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    Small Cancer Risk Following CT Scans In Childhood And Adolescence Confirmed

    But the absolute excess for all cancers combined is low Young people who undergo CT scans are 24% more likely to develop cancer compared with those who do not, a study published today on bmj.com suggests. However the absolute excess for all cancers combined was low, at 9.38 for every 100,000...
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    Brain Scans Can Now Reveal Who You're Thinking About

    For the first time, scientists have been able to use data from brain scans to identify who patients are thinking about. More »
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    MRIs Reveal Signs Of Brain Injuries Not Seen In CT Scans

    Hospital MRIs may be better at predicting long-term outcomes for people with mild traumatic brain injuries than CT scans, the standard technique for evaluating such injuries in the emergency room, according to a clinical trial led by researchers at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital and...
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    Are CT Scans For Dizziness In ER Cost-Effective?

    Henry Ford Hospital researchers have found that conducting CT scans in the emergency department (ED) for individuals experiencing dizziness may not be cost effective. The researchers discovered that less than 1% of CT scans carried out in the ED showed a more serious underlying cause for...
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    Head And Neck Cancer Recurrences Detected Earlier By Routine Follow-Up Scans

    Routine use of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scans in head and neck cancer patient follow-up can detect local recurrences before they become clinically apparent and may improve the outcome of subsequent salvage therapy, according to a study presented at the...
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    New Research Could Lead To Enhanced MRI Scans

    New research from the University of Southampton could lead to enhanced MRI scans, producing brighter and more precise images, and potentially allowing the detection of cancerous cells before they cause health problems. Professor Malcolm Levitt of the University of Southampton, and co-workers...
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    Is there any Free Software that scans for Registry and Driver problems?

    Just curious if there are any good free ones out there that can tell you if there are registry or driver problems, corrupted drivers etc?
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    Gout Cases Missed By Traditional Tests Often Detected By CT Scans

    X-ray images known as CT scans can help confirm gout in patients who are suspected of having the painful condition but receive negative results from traditional tests, a Mayo Clinic study has found. The type of CT scan analyzed, dual-energy computed tomography, is also valuable for diagnosing...
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    CT Scans For Lung Cancer Screening May Be Beneficial In Detecting COPD

    Among men who were current or former heavy smokers, undergoing lung cancer screening with computed tomography (CT) scanning identified a substantial proportion who had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), suggesting that this method may be helpful as an additional tool in detecting...
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    Use Of PET/CT Scans As Prostate Cancer Staging Tool Supported By Trio Of Studies

    Recent studies have suggested that C-11 choline positron emission tomography/computerized tomography (PET/CT) scans can be utilized as a staging and potentially therapeutic tool in prostate cancer. The results of three studies, released during a meeting of the North Central Section of the...
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    Following Head Trauma, White Children Far More Likely To Receive CT Scans Than Hispan

    White children are far more likely to receive cranial computed tomography (CT) scans in an emergency department following minor head trauma than are African-American or Hispanic children, a study by researchers at UC Davis has found. The study findings do not indicate that CT scans are underused...
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    HELP! Can somebody help me find scans of this doujinshi?

    Hi! I've been looking almost everywhere on the internet for scans of this doujinshi called 'Love is Just Like Standing on Ice' by Bee*. It's a Hetalia RussiaXPrussia and it's in Chinese, (It's okay if It's not scanlated). I can only find a few pages on Zerochan.net, BUT I NEED MORE!! Thank...
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    Word Association: Princeton Study Matches Brain Scans With Complex Thought

    In an effort to understand what happens in the brain when a person reads or considers such abstract ideas as love or justice, Princeton researchers have for the first time matched images of brain activity with categories of words related to the concepts a person is thinking about. The results...
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    where can i downloadslamdunk scans for free?

    plz help me.. iwant to finish reading slam dunk manga.. can you tell me where can i download slamdunk manga scans for free? plzz help me...i can't read it online cuz the connection here is so slow..i can only download it so that i can read it completely..please help meeee
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    Where to download Naruto 531 Mangastream Scans?

    I really want to read Naruto 531 so badly. So, where to download Naruto 531 English Scans? Please guide me to find the best place other than Mangastream. I mean option for mangastream.
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    Searching for scans of a Hetalia doujinshi (Friedrich II. x Prussia)?

    Hello everyone, I've been searching for scans of this Axis Powers Hetalia doujinshi: "????????????????!" ("Hitsuji to oresama to oyaji de oyasumi da ze!") by mitsuha. It has been posted on the main livejournal community on 4th January 2011 and seems to have been taken down. This is the post...
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    One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans [Video]

    At the heart of the controversy over "body scanners" is a promise: The images of our naked bodies will never be public. U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner. These are those images. More »
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    Steps To Ensure CT Scans Do Not Overdose Patients With Radiation

    Reports have reached the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) of CT brain perfusion scans which exposed patients to excessive levels of radiation. After checking the equipment, the FDA reports they were working fine, without any excessive radiation risk for the patients "when properly used". The...
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    Huge Rise In Imaging Scans In Emergency Departments, Modest Rise In Diagnoses

    Between 1998 and 2007 there was a huge rise in medical imaging scan usage in emergency departments of hospitals in the USA, but without a comparable rise in diagnoses of life-threatening conditions or illnesses, experts report in an article published in the Journal of the American Medical...
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    Radiation Scans Cause Increased Scrutiny

    The Associated Press: "Americans get the most medical radiation in the world, even more than folks in other rich countries. The U.S. accounts for half of the most advanced procedures that use radiation, and the average American's dose has grown sixfold over the last couple of decades. Too much...
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