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Finally, says Rankin, the issue may be one of screening: because ultrasound monitoring of obese patients is much more difficult than the monitoring of thinner women, it could lead to more missed cases of deformities like neural-tube defects. "We know that it is much harder to get good visibility of the fetus in scanning women who are obese, and more babies may be born with spina bifida and other abnormalities in these women," says Rankin. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...help remove foreign objects like shrapnel from soft tissue. Shiels' method was less invasive than surgery, which often requires an incision of 2 to 3 inches and can lead to damage in surrounding tissues or organs; the new method requires a quarter-inch incision and uses a combination of ultrasound and fluoroscopy - live X-ray - to carefully guide forceps to the object, steering clear of the body's vital structures during extraction. The scar is also much smaller, "about the size of a freckle," Shiels says. (See pictures from an X-ray studio...
...suburb of Palmetto Bay, the early voter tended to be an elderly white Republican male. Four years later, the early voter enduring the long lines that snake around the Coral Reef branch is more apt to be a younger, female, African-American Democrat, like Tonia Birgin, 34, a hospital ultrasound technician. "This being Florida, you never know what's going to happen with an election," says Birgin, holding an umbrella to shield her from the midday tropical sun during a two-hour wait this week outside the library. "This one's too important not to make sure my vote gets...
Lipson, who started the publicly traded company 27 years ago to sell equipment like ultrasound machines to China's then generally ill-equipped public hospitals, says she first approached officials about a private-model health-care experiment in the early 1990s. The result was Beijing United Family Hospital and Clinics, a joint venture between Chindex and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Today Chindex runs two hospitals and five outpatient centers. Additional hospitals in Beijing and Guangzhou are set to open in 2010, and two more outpatient clinics will open this year...
...will have direction, and if surprises come up, I can handle them,” Derse said. Karthik Ranganathan, another recipient and a graduate of the University of Mumbai in 1999, worked as a research scientist at a company called PocketSonics, helping to create an easier-to-use ultrasound system. “The question I faced was how do I take a clunky $200,000 machine that isn’t very portable and make it into a small, portable, low-cost device,” Ranganathan said. “I got started down this road...