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Brain Imaging Methods For Studying Natural Human Behavior Being Developed By UC San Diego Scientists

The Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience at UC San Diego will create a new imagining process to study human body/brain dynamics of subjects engaged in normal activity in ordinary room environments. The work, to be performed under a four year, $3.4 million research grant from the U.S.

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Use Of Medical Scans In Patients Who Experience Pain Might Prompt Unnecessary Increase In Health Care Costs

The New York Times on Tuesday, as part of an occasional series titled “The Evidence Gap,” examined how medical scans, which have become “more sensitive and easily available than ever,” are “increasingly finding abnormalities that may not be the cause of the problem for which they are blamed.

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Ultrasound Screening Helps Prevent Stroke In Children With Sickle Cell Disease

Screening with an ultrasound machine has proved highly successful in preventing stroke among children with sickle cell disease, by identifying children who are then preventively treated with blood transfusions.

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