Hawaii had the lowest rate of lumbar spine MRIs performed for lower back pain between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023, according to CMS data released Feb. 19.  CMS measures the percentage of lumbar ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a potential new way to monitor the progression of high-grade gliomas, one of the most ...

Gadolinium is a toxic rare-earth metal, and traces of it may stay in your brain ... the contrast agent. “If the patient is ...

(CNN) — Heavy drinking is associated with increased risk of a type of brain injury linked with memory and thinking problems. That’s according to a new study in which researchers defined heavy ...

“Many of the most promising new therapies are antibodies, which cannot efficiently reach the brain without a shuttle to get them across the [blood brain barrier],” Austin added. “This ...

Researchers invite healthy volunteers (age between 18 and 40) to participate in a brain physiology MRI study using a dedicated 3T scanner at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The 45-minute session ...

and even the brain. “The worst disease caused by MRI contrast agents is nephrogenic systemic fibrosis,” Dr. Wagner explained. “People have succumbed after just a single dose.” The condition causes ...

This paper presents a novel two-stage approach for brain tumour segmentation in T1-weighted contrast-enhanced MRI (CE-MRI) scans, leveraging both YOLO(you only look once) and Modified U-Net. In the ...

Peter Zandstra, CM, is the director of the University of British Columbia’s School of Biomedical Engineering and a fellow in the Multiscale Human program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced ...

can block harmful brain enzymes linked to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) without affecting healthy ones. Senolytics are compounds that help clear out damaged or “zombie” cells that build up with ...

Key Laboratory of Theoretical Organic Chemistry and Function Molecule, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, Hunan ...