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Monthly Archives: September 2016
What does a radiologist do?
Your radiologist is a medical doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating disease and injury through the use of medical imaging techniques such as x-rays, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), fusion imaging, and ultrasound. Because some of these imaging techniques involve the use of radiation, adequate training in and understanding of radiation safety and protection is important.
Your radiologist has graduated from an accredited medical school, passed a licensing examination, and completed a residency of at least four years of unique postgraduate medical education in, among other topics:
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Brain lesions found in monkey fetus injected with Zika virus
The Zika virus has been declared a global health emergency, leaving medical researchers around the world scrambling for more information about the devastating condition that can lead to a variety of birth defects.
Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle inoculated a pregnant pigtail macaques with the Zika virus. Within 10 days, the primate’s fetus developed brain lesions similar to those observed in some human babies born to Zika-infected mothers.
“Our results remove any lingering doubt that the Zika virus is incredibly dangerous to the developing fetus and provides details as to how the brain injury develops,” Kristina Adams Waldorf of the University of Washington School of Medicine said in a statement.
To read the full report, click on the link below:
http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nm.4193.html
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Curb Your Eating, Help Your Brain Fight the Urge to Splurge
Ever tried to eat just one potato chip, or take just one bite of chocolate cake? It may feel impossible. A little nibble triggers an urge to eat more. Some people feel driven to keep eating to the point where the food’s no longer enjoyable. You know the resulting weight gain will harm your health. So why do you keep eating when it’s not in your best interest?
Out-of-control behaviors around food can look and feel remarkably similar to an addiction to drugs and other substances. In fact, imaging studies have shown that addictive drugs can hijack the same brain pathways that control eating and pleasurable responses to foods. NIH-funded researchers are closely studying the biology of overeating to try to find new ways to help people curb these out-of-control behaviors.
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Achoo! The Anatomy of a Sneeze
Just in time for cold and flu season, MIT researchers are showing you exactly what a sneeze looks like in slow motion.
Lydia Bourouiba, of the MIT Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory, managed to film a real live sneeze at 1,000 frames per second.
Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the sneeze cloud shows how quickly sneeze droplets can travel.
Bourouiba reported that large droplets tended to land within 1 to 2 meters (about 3 to 6 feet) and that small droplets could get as far as 6 to 8 meters away (19 to 26 feet). She found that the sneeze itself transitions into a “freely evolving turbulent puff cloud” as it travels through the air.
All the more proof that you should absolutely cover your nose and mouth when you sneeze.
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Fall in love with a job you don’t even like, in three steps
(CNN) — More than half of Americans find their job unsatisfactory, according to an annual survey released last month by the Conference Board research group. The nation has been hovering around the halfway mark of job dissatisfaction since at least 2000.
Think of the people you work with every day. Half of them do not like being there. Maybe you’re one of them, living a life that Henry David Thoreau would have described as one of “quiet desperation.”
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Labor Day Weekend Travel: What You Need to Know
(NEW YORK) — Labor Day weekend is here and people all over the country will be celebrating the unofficial end of summer. Beaches, parades, camp sites and football games. But everyone knows the worst part: getting there.
The airlines will be in high gear as they are expecting 2.23 million air travels this weekend, a 4% increase from 2015’s Labor Day weekend, according to trade organization Airlines for America. In response, the airlines will be offering almost 100,000 more seats.
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