News tagged with ultrasound
Longer toes eyed as sprinters' edge
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Longer toes may give sprinters a leg up on other runners, according to a new study.
Healthy babies by the numbers
Nov 10, 2009 |
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When a fetus is smaller than expected for the number of weeks of pregnancy, due to associated problems like a poorly developed heart, health concerns as severe as brain damage can result.
Routine evaluation of prostate size not as effective in cancer screening (w/ Video)
Nov 10, 2009 |
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New Mayo Clinic research studied the association between prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels and prostate size and found that routine annual evaluation of prostate growth is not necessarily a predictor for the development ...
Newly revised guidelines for managing thyroid cancer published in Thyroid journal
Nov 05, 2009 |
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The American Thyroid Association has released new, revised Management Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer. The new guidelines are published in Thyroid, a peer-reviewed journa ...
GE unveils handheld ultrasound machine
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The future of ultrasound technology, as interpreted by General Electric Co., looks a bit like a flip phone crossed with an iPod.
Ultrasound Used for Better Breeding in Sheep
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ultrasound technology routinely used to accurately predict characteristics that indicate carcass yield and value in cattle and swine can also be used in live sheep, Agricultural Research Service ...
Graphics chips speed up medical imaging
Sep 04, 2009 |
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Beyond just jazzing up video games, one of the growing array of applications being found for the powerful graphics-oriented chips that Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices sell is in speeding up medical imaging, which can be ...
Researchers investigate ultrasound use to treat cancer
Aug 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s hard to imagine that cells and sound are related, but they are. According to one Ryerson University researcher, this relationship could mean big changes in cancer treatment, including ...
Wave of the future: Portable ultrasound scanners in the ER can save lives by expediting diagnosis
Aug 18, 2009 |
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All too often, a stethoscope and a doctor's touch are still the primary tools for diagnosing emergency-room patients. UC Irvine physician Chris Fox aims to change that.
Classifying 'clicks'
Jul 15, 2009 |
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A new way to classify sounds in some human languages may solve a problem that has plagued linguists for nearly 100 years--how to accurately describe click sounds distinct to certain African languages.
A rush of blood to the head -- anger increases blood flow
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Mental stress causes carotid artery dilation and increases brain blood flow. A series of ultrasound experiments, described in BioMed Central's open access journal Cardiovascular Ultrasound, also found that this dilatory reflex ...
What should a teenage girl do if she finds a lump in her breast?
Jun 25, 2009 |
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If a lump is found in the breast of an adolescent girl, she often will undergo an excisional biopsy.
First acoustic metamaterial 'superlens' created
Jun 24, 2009 |
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A team of researchers at the University of Illinois has created the world's first acoustic "superlens," an innovation that could have practical implications for high-resolution ultrasound imaging, non-destructive ...
Successful neurosurgery with transcranial MR-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound
Jun 22, 2009 |
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The Magnetic Resonance Center of the University Children's Hospital Zurich has achieved a world first break through in MR-guided, non-invasive neurosurgery. Ten patients have been successfully treated by means ...
Scientists discover ultrasonic communication among frogs
May 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA scientists report for the first time on the only known frog species that can communicate using purely ultrasonic calls, whose frequencies are too high to be heard by humans. Known as ...
