New automated breast ultrasound system automatically acquires volumes and offers intelligent clinical applications. Siemens Healthcare recently introduced the Acuson S2000 Automated Breast Volume Scanner (ABVS), the first multi-use ultrasound breast system that automatically acquires volume images of the breast.
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28Feb
Tags: Health
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28Feb
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) applauds President Obama’s healthcare reform priorities set forth in his February 26, 2009, budget blueprint, particularly the President’s promise to double funding for cancer research and close loopholes that are weakening the Medicare program.
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28Feb
The media has recently reported the arrest of individuals associated with a group known as Final Exit Network (FEN) on charges of assisting a suicide in Arizona, and attempting to engage in similar activity in Georgia. The cases reported in the media this week involving FEN ought not be confused with the choice of aid in dying.
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28Feb
In an effort to permit community pharmacies to negotiate fairer contracts that benefit their patients, Reps. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) have introduced H.R. 1204, the Community Pharmacy Fairness Act of 2009. They are joined by 32 other bipartisan original sponsors.
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28Feb
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., USA – In a legal victory that preserves the patient-physician relationship and promotes competition, an Arkansas state court ruled today that Baptist Health, Arkansas’ largest hospital system, acted improperly by inappropriately restricting hospital admitting privileges and interfering with the continuity of patient care. The ruling in Baptist v.
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28Feb
The UK Autism Foundation has urged the government to take decisive action on autism. An Autism Bill was debated in the House of Commons in Westminster on Friday 27th February, it now moves on to the next stage, it cleared the first hurdle by 131 votes to 25. Cheryl Gillan MP’s bill called for an end to the postcode lottery to public services. The UKAF supported the bill along with 15 UK charities.
Tags: Autism
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28Feb
Young men who have served in the British Armed Forces are up to three times more likely to take their own lives than their civilian counterparts, research published today (March 3) has found.
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Tags: Research
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28Feb
UT Southwestern Medical Center’s primary adult teaching hospital has cut its rate of preterm births by more than half in the past 15 years, even as national rates are rising, researchers have found. The drop at Parkland Memorial Hospital, from 10.4 percent in 1988 to 4.
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28Feb
Spine surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and other U.S. centers are reporting that artificial disc replacement works as well and often better than spinal fusion surgery. The two procedures are performed on patients with damaged discs in the neck.
Tags: U.S.
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28Feb
Seasonal allergies follow the growth cycle of plants. Beginning in early March, the common allergies come from tree pollen, and by late April or early May, grass begins to pollinate. These allergies last until July and then the next round begins with ragweed and other weeds start in August. Allergy symptoms are often seen through your eyes, nose, and throat.
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28Feb
Tax time not only affects your wallet, but it can affect your mental health. Trying to collect all of the information needed and then filling out the tax returns can cause stress. In addition, many people wait until the last second to try to file and this can cause even more anxiety. However, this year, things may reach an even greater level to depression.
Tags: Depression, Health, Stress
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28Feb
Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have made a major genetic discovery that could lead to the effective treatment for sufferers of craniosynostosis – a severe childhood bone disease. Craniosynostosis develops in the womb and affects one in every 2500 live births.
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28Feb
Jennifer Derebery, M.D., physician at the House Clinic and leading expert on the treatment of allergies, believes there a several options available to people with significant symptoms before starting allergy shots.
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28Feb
At her 21st birthday, Julie Moore understood better than most what “having your whole life in front of you” meant. Not because she could finally order a legal drink, but because her whole life had just depended on noticing one tiny freckle. The freckle, it turned out, was melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. Tanning booths and sun worshipping had left their mark early.
Tags: Cancer
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28Feb
Contrary to conventional medical wisdom, a new study by NYU Langone Medical Center researchers shows that healthy elderly patients with severe to profound hearing loss can undergo a surgical procedure to receive cochlear implants with minimal risk.
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28Feb
New findings from the nation’s largest study of diabetes in youth paint an alarming picture of disease on the rise among every racial and ethnic group studied.
Tags: Diabetes
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28Feb
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) adapts so well to the body’s defense system that any successful AIDS vaccine must keep pace with the ever-changing immunological profile of the virus, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the University of Oxford in England.
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28Feb
A receptor known to be active in bone metastases, but previously unexplored in primary bone tumors, is a potential therapeutic target in osteosarcoma, investigators from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the March 1 issue of Cancer Research.
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28Feb
A national leader in incision-free surgery performed through natural orifices, the Center for Scarless Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center is now offering patients with severe, chronic acid reflux disease a unique incision-free procedure called TIF, or transoral incisionless fundoplication.
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28Feb
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing $100,000 in response to the heavy rainfall on February 15 and 16 in Columbia. Due to the rains, the Mira River in southwestern Colombia overflowed, causing extensive flooding in Tumaco municipality, Narino Department in Colombia, which left at least one dead and affected an estimated 31,250 people.
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