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...throwing shoulder—long tight and often sore—was throbbing. X-Rays and MRIs from the fall had come back clean, but finally at the end of Harvard’s season an arthroCT scan had revealed a frayed labrum. His shoulder would hurt until he had surgery...
...Epileptic" mostly takes place during the late 60s and into the 70s, a time before MRIs and a greater awareness of brain disease. Faced with a medical establishment that could do little but shrug its shoulders, the Beauchard family explores every remote cure, from macrobiotics to mediums to exorcism. "I wanted to tell the story of our family and how the illness of my brother changed our family. Our life was different. We were a normal family in the 60s in France and this illness changed our lives," says David B. His near total recall of events that took place...
Should women at high risk for breast cancer be getting MRIs? A new Dutch study of 2,000 women showed that magnetic resonance imaging detected 80% of tumors, while mammograms found only one-third. MRIs cost a lot more, however (roughly $1,000 vs. $100), and they're not perfect. MRIs produced false alarms 10% of the time, which meant three times as many unneeded biopsies. They also missed cancers that mammography caught. Still, the case for MRIs is strong enough for the American Cancer Society to recommend that women at high risk consider having both MRIs and mammograms...
...diagnosis: hydrocephalus. Doctors cut into his skull on Jan. 11, 2001. The operation was a success, draining the fluid that had collected on his brain. Subsequent MRIs have given Zappala a spotless bill of health...
...MRIs had already shown that the brain volumes of kids with ADHD are 3% smaller than those of unafflicted kids. That concerned researchers since nearly all those scans had been taken of children already being medicated for the disorder. Were the anatomical differences there to begin with, or were they caused by the drugs? Attempting to answer that, Dr. F. Xavier Castellanos of the New York University Child Studies Center took other scans, this time using only kids with ADHD and comparing those who were taking medication with those who were not. Reassuringly, he discovered that they all shared...