Election coverage: Various initiatives collecting signatures at polls

Tallahassee Democrat - Florida county election supervisors were warned just last week about an “intermittent” glitch in their optical scan voting It makes my heart hurt that someone would honestly do that but that’s the problem with closed primaries in a two party Read more

Cambodian girl has rare brain tumor removed in 20-hour surgery

Miami Herald - 12-year-old Cambodian girl is recovering after surgeons here successfully removed a lemon-size tumor from beneath her brain. A CT scan showed she had a tumor filling her head, said Gioia Michelotti, the school’s director who accompanied Buntheep to Click here for more

Cut down on chocolates to stop kidney stones

Daily Mail - The condition is usually diagnosed with a scan. Most stones are small enough to pass out in the urine but if the stone is Kidney stones are usually made up of a salt called calcium oxalate - the more calcium and oxalate your urine contains, the Click here for more

TIA (Mini Stroke) Symptoms: A Trip to the ER

MedicineNet.com - rhythms and a CT scan of the brain is done, since small areas of bleeding can also cause stroke and TIA. After these results return as normal, a carotid ultrasound is obtained to ensure that there is no critical narrowing of the carotid artery More

Startups Rush to Pave Way for Web Video

FOX News - Two other startups, Eyealike Inc. and Visible Measures Corp., are tackling other problems close to the heart of content providers. Eyealike of Bellevue, Wash., will be demonstrating software that can scan videos submitted to Web sites to see if they Continue

Suspect charged in shooting that hurt 2

Anchorage Daily News - A CT scan showed the bullet “entered the right side of his face shattering the jaw bone and lodging in the left side of scrub she was wearing over her thermal and used it to put pressure on his face, fearful the wound was close to the carotid artery Click here for more

From the examination table, musings about mortality

St. Petersburg Times - in my head (as were images of the room) as I lay in a darkened hospital room having an ultrasound taken of my carotid artery. I’m The nurse took me back to a cubicle while the ER physician phoned the on-call doctor, who ordered an EKG, CT scan and Continue

Proton Beam Therapy, an Option Against Prostate Cancer

US News and World Report - Considering the fact that I missed virtually no work due to my ability to have a “virtual” office while in Loma Linda, I have to include that savings to my company. More importantly, I suffered none of the side effects caused by surgery, nor was I Continue

Cut down on chocolates to stop kidney stones

Daily Mail - The condition is usually diagnosed with a scan. Most stones are small enough to pass out in the urine but if the stone is Kidney stones are usually made up of a salt called calcium oxalate - the more calcium and oxalate your urine contains, the More

In race for cash, Jones leads all

Knoxville News Sentinel - I just want to add one more thing, My heart goes out to Joan Berry and her family. I don’t have a clue as to the amount of mailed his certified yesterday, same as Broyles. Amy’s was available, while Scott’s was not. These may take a while to scan Full story

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