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Forbes - This agreement is timely as the recently announced positive outcomes of two major clinical trials are widely expected to accelerate the adoption of CTC (also known as virtual colonoscopy) as routine primary screening for colorectal cancer. Toshiba More

Osteoporosis & Golf

Cybergolf - If the scan reveals that you are “overdrawn” from your calcium bank account, there are numerous medications available to slow, and even reverse, the loss of calcium. Sometimes, a patient’s bone calcium level with be found to be below normal, but not More

New scan can find heart risk

Herald News - Heart attacks often come with no warning. A relatively new imaging technology called coronary calcium scoring can scan the heart in just minutes and may provide some advance notice of problems that could lead to heart attacks. This new and exciting Continue

Mike Tindall counts blessings after scare

Daily Telegraph - That scan comes in three weeks and before then he has been told to do nothing more than walk his Bull Terriers and Labradors finished up in Hammersmith Hospital where surgeons diagnosed that he had torn a hole in his liver and had punctured a lung. Click here for more

County’s new hospital opens soon

Corydon Democrat - They also received an up-close look at the 64-slice CT Scan, MRI machine and steam autoclave that is used to sterilize instruments, as well as a sneak peak into areas, like one of three operating rooms, that will be off limits to the general public Click here for more

News briefs

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - The scanner, manufactured by General Electric, can scan the entire body in about 10 minutes and provide comprehensive views of the heart and coronary arteries in five seconds. Click here for more

If passion’s growing, the brain’s glowing

Newark Star-Ledger - The newest sign of love is the brightened spot of a brain scan. Scientists can now use the latest technology to understand Each gazed at a photograph of his or her beloved as well as a photograph of a neutral acquaintance while undergoing MRI. The More

Patients With Stroke and Obstructive Sleep Apnea at Increased Risk for

Medscape News - This study was supported by grants from the Swedish Heart and Lung Foundation, the Swedish Society of Medicine, the Swedish correlating to focal brain involvement for more than 24 hours, with no other cause based on a computed tomography scan of More

Hospital scanner goes to the heart of the matter

Union - The scan is quick, noninvasive of the body and painless, according to Chris Braun, the hospital’s director of it’s The procedure gives patients a coronary calcium score, Braun said. High calcium scores in the heart are indicative of possible Continue

January 2008

Weekly Standard - Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a vocal opponent of lawmakers pet projects who has sometimes clashed with party leaders on the issue A GOP leadership aide, who said the task force would have a wide jurisdiction, noted it includes members from the Continue

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