Pet Scans

Alzheimer's and PET Scans: When a Predictive Diagnosis Is Not Necessarily a Good Thing

Lloyd Glauberman, Ph.D. | Posted 03.06.2012

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Lloyd Glauberman, Ph.D.

The use of drug treatment for Alzheimer's and CTE is critical. Without treatment catching up to diagnostic technologies, the waiting rooms for PET scans screening for the first tangled threads of these diseases will be essentially empty.

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Researchers Find A Way To Detect Narrowing Of Heart Valves Early

www.theatlantic.com | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Heart, Aortic-Valve, Medical Research, Heart Valve Surgery, Heart-Valves, PET Scans, Heart Health, Aortic Sclerosis, University of Edinburgh, Fifty News

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland have demonstrated early detection of aortic stenosis using positron emission tomography (PET) s...

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Cancer Be Not Proud

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cancer, Colonoscopy, Sigmoidoscopy, Cat Scans, MRIs, PET Scans, Michael Douglas, David Letterman, Healthy Living News
Gary S. Chafetz

Cancer! If you haven't had it, the prospect terrifies you. If you have had it, it can unnerve and shatter you. Yet the dreaded disease may have an un...

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Third Screen: An Interview with Dr. Oliver Sacks

Vickie Karp | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Parkinson's Disease, Freud, Neuroscience, Dr. Oliver Sacks, Happy Birthday., Robin Williams, Stroke, MRI Brain Scans, PET Scans, Beth Abraham Hospital, Alzheimer's, The Brain, Yahoo!, Awakenings, Style News
Vickie Karp

Music had this amazing ability to allow [transfixed patients] to move and speak and think. It was very startling. I've seen it numerous times since, but it still astounds me.

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