Providing patients with direct access to their imaging test results could improve patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes. However, physicians are concerned that it could lead to increased patient anxiety and unrealistic demands on doctor time, as per a research studyin the recent issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (www.jacr.org)........
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People with severe motor impairments often require an alternative access pathway, such as a binary switch, to communicate and to interact with their environment. A wide range of access pathways have been developed from simple mechanical switches to sophisticated physiological ones. In this manuscript we report the inaugural investigation of infrared thermography as a non-invasive and non-contact access pathway by which individuals with disabilities can interact and perhaps eventually communicate.
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A mammogram is an X-ray picture of the breast. Doctors use a mammogram to look for early signs of breast cancer.
]]>New York Times columnist Tara Parker-Pope writes, “Many patients do not understand why screening for cancer might be risky. But for every 1,000 healthy women who undergo annual mammograms, about half will have a stressful false positive within 10 years, and 180 of them will undergo a biopsy.” (1)
]]>This is happening in large measure in offices that have purchased thermography equipment from a manufacturer and then rely solely on the manufacturer for training and education in medical thermography. Often this training is biased towards the particular instrument purchased or to corner cutting to provide more patient services per day at the expense of quality control. Unhappily, this comes at great cost to the patient, and often to the chagrin of the unwary thermography technician or physicians who have bought into these mis-deeds.
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Each week, millions of users around the world search for online health information. As you might expect, there are more flu-related searches during flu season, more allergy-related searches during allergy season, and more sunburn-related searches during the summer. You can explore all of these phenomena using Google Insights for Search. But can search query trends provide the basis for an accurate, reliable model of real-world phenomena?
With such advanced technology at our disposal it is quite possible that outbreak areas can be identified before hand, and the proper equipment and staff set up ready to screen for potential carriers. By using infrared thermal cameras, such as the Read more...
Breast thermography is a clinical diagnostic procedure which uses highly specialized infra red cameras to measure the heat coming from the body, in this case, the breast. Thermography has been cleared for this purpose for many years by the US FDA (United States Food and Drug Administration) and in the past two years (2001-2002) many new doctors and technicians have entered the field.
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