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...highly specialized X-ray machines to take multiple, finely layered pictures of the heart and surrounding blood vessels. Sophisticated computer programs sort the data to generate amazingly detailed, three-dimensional images like the ones that alerted Fackelmann's doctors to his hidden heart problem. Advances in other techniques like MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) have astonished physicians with the clarity of details now available to them on the inner workings of the heart...
...Rachel Weisz, who plays Tessa with an ornery passion that complements Fiennes' implosive delicacy. "It's an incredible shot, almost a minute long, and you can see a thousand different thoughts cross his mind. There's a transparency to him." Indeed, an interior transparency. Subtly, he shows us an MRI of a decent man's heart at the moment it breaks...
...Administration, prodded by employers and under pressure to contain costs and improve service, the medical community is finally--and rapidly--plugging into the new world of electronic health records, in which your personal health information shows up wherever you do--at your doctor's office, the emergency room, the MRI machine, even your home. "Resistance is at an all-time low," says Neal Patterson, CEO of Cerner, an e-health company based in Kansas City, Mo. Cerner and Allscripts are racking up quarter after quarter of double-digit sales growth...
...MRI scans of students "newly and madly" in love show that intense romance has less to do with the parts of the brain involved with sex than with those of its reward system. Fueling the throes of love is dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is also involved in addiction. --By David Bjerklie
...Coleman found the lure of sudden stardom thrilling and discomfiting. "My wife was managing an MRI facility and making good money in Dallas," he says. "We're not kids. Moving to Nashville, making a record--there's a lot of uncertainty. I was excited but cautious." Whether some of that caution crept into Loco Motive is hard to know, but anyone expecting controversy will be surprised. Troy calls himself "the last of the Brohicans" on the Kid Rock-ish Beast on the Mic and asks the ladies to "get low" and "make it clap" on the willfully stupid (and thoroughly...