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3-D ultrasound scanner provides in-depth view of the brain
06-20-2007 · EurekAlert!Biomedical engineers at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering have adapted a three-dimensional ultrasound scanner that might guide minimally invasive brain surgeries and provide better detection of a brain tumor's location.
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People process information about financial loss through mechanisms in the brain similar to those used for processing physical pain, according to a new imaging study. The results could provide a new understanding of excessive gambling.
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- Mice provide important clues to obsessive-compulsive disorder
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- Solar energy conversion offers a solution to help mitigate global warming
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- Mayo Clinic study finds focused ultrasound treatment of uterine fibroids long term symptom relief
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- How brain injury leads to seizures, memory problems
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- New clinical trial results show how personalized medicine will alter treatment of genetic disorders
12-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
In the latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, Eric Hoffman, PhD, posits that the results of a clinical trial involving a new treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy provides a proof-of-principle for personalized molecular medicine. He writes that advances allowing for systemic delivery of such drugs and provide proof of no long term toxicity for recipients are necessary but will likely come in short order. Moving forward, FDA regulations will prove critical for appropriate labeling and marketing of such personalized treatments.
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