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...performed multiple operations on the prime minister, told the Jerusalem Post. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, the director of the Jerusalem hospital where Sharon is being treated, said that Sharon is slowly improving. “His condition is still critical but stable, and there is improvement in the CT picture of the brain,” Mor-Yosef said, according to the Associated Press. Doctors said they would begin bringing Sharon out of his coma this morning, which will enable them to evaluate his condition better. Within the Harvard community, there was uncertainty about what the end of Sharon?...
...press release. “We really need a multi-centered approach so that further studies can be carried out with a larger pool of patients,” Smith said. While advances in stroke treatments such as tPA and in clot-identifying technologies such as CT scans are positive strides, there is another important factor in fighting strokes, said Walter J. Koroshetz, director of MGH Stroke Service and co-author with Smith. He said that educating patients about new technologies is as important as the developments themselves. According to Koroshetz, “The main theme here is that...
Hometown: Greenwich, CT...
Meanwhile, there is still an issue of professional turf left to resolve. High-tech imaging--particularly CT scanning--has long been the purview of radiologists, many of whom don't take kindly to cardiologists encroaching on their territory. After all, it has happened before. Radiologists used to perform lots of cardiac catheterizations but have pretty much given up that technique to heart specialists, in large part because they were simply outnumbered. As for who is best at reading cardiac CT scans, cardiologists argue that they have a better understanding of the heart's anatomy and function, while radiologists point...
...vessels and stiffen them, laying the foundation for heart disease. Getting one's calcium score is as simple as getting a quick injection of a contrast agent in the arm and a zap from an ultrafast X ray, either by electron beam computed tomography (EBCT) or by multidetector CT. Studies show that in every age group people with higher calcium levels have a greater risk of heart attack than do people of the same age with lower scores...