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Coronary calcium scoring can help doctors make the right recommendation about statin therapy

Your doctor tells you that you need a statin to lower your cholesterol and reduce your heart attack risk. You don't like taking medicine and your friend tells you that he had achy muscles after he started a statin. You wonder if you should listen to your doctor or go without the medicine.

6 Jul 2020

Moffitt develops tool to identify lung cancer patients at high risk for poorer outcomes

Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in both men and women in the United States. It is also the leading cause of cancer death among both sexes, making up nearly 25% of all cancer deaths nationwide.

1 Jul 2020

Sugar consumption is linked with larger fat deposits around the heart, abdomen

Sugar consumption is linked with larger fat deposits around the heart and in the abdomen, which are risky for health.

29 Jun 2020

Artificial neural network can provide information about lung cancer severity

Computed tomography (CT) is a major diagnostic tool for assessment of lung cancer in patients. Now NIBIB-funded researchers at Stanford University have created an artificial neural network that analyzes lung CT scans to provide information about lung cancer severity that can guide treatment options.

25 Jun 2020

Pangolin version of SARS-CoV-2 can cause COVID-19-like illness

The results of a recent multinational research endeavor, currently available on the bioRxiv preprint server, display the biological framework of SARS-CoV-2-related coronavirus in pangolins and reveal striking similarities to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in humans, but also show that it can be transmitted vertically to the fetus.

23 Jun 2020

First National Preclinical Imaging Centre established in Ireland to enhance medical research

A new National Preclinical Imaging Centre which will provide enhanced research data to inform new clinical trials that aim to improve patient outcomes, has been awarded funding of €3.4 million under the Science Foundation Ireland Research Infrastructure Programme.

16 Jun 2020

$Low physical function after hip fracture increases risk of bone deterioration$

Low physical function after hip fracture increases risk of bone deterioration

Low physical function and low muscle mass after hip fracture increased the risk for accelerated bone deterioration in older hip fracture patients.

15 Jun 2020

$Low physical function and low muscle mass increase risk for bone loss after hip fracture$

Low physical function and low muscle mass increase risk for bone loss after hip fracture

Low physical function and low muscle mass after hip fracture increased the risk for accelerated bone deterioration in older hip fracture patients. Acknowledgement of the risk factors is important for bone health and overall recovery.

15 Jun 2020

Overactive enzyme causes an inherited form of high blood pressure

A Turkish family from a village near the Black Sea first caught the attention of medical researchers in the early 1970s.

11 Jun 2020

Experts discover a rare heart bone in chimpanzees

Experts from the University of Nottingham have discovered that some chimpanzees have a bone in their heart, which could be vital in managing their health and conservation.

10 Jun 2020

Health care providers urged to stop hydroxycholoroquine use for COVID-19

The sacred oath taken by physicians during graduation from medical school to "First do no harm," the first words of the Hippocratic Oath, provides a strong impetus for a commentary just published in The American Journal of Medicine.

4 Jun 2020

AI can be used to expand the role of chest X-ray imaging in COVID-19 diagnosis

According to a recent report by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers, artificial intelligence (AI) should be used to expand the role of chest X-ray imaging -- using computed tomography, or CT -- in diagnosing and assessing coronavirus infection so that it can be more than just a means of screening for signs of COVID-19 in a patient's lungs.

3 Jun 2020

Novel 3D imaging technique could prove to be valuable for wide range of studies

A collaboration between Colorado State University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign resulted in a new, 3D imaging technique to visualize tissues and other biological samples on a microscopic scale, with potential to assist with cancer or other disease diagnoses.

2 Jun 2020

SFU and Providence Health Care collaborate on AI tool to aid quicker COVID-19 diagnosis

Simon Fraser University researchers and Providence Health Care are collaborating on a new artificial intelligence tool that will help diagnose COVID-19 quicker.

2 Jun 2020

Guidance for assessing bone density and microarchitecture in vivo with HR-pQCT

The use of high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) to assess bone microarchitecture in clinical studies has continued to grow rapidly. Thus, there is an urgent need for guidance and consensus on the methods for and reporting of HR-pQCT imaging so that different studies can be compared to each other.

2 Jun 2020

New models use computer vision and AI to identify COVID-19 in X-rays

Students at Cranfield University have designed computer models that can identify COVID-19 in X-rays.

27 May 2020

Lung ultrasound use in COVID-19 patients

One point of discussion is the best approach to imaging infected patients, because computed tomography (CT) scanning, the gold standard method for chest imaging, can spread infection due to the need to transport the patient to specialized facilities.

24 May 2020

Does abdominal fat affect COVID-19 outcomes?

As the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be slowing down in some parts of the world slightly but accelerating in others, scientists are investigating the role played by a host of factors that might impact the final outcome. A new study published on the preprint server medRxiv* in May 2020 examines the role of abdominal fat (visceral obesity, VO) in severe COVID-19.

21 May 2020

Mount Sinai researchers are first to use AI model to analyze COVID-19 patients

Mount Sinai researchers are the first in the country to use artificial intelligence (AI) combined with imaging, and clinical data to analyze patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

19 May 2020

TUM researchers develop innovative x-ray method for lung diagnostics

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich have developed an innovative x-ray method for lung diagnostics, which they now plan to test in one of its first applications for diagnosis of the respiratory ailment COVID-19 caused by Coronavirus.

15 May 2020