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Cure For Reading Glasses May Be In View
May 23, 2006 It's 10 p.m., and you've finally relaxed into your favorite comfy chair to browse the day's newspaper. Patting your shirt pockets you realize there's a problem, and now you're not relaxed anymore. ... > full story -
Baylor Researchers Develop 'Bubble' Technique For Potential Treatment Of Type I Diabetes
May 22, 2006 Baylor Researchers have developed a novel technique using microscopic "bubbles" to deliver insulin genes to the pancreas, the organ that produces the body's insulin. This approach is a major step in ... > full story -
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New Treatment Allow Patients To Return To Pre-Injury Activity
May 4, 2006 Ultrasound-guided, intra-tendonous injection of a dextrose solution is a very effective treatment for certain chronic tendonoses in the leg, reported ... > full story -
Ultrasounds Show Mothers' Drinking Shrinks Fetal Brain
April 26, 2006 Routine ultrasounds show that heavy drinkers who continue to imbibe after learning they are pregnant may carry fetuses with reduced skull and brain growth compared to those of abstainers or quitters, ... > full story -
Nanotechnology May Find Disease Before It Starts
April 24, 2006 Nanotechnology may one day help physicians detect the very earliest stages of serious diseases like cancer, a new study suggests. It would do so by improving the quality of images produced by one of ... > full story -
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Newer Form Of Cardiac Imaging Providing Better Look At Heart
April 10, 2006 Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is a newer development in echocardiography providing doctors with better imaging of the heart. In this procedure, a probe is inserted into the esophagus that ... > full story -
3D Ultrasound Device Poised To Advance Minimally Invasive Surgery
March 30, 2006 Three-dimensional ultrasound probes built by researchers at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering have imaged the beating hearts of dogs. The engineers said their demonstration showed that the probes ... > full story -
Ultrasound And Algae Team Up To Clean Mercury From Sediments
March 29, 2006 Ultrasound and algae can be used together as tools to clean mercury from contaminated sediment, according to an Ohio State University study. This research could one day lead to a ship-borne device ... > full story -
Pregnant Women Should Not Ignore Breast Cancer Symptoms
March 28, 2006 Ultrasound provides a safe and accurate method of detecting breast cancers in pregnant women, as well as assessing response to chemotherapy, according to a study appearing in the April issue of ... > full story -
Intensive Statin Therapy May Partially Reverse Plaque Build-Up In Arteries
March 26, 2006 A recent study demonstrates, for the first time, that very intensive cholesterol lowering with a statin drug can regress (partially reverse) the buildup of plaque in the coronary arteries. This ... > full story
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