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Chemistry World May 25, 2007 Victoria Gill |
EU Legislation Would Prevent Medical MRI Scans The limits set by an EU directive designed to reduce adverse health effects on workers exposed to electro-magnetic fields could keep patients from undergoing valuable magnetic resonance imaging scans, warn Australian researchers.  |
Chemistry World October 9, 2007 Victoria Gill |
MRI Scanners Get Five-Year Reprieve in Legal U-Turn The European Commission will delay the implementation of the EU Physical Agents Directive. The decision follows pressure from scientists who have been lobbying to avert what they called a 'serious threat' to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) posed by the directive.  |
IEEE Spectrum April 2013 Neil Savage |
Path Found to a Combined MRI and CT Scanner Omni-tomography could add together the advantages of several medical imaging technologies  |
Chemistry World November 4, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
Moving the goalposts for MRI A new class of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) contrast agents developed by scientists in the UK is promising to deliver clearer images in less time.  |
Chemistry World November 21, 2006 Victoria Gill |
Side-Effect-Free Chemotherapy Scientists have now developed an enzyme with the potential to eliminate the extreme fatigue, sickness and hair loss that result from this cell damage and strike fear into the hearts of cancer patients.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Samuel K. Moore |
Teaching Machines About Madness Software rivals doctors at distinguishing among different kinds of depression and schizophrenia  |
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Your Routine Radiation Dose The radiation risk from a single CT, or computed tomography, to an individual is small, but some doctors are worried about the buildup over time.  |
Chemistry World October 8, 2007 James Mitchell Crow |
MRI Sensitivity Boosted by 10000 Times A technique that significantly boosts the sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging is on the verge of clinical trials which, if successful, could allow doctors to assess the effects of cancer drugs on a tumor within hours.  |
Managed Care January 2005 Maureen Glabman |
Health Plans Strain To Contain Rapidly Rising Cost of Imaging PET, CT, MRI -- these and other imaging technologies are valuable but costly. Aetna, Cigna, and a few other plans lead in clamping down on unnecessary use.  |
Chemistry World February 14, 2011 Rachel Cooper |
Small and sensitive nanoparticles A new highly sensitive nanoparticle contrast agent for imaging in the body stays in the bloodstream longer and is better at targeting tumors than other nanoparticle contrast agents, say Chinese scientists.  |
Chemistry World May 24, 2006 |
Detecting Brain Damage Before it Happens An NMR technique under development could help the victims of stroke by detecting brain damage early enough to provide treatment.  |
HBS Working Knowledge January 8, 2007 Jim Heskett |
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction? The growing use of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) devices for studying decision making means that in 2007 we may hear a number of striking conclusions based on studies involving a small number of brain scans.  |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2011 |
Europe's Transparency Directive Revisited The effect on pharma of the EU's Transparency Directive has been overly constraining, but will the mooted revisions offer any room to maneuver?  |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2008 Sarah Houlton |
Animal Humanity The new EU directive looks to reduce, refine, and eventually replace animal testing.  |
Chemistry World October 31, 2014 Ned Stafford |
Plea for EU to act on GM from plant scientists 21 top European plant scientists have issued an open letter demanding that the EU take action to ensure that they and other scientists are able to pursue genetically modified plant research.  |
Chemistry World February 4, 2011 Harriet Brewerton |
Transplant tracking Magnetic nanoparticles could be used to track neural stem cells after a transplant in order to monitor how the cells heal spinal injuries, say UK scientists.  |
Managed Care May 2007 |
Self-Referral Persists Despite Stark II Law Loopholes in federal and state laws that curb physician referral to diagnostic imaging providers in which they have a financial stake (self-referral) are allowing physicians to stretch how they are paid and for what.  |
Nurse Practitioner November 2010 Dreadin & Mancuso |
Diagnostic breast evaluation: When to refer and what the results really mean Diagnostic breast imaging is an important tool in evaluating abnormal physical examination findings and assessing incomplete screening mammographic results.  |
The Motley Fool April 29, 2011 Arundhati Parmar |
Medtronic Stands to Gain From Likely CMS Reversal on MRI-Safe Pacemakers Is this a big opportunity for Medtronic?  |
Chemistry World April 5, 2007 Lionel Milgrom |
Nanoparticles Make Better MRI Images Manganese oxide nanoparticles have been used as contrast agent for magnetic resonance imaging, allowing researchers to see inside living brains in the same detail as dissected tissue under a microscope.  |
Chemistry World July 17, 2012 Harriet Brewerton |
Pinning down cancer US scientists have synthesized pin-shaped nanoparticles with magnetic and optical properties. The nanoparticles could be used for magnetic resonance imaging, early detection and photothermal therapy of cancer and other diseases.  |
Chemistry World August 12, 2008 |
EU Plans to Share More Science Funds and Facilities The new 'Joint Programming' initiative aims to reduce the duplication of research efforts by scientists in EU member states through shared multinational funding pots that would be open to scientists from all participating countries.  |
Chemistry World December 1, 2014 |
Power to the people As belts are tightened all over Europe, scientists have been caught up by politicians' ardor for austerity.  |
Chemistry World September 25, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
New MRI protein probe Researchers in Japan have invented a new way to detect the presence of proteins in cells and tissues by magnetic resonance imaging.  |
Chemistry World October 19, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Great Leap Forward for MRI Imaging Magnetic resonance imaging could one day be used to track individual molecules in the body, thanks to a dramatic increase in the technique's sensitivity.  |
Bio-IT World September 2005 Alan Louie |
Molecular Imaging: Smarter and Better The expanding opportunity for molecular imaging (MI) technology to significantly improve drug development has not gone unobserved. Several drug development companies have added imaging capabilities to their arsenal of drug development tools.  |
Chemistry World June 18, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Micro-magnets promise colour MRI scans Microscopic magnets could one day brighten up grey-scale magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, according to scientists in the US.  |
Chemistry World July 2, 2013 Jeanne Therese Andres |
Mapping receptors in the brain Scientists from the UK and Germany have developed new compounds that target and bind to brain proteins linked to serious neurological disorders.  |
Chemistry World July 27, 2011 Sean Milmo |
UK government sets aside 1000 places for top researchers The UK chemistry sector has given a mostly cool response to a government scheme to attract top chemists, chemical engineers and other scientists from outside the EU, while tightening restrictions on immigration.  |
Chemistry World April 1, 2014 Melanie Britton |
Paul Lauterbur and the invention of MRI This book, written by Lauterbur's wife, Joan Dawson, is an interesting and often touching account of his life and of the discovery and development of MRI.  |
Chemistry World June 12, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
A New Way to Look at the Brain Researchers have for the first time scanned the human brain with positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging simultaneously. The work introduces the possibility of obtaining both highly specific functional data together with anatomical information in a single scan.  |
BusinessWeek April 14, 2011 Rachel Layne |
GE and Siemens: Less May Mean More (Profits) The medical gear makers see an opportunity for their information technology units as hospitals are pressured to improve efficiency and curb waste  |
Chemistry World October 17, 2014 Ned Stafford |
European scientists rally to protest jobs and funding crisis Scientists throughout Europe, frustrated with inadequate funding for research and a lack of jobs, are banding together to demand that policymakers at national and EU levels take action.  |
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov |
Groupthink A new study from Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute found that most meetings actually make us dumber.  |
Chemistry World March 20, 2009 Jon Cartwright |
Medical Probes Get Easy to Spot Scientists in the US have created nano-scale medical probes that are visible via both magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and optical microscopy.  |
Chemistry World March 6, 2012 Simon Perks |
Special Treatment for Scientists Under Immigration Rules Scientists traveling to work in the UK will be exempt from rules on settling in the country.  |
The Motley Fool April 23, 2007 Jack Uldrich |
IBM Envisions a Small, Profitable Future A new MRI capability holds great promise for long-term investors.  |
Managed Care November 2007 Tom Reinke |
New Imaging Controls Strict, But May Be Easier on Doctors Preauthorization procedures for costly new imaging technologies aim to help doctors learn the rules to avoid denials.  |
Chemistry World July 30, 2007 James Mitchell Crow |
Cell Transplant Hope for Diabetes Sufferers Iron-based 'magnetocapsules' of insulin-producing cells could help doctors use cell transplants to treat type I diabetes.  |
Chemistry World January 25, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Catalysis Probed with MRI Scientists have developed a way of peering into a microreactor to watch gases react on a solid catalyst.  |
Chemistry World June 19, 2014 Ned Stafford |
EU plan to let member states decide on GM The European council of environment ministers would allow member states to go it alone and ban the cultivation of genetically modified crops.  |