1. CCTA Shows FAmily History Predicts Obstructive CAD
(Cardiology/Cardiology)

In a study using CCTA by Henry Ford Hospital researchers, people with a family history of early signs of CAD are at higher risk of developing obstructive CAD and plaque in their arteries. Researchers analyzed ...

2. C-COM Mobile Antennas Deployed for Mammography
(Modalities/Mammography)

... its success, other health providers may adopt similar technology in future. "We are very pleased to be able to assist women in rural New Zealand to get screened for early signs of cancer through our technology. ...

3. Add Noise, Improve Mammogram Accuracy
(Modalities/Mammography)

... was to identify clusters of micro-calcifications in breast tissue. These early signs of precancerous conditions average only 0.3 mm in size and offer only subtle contrast with surrounding tissue. In addition ...

4. Ultrasound Patterns Helps Predictions for Melanoma
(Communities/CT)

... of peripheral perfusion, was an early sign of a small number of cancer cells present. “The early signs are signs of first disruption of the normal lymph node architecture by an early state metastasis. ...

5. Recommendation - Dual Screening Tests for Heart Defects in Athletes
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... to best detect early signs of life-threatening heart defects in young athletes, screening programs should include both popular diagnostic tests, not just one of them. Theodore Abraham, an associate professor ...

6. Combining Calcium Scoring and SPECT gives Precise Read on Heart Risk
(Communities/PET)

Adding CACS testing in patients with a normal PET scan to better identify those at high long-term risk for cardiac events, in whom an earlier focus on aggressive risk factor modification and other medical ...

7. Ovarian Cancer Screening Not Catching Early Disease
(Communities/Abdominal Pelvic)

... screening tests for ovarian cancer fail to catch early signs of the disease and often result in unnecessary surgery, said researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer ...

8. Study: Whole-Body CT Increases Cancer Risk
(Communities/CT)

... health at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, said the intent behind his research was to understand the risk-benefit balance for elective full-body CT screening. Screening for early signs ...

9. Wellstar raises $250,000 in new financing
(Company News/Wellstar International, Inc)

... will provide the company adequate initial funding to start the roll-out of its thermal imaging systems that detect early signs of pressure ulcers among patients that are bed-ridden. However, the company ...

10. Trimira LLC to Introduce First-of-Its-Kind Device To Aid Dentists & Doctors in Detecting Oral Cancer
(Company News/Trimira LLC)

Growing at Alarming 11% Rate, Oral Cancer is Overlooked, Yet More Deadly Than Breast, Cervical, or Prostate Cancers Without a truly effective and affordable device to aid in early detection, dentists, ...

11. Therapy reduces risk of joint damage in hemophiliacs
(Imported/Imported)

... a role in the development of joint damage. It is speculated that subclinical bleeds may be prevented through prophylactic infusion. Early signs of joint damage were detected in the study using state-of-the-art ...

12. Camera in a pill offers cheaper, easier window on your insides
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

... current technology. Its first use on a human, scanning for early signs of esophageal cancer, will be reported in an upcoming issue of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. "Our technology is completely ...

13. Intensive training of young tennis players causes spinal damage
(Imported/Imported)

... of the ten pars lesions in nine players were complete fractures. Twenty three players had early signs of diseased facet joint (arthropathy), causing moderate permanent degeneration in nine of them. Facet ...

14. Stress cardiac MRI highly accurate in CAD detection
(Communities/MRI)

... for the detection of early signs of ischemia, and notably its noninvasive nature." "Stress MRI appears to be most useful in the patients who would most benefit from noninvasive imaging -- those with intermediate ...

15. Soft skull in neonates caused by maternal vitamin D deficiency
(Imported/Imported)

... D deficiency in utero." At one month, 63 infants still showed evidence of craniotabes. Hand x-ray showed early signs of rickets in 68 babies. Metabolic abnormalities at one month were more common among ...

16. Heading circulatory disease off at the pass
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

... cardiologists can noninvasively detect early signs of heart disease by imaging blood flows during exercise stress tests. No equivalent stress test has been available for PAD. Lead investigator Jonathan ...

17. Nanoparticle could help detect many diseases early
(Imported/Imported)

... the area, the doctor would know that the patient may be presenting early signs of a disease in that area of the body. The Georgia Tech and Emory nanoparticles penetrate deep tissue and operate at a high ...

18. New imaging technique reveals fatty hearts in pre-diabetics
(Imported/Imported)

...  The technique detects fat accumulation in cells of the beating heart in a way no other clinical method can, the researchers said, and may provide a way to screen patients for early signs of heart disease ...

19. Less education may delay recognition of Alzheimer's
(Imported/Imported)

... The longer one has it, the worse the symptoms become. This suggested to the researchers that those with lower education levels may be slower to notice the early signs of disease, only going to see a specialist ...

20. Honeywell tests brain-wave system
(Imported/Imported)

Honeywell International Inc, looking to speed up how fast humans analyze intelligence data like aerial photographs, is testing a system that monitors analysts' brains for early signs of electrical activity ...