Does it really take an expensive brain scan to diagnose Alzheimer's? Not everybody needs one but new research suggests that for a surprising number of patients whose memory problems are hard to pin down, PET scans may lead ...
Jul 19, 2017
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Three case reports published in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrate the promise of cancer immunotherapy in gray zone lymphoma, a rare subtype that mixes characteristics of Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin forms of the ...
Jul 10, 2017
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A PET imaging probe developed by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators appears able to diagnose and stage pulmonary fibrosis—an often life-shortening lung disease—as well as monitor the response to treatment. ...
Apr 5, 2017
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Compared to white fat, brown body fat burns through energy at an extraordinary rate. However, until now the proportion of brown fat in humans was thought to be quite small. Now a study conducted by researchers at the Technical ...
Mar 1, 2017
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More imaging after thyroid cancer treatment identifies recurrence, but it does not always improve survival, a new study suggests.
Jul 20, 2016
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Using PET imaging to guide chemotherapy treatment significantly increases the number of people who go into remission and also decreases toxic side effects for people with advanced Hodgkin lymphoma, according to research conducted ...
Apr 11, 2016
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New research led by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, shows for the first time that PET scans can track the progressive stages of Alzheimer's disease in cognitively normal adults, a key advance in the ...
Mar 2, 2016
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Once you've made it through lung cancer treatment, you want to make sure you catch it early if it comes back again.
Feb 22, 2016
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MRI scans and other tools to detect and diagnose dementia are helpful but not definitive - according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
Sep 1, 2015
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New research presented during the 2015 annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) demonstrates that amyloid positron emission tomography (amyloid PET) scans of the brain provide clearer ...
Jun 8, 2015
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