests that magnetic resonance imaging could help detect Alzheimer's disease at an early stage, before irreversible damage has ... > full story -
New Mechanism for Invasion of Tumorous Cells Discovered
April 11, 2011 Researchers have discovered a previously unknown mechanism whereby tumor cells invade normal tissues, spreading cancer through various ... > full story -
Demystifying Meditation: Brain Imaging Illustrates How Meditation Reduces Pain
April 5, 2011 Meditation produces powerful pain-relieving effects in the brain, according to new research. For the study, healthy volunteers who had never meditated learned a meditation technique known as focused ... > full story -
Emergency Department CT Exams of Children Have Increased Substantially
April 5, 2011 Computed tomography examinations of children in hospital emergency departments increased substantially from 1995 to 2008, according to a new study. Researchers said the findings underscore the need ... > full story -
Safer CT Scanning for Children Developed in Sweden
April 4, 2011 A research team in Sweden has developed a method that allows the lowest possible dose of radiation for children having a CT scan while still obtaining good image ... > full story -
Frequent CT Scanning for Testicular Cancer Surveillance Associated With Secondary Malignancies
March 30, 2011 Cancer researchers have found that older men with early-stage testicular cancer who opt for surveillance with regular CT scans over lymph node removal are at greater risk for secondary ... > full story -
Alzheimer's-Like Brain Changes Found in Cognitively Normal Elders With Amyloid Plaques
March 30, 2011 Researchers using two brain-imaging technologies have found that apparently normal older individuals with brain deposits of amyloid beta -- the primary constituent of the plaques found in the brains ... > full story
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