Health
How can we help patients overcome MRI anxiety?
Fear and anxiety about undergoing an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan is a very real issue among patients.
Nov 24, 2014
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Page 40 - News tagged with mri scan
Neuroscience
Major brain pathway rediscovered after century-old confusion, controversy
A couple of years ago a scientist looking at dozens of MRI scans of human brains noticed something surprising. A large, fiber pathway that seemed to be part of the network of connections that process visual information showed ...
Nov 17, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
'Unacceptable' UK variation in waiting times for radiology results
A 'chronic' shortage of radiologists is causing wide variation in waiting times for x-ray and scan results, experts claim.
Nov 13, 2014
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Diabetes
T2DM-linked hypoglycemia doesn't impact brain pathology
(HealthDay)—Hypoglycemia related to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) doesn't appear to impact brain pathology, according to a study published online Sept. 29 in Diabetes Care.
Oct 24, 2014
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Study seeks non–surgical solutions to knee arthritis
University of Queensland researchers are seeking solutions that could save billions of dollars by helping almost half a million Australians avoid the need for knee joint replacements.
Oct 2, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Predicting the future course of psychotic illness
University of Adelaide psychiatry researchers have developed a model that could help to predict a patient's likelihood of a good outcome from treatment – from their very first psychotic episode.
Oct 1, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New tools for back pain prevention
European researchers and clinicians are working hand in hand to unveil the mechanisms leading to back pain, likely the most widespread chronic pathology among humans. Until recently, it was assumed that disc degeneration ...
Jun 4, 2014
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Cardiology
Predicting which stroke patients will be helped—or harmed—by clot-busting treatment
Johns Hopkins researchers say they have developed a technique that can predict—with 95 percent accuracy—which stroke victims will benefit from intravenous, clot-busting drugs and which will suffer dangerous and potentially ...
May 19, 2014
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Medical research
Key milestone for brown fat research with a ground-breaking MRI scan
The first MRI scan to show 'brown fat' in a living adult could prove to be an essential step towards a new wave of therapies to aid the fight against diabetes and obesity.
Apr 17, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
3-D MRI scans may offer better way to predict survival after chemo for liver tumors
In a series of studies involving 140 American men and women with liver tumors, researchers at Johns Hopkins have used specialized 3-D MRI scans to precisely measure living and dying tumor tissue to quickly show whether highly ...
Mar 26, 2014
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