Scanners 'improve brain surgery'
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Specially-adapted scanners can be used to help physicians during brain surgery, a study shows.
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The scans do not appear to save lives and expose people to serious risks, researchers are reporting.
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Using computers to read mammograms can significantly speed up the detection of breast cancer, according to UK research.
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A person's optimism in the future seems to be controlled by a small front part of the mid-brain, according to a study that used brain imaging.
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Advances in imaging shed light on how the disease develops.
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A new study will look at the brains  of Alzheimer's patients to see if various scans can chart the  disease and if new drugs can slow it down, doctors said on  Wednesday.
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THURSDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) -- New ways of imaging the heart, the brain and the pelvis could lead to better diagnosis and treatment of illnesses such as heart disease, Alzheimer&#39;s disease and ovarian cancer.
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A new breast scan using a souped-up kind of X-ray called a CT scan may be more accurate than a standard mammogram -- and much less uncomfortable, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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MRI scans are far better than  mammograms at spotting a type of precancerous growth before it  becomes invasive breast cancer, a German researcher said on  Sunday.
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WASHINGTON - Medicare will start paying for specialized brain scans in some patients to help determine if they have Alzheimer&#39;s disease, the federal agency that runs the reimbursement program announced yesterday.
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A machine that assesses nerve fibers in the retina may offer a better way to measure the progression of multiple sclerosis, researchers said.
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American researchers say brain scans could provide an alternative and perhaps more reliable tool for catching people out in a lie than the standard polygraph test.
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Dec. 6, 2004 -- A mind-operated computer may one day help people with spinal cord injuries communicate. It may sound like science fiction, but such a device already exists.
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The e-mail came from the next room. "You gotta see this!" Jorge Moll had written. Moll and Jordan Grafman, neuroscientists at the National Institutes of Health, had been scanning the brains of volunteers as they were asked to think about a scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity...
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A team of US researchers has shown that controlling devices with the brain is a step closer. Four people, two of them partly paralysed wheelchair users, successfully moved a computer cursor while wearing a cap with 64 electrodes.
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Sensors will be used to relay data to medical files.
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NEW YORK  - Early tests are raising hopes  that a new device can help people who've injured their spinal  cord.