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...rowers were chosen to represent endurance exercise and the football players were chosen to represent strength exercise. Endocardiography studies—ultrasound pictures of the heart’s structure and function—were taken at the beginning of the training...
...ovary release AMH. The number of these follicles is a good indicator of a woman's fertility, since they house maturing eggs. The more follicles a woman has, the better her chances of conceiving - and the higher her levels of AMH. Currently, IVF clinics rely on an ultrasound to count follicles, but these images can be clouded by intestinal tissue, or, in some cases, they may not be powerful enough to detect every remaining follicle...
Others seek images inside their tummies. Jennifer Harakal, 30, who went to Visual Miracles in Wayne, N.J., for an enhanced ultrasound that gave her a 3-D look into her womb, says the close-up portraits and videos helped her bond with her daughter. The process also gave her time to reflect on what it meant to be pregnant--something moms who commission pregnancy art say they treasure. "When the baby's born, everyone dotes on how cute he is," says Sandra Leong, 37, whom Loomis photographed pregnant with each of her sons, now 2 months and 3 years...
Vital signs at Philips' new health-care unit are strong. Imaging technology such as X-rays and ultrasound scanners as well as devices for monitoring patient health helped generate almost a quarter of Philips' sales in 2006; operating profits at the professional medical division soared 17%, to $1.1 billion...
...vast societal upheaval. This week, the United Nations Population Fund said that some 25,000 expected baby girls went "missing" - were not carried to term - in Vietnam last year. The implication is that some expectant parents are aborting unwanted girls once they learn the sex of the fetus through ultrasound technology. Government statistics and a separate U.N. survey in 2006 put the ratio of newborns at 110 boys to every 100 girls - higher than the "natural" rate of 105 to 107 boys for every 100 girls...