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NIH highlights PET study in Parkinson’s disease

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National Institutes of Health (NIH) has highlighted a study that shows cardiac PET scans can help identify people at risk for Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia. Significantly, the research supports a “body first” progression model for the diseases, the researchers suggested. “We

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PET reveals patient responses to new Alzheimer’s disease drug

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Patients with less tau pathology on PET scans may respond better to treatment with the new Alzheimer’s disease drug donanemab, according to an October 25 news report in the journal Practical Neurology. Research suggests that the accumulation of these proteins is a continuous process that starts decades before the onset of symptoms.

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Penn Medicine to Present Multiple Clinical Trial Results at 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting

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Key Presentations Penn researchers will present results from clinical trials, including a national cooperative group study for esophageal cancer, a Phase I study using a new CAR T cell therapy for re-treatment in patients with lymphoma, and a multicenter study of a combination therapy for ovarian cancer. Also, Lynn M. and Mitchell L.

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ISMRM: MRI shows promise for helping to diagnose PTSD

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SINGAPORE - MRI shows promise for helping to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a presentation delivered May 7 at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting. In the past, there have not been particular visual abnormalities on conventional MRI that could help diagnose PTSD.

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PET/MRI may help diagnose fevers of unknown origin

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PET/MRI imaging shows promise in diagnosing fevers or inflammation of unknown origin and may have advantages over PET/CT, according to a study published January 3 in the European Journal of Radiology. Inflammation of unknown origin (IUO) is defined as prolonged and perplexing inflammation with temperatures below 38.3 °C.

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DeepHealth to Present Latest Results from AI-powered Screening and Diagnostic Programs at the European Congress of Radiology 2024

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one of the leading providers in healthcare radiology informatics, has today announced that the latest results from its AI-powered radiology screening and diagnostic programs will be presented at this year’s European Congress of Radiology ( ECR 2024 ) in Vienna, Austria, between February 28 – March 03.

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Multi-Institutional Study Data Presented at ASTRO 2023 Builds Upon Growing Evidence of GammaTile for Patients with Brain Tumors

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The findings add to the growing evidence of the efficacy and safety of its FDA-approved GammaTile Therapy, and were presented during an Oct. 2 poster presentation at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO) 65th Annual Meeting, ASTRO 2023 , being held this week in San Diego, CA. Amsbaugh; Catherine S. Kim (2023).