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...Minn. She lay belly down in a machine designed by an Israeli company, InSightec, for three hours the first day and almost four hours the second day. The device focuses high-frequency ultrasound beams at targeted spots of fibroid tissue, heating them to 180?. Doctors use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to track the volume and temperature of the fibroids after each zap. No incisions are needed. The treated fibroids shrink and become dead tissue, which the body later reabsorbs...
Smith wore earplugs to block the grinding sound of the MRI and clutched a shutoff button in case the heat got too intense. She never used it. She felt only a little back pain from lying still for so long. Afterward, she "felt immediate relief from the heaviness," she says. "I was amazed." She's symptom free 15 months later...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can be used to detect acute appendicitis in pregnant women, according to a study conducted by a team of Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors. Untreated acute appendicitis can be fatal to both the mother and fetus. Acute appendicitis is a rare condition, occurring in less than one percent of pregnant women and in about the same percentage of the general population, said Ivan Pedrosa, an assistant professor at HMS who worked on the study published in Consumer Health Daily. According to Pedrosa, many women experience abdominal pain while pregnant. Though the likelihood of a woman having...
...keep the economy strong. A vibrant economy and a healthy middle class are essential to funding for the arts and humanities, general scholarship programs like Pell grants, and social programs for the poor and elderly. Inventions created by government-funded scientists, such as the laser, the MRI, and the Internet, have beneficial effects on wide-ranging parts of society. To say that science scholarships will have no positive societal impact is ludicrous...
...Beal was scheduled to undergo an MRI this past Monday...