News tagged with scan
Stop & Shop Supermarket Chain Goes Hi-Tech
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 29, 2008 |
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Your next trip to Stop & Shop may be little more than just placing items into your wagon and paying for them at the cashier's checkout counter.
When it comes to intelligence, size matters
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 25, 2009 |
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A collaborative study led by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University has demonstrated a positive link between cognitive ability and cortical thickness in the brains of healthy ...
Study gives more proof that intelligence is largely inherited
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 17, 2009 |
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They say a picture tells a thousand stories, but can it also tell how smart you are? Actually, say UCLA researchers, it can.
Research backs legend of man-eating bird
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A huge flesh-eating eagle that became extinct in New Zealand only 500 years ago was an efficient hunter that could attack prey 10 times its size, UNSW research has found, lending credibility ...
Protect your vote -- avoid election machine errors
Nov 03, 2008 |
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Of all the conceivable problems that could lead to a miscount Election Day, there's one possibility that voters can do something about – avoid making election machine-related errors, says a University of Maryland ...
Hospitals offer new take on medical mistakes
Mar 08, 2009 |
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All Donald Platt wanted was an apology. The tumor on his kidney was the size of a baseball by the time his cancer was detected in a CT scan - five years after his doctor misdiagnosed his symptoms and failed to order the right ...
Belgian says he was alert but mute for 23 years
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- For 23 torturous years, Rom Houben says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out.
fMRI scans used in murder trial sentencing
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans have been used, possibly for the first time, in the sentencing phase of a murder trial in Chicago in the US.
Your eyes may be a window to heart disease
Sep 28, 2009 |
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For centuries eyes have been seen as windows to the soul. But medical researchers now believe the eyes may also offer vital clues to your risk of heart disease and stroke.
Experts warn over health check brain scans
Sep 03, 2009 |
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A new study has voiced concern about the growing market for brain screening tests, which people can buy as part of a general health MOT.
Type of lung cancer screening used to detect disease may impact 5-year survival rates
May 04, 2009 |
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Dr. Hisao Asamura and his team of researchers at The National Cancer Center Hospital in Tokyo, Japan examined the records of 2,281 patients who underwent lung cancer resection surgery between 2000 and 2006. The study was ...
Rare prehistoric pregnant turtle found in Utah
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Paleontologists say a 75-million-year-old turtle fossil uncovered in southern Utah has a clutch of eggs inside, making it the first prehistoric pregnant turtle found in the United States.
Neural modeling helps expose epilepsy's triggers
Feb 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A brain scan of a person experiencing an epileptic seizure looks like the Great Plains during an early evening in midsummer. Fierce electrical storms pop up seemingly at random, proliferate ...
iPhone the body electric: New 'apps' visualize human anatomy
Oct 08, 2009 |
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University of Utah researchers created new iPhone programs - known as applications or "apps" - to help scientists, students, doctors and patients study the human body, evaluate medical problems and analyze ...
Typhoon Morakot's cloud top extent doubled in size in one day
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Satellite imagery over the last two days has shown Typhoon Morakot to be a monster, and over the last two days, NASA satellites have confirmed the typhoon doubled its size!
