NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that while mammographic breast density decreases with age, there remains a substantial proportion of older women with dense breasts —…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The ability to detect major fetal anomalies by ultrasonography is reduced in pregnant women who are obese or diabetic, according to researchers at…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Overall, women who were treated for cancer during childhood are about 20% less likely to become pregnant than their unaffected sisters, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) results in “excellent 3-year local control and survival rates,” researchers report based…
Talissa A. Altes, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology at University of Virginia Health System, discusses the use of hyperpolarized gas MRI to study asthma. References and Resources de…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Annual ovarian cancer screening with transvaginal ultrasonography and CA 125 usually misses early-stage disease while it often results in unneeded surgeries, according to…
Jason Sheehan, MD, PhD, Co-Director Riverside – UVA Gamma Knife, University of Virginia Health System, discusses gamma knife surgery for the treatment of pituitary adenoma. References and Resources…
Jason Sheehan, MD, PhD, Co-Director Riverside – UVA Gamma Knife, University of Virginia Health System, discusses gamma knife surgery for the treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy and other…
Jason Sheehan, MD, PhD, Co-Director Riverside – UVA Gamma Knife, University of Virginia Health System, discusses gamma knife surgery for the treatment of malignant brain tumors, a procedure…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In most infants who undergo fluoroscopy guided lumbar puncture (LP), the procedure will introduce red blood cells into the cerebrospinal fluid, which can…