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User: cassels Topic: Medical Scanning
Category: PET Scan
Last updated: Feb 27 2013 24:01 IST RSS 2.0
 
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Research links 'hysterical' illness to brain abnormalities 26.2.2013 CANOE News: Health
A new study has found that people with psychogenic diseases &mdash; formerly known as &apos;hysterical&apos; illness because they have severe symptoms with no physical explanation &mdash; have abnormalities in the brain that might help explain the phenomenon.
The New Old Age Blog: Debate Over Brain Scans and Alzheimer's 13.2.2013 NYT > Money & Policy
An expert panel convened by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services concluded that data supporting use of PET scans to diagnose Alzheimer's was weak.
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Should Medicare Pay For Alzheimer's Scans? 31.1.2013 NPR News
A drug used in brain scans to help doctors detect clumps of protein associated with Alzheimer's disease was approved by the Food and Drug Administration last year. Now Medicare officials are weighing whether to cover it.
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Utah’s Intermountain analysis: Can hospitals cut waste without rationing care? 28.1.2013 Salt Lake Tribune
by Kirsten Stewart The Salt Lake Tribune Published Jan 27, 2013 05:26PM MDT It’s the new managed care motto: cheaper care is better care. But a trio of studies by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare — often cited as a model of efficiency and cost control — shows it’s more complicated than that. “Everyone is running around and saying value equals quality divided by cost,” said John C. Ruckdeschel, medical director of Intermountain’s Oncology clinical program. “But if you accept cost as the denominator, you would always assume doing the cheaper thing is better, an... ...
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New Test Could Be NFL's Breakthrough in Battle Against Concussions 23.1.2013 Wired Top Stories
New Test Could Be NFL's Breakthrough in Battle Against Concussions
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Study Suggests PET Scan May Identify C.T.E. in Living Patients 23.1.2013 IHT: Health/Science
Researchers thus far have to use tissue obtained posthumously to diagnose the degenerative brain disease that has bedeviled those who have sustained repeated hits to the head.
Brain scans offer new view of NFL concussions 23.1.2013 MSNBC

Researchers at UCLA are peering into the brains of a few NFL players and think they may be able to track the brain damage that can lead to Alzheimer's-like memory loss.Researchers at UCLA are peering into the brains of a few NFL players and think they may be able to track the brain damage that can lead to Alzheimer's-like memory loss.
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Brain scan to help living NFL players? 23.1.2013 CNN: Top Stories
An insidious, microscopic protein that has been found in the brain tissue of professional football players after death may now be detectable in living people by scanning their brains.
Q & A: How Are Images From X-rays and Ultrasounds Stored and Transmitted? 15.1.2013 NY Times: Science
A standard format for capturing, reviewing, storing and transmitting images is called Dicom, for digital imaging and communications in medicine.
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Explaining a killer's brain: Science seeks clues 23.12.2012 MSNBC
Genetics alone almost certainly cannot explain what went wrong when 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, two classrooms full of small children and teachers and then himself on Dec. 14, experts say.
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MPR News photos of the week 7.12.2012 Minnesota Public Radio: News
Students remember Gordon Parks, the Union Depot in St. Paul is set to reopen and a police officer killed on-duty is laid to rest. All that and more in our photos of the week.
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Prostate cancer scanning: Photos from inside Mayo's lab 4.12.2012 Minnesota Public Radio: Science
When treating cancer patients who suffer a second bout of the disease, doctors know catching the recurrence soon is crucial to the patient's chances of survival. It's especially been a challenge with prostate cancer. That's why a new Mayo Clinic scanning technique that helps doctors detect recurring prostate cancers months or even years earlier than before, is receiving considerable attention.
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The False Alzheimer's Diagnosis 28.8.2012 WSJ: Health
More than 100 conditions, from vitamin and hormone deficiencies to rare brain disorders, can mimic Alzheimer's disease, experts say. Even common medications can cause similar symptoms.
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Failure Of Lilly Drug Is Latest Alzheimer's Setback 25.8.2012 NPR Health Science
It's the latest setback in a field marked by failure. Earlier this month, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson said they were dropping development of a similar experimental drug after big clinical studies showed it wasn't working.
Scientists See Progress In Alzheimer's Despite Growing List of Drug Failures 8.8.2012 NPR News
Pfizer's research on an experimental drug that attacks plaques in the brain has been discontinued. But scientists say they're hopeful that new treatments that attack a specific protein in plaques will have better success.
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Opinionator | Anxiety: Jokers Wild 16.7.2012 NY Times: Editorials
Since my first panic attack I have lived with the threat of these E-tickets on the Anxiety Express.
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Gene Mutation Offers Clue For Drugs To Stave Off Alzheimer's 12.7.2012 NPR News
The mutation is rare but it appears to protect some people from developing the disease. The finding is an encouraging sign for drug researchers looking for medicines that have a similar effect in the brain.
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Vancouver could become the Silicon Valley of medical isotopes 8.7.2012 Vancouver Sun: News
In British Columbia, many people envy Silicon Valley for its world-renowned computing and electronics industries. Vancouver, however, could soon be the Silicon Valley of medical isotopes and nuclear medicine.
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Alzheimer's patient Dr. Arthur Rivin won't give in to the disease 2.7.2012 LA Times: Science
Arthur Rivin, former UCLA professor of medicine, is convinced his lifestyle approach is working to beat down his Alzheimer's. That may be good enough for us all.

"Hello Mr. Lopez, I would very much like to meet with you. I think you will find that I have some pertinent things to say."


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MRI and CT scan use spikes, study finds 13.6.2012 MSNBC
MRI and CT scan use spikes, study finds
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