Exercise can dramatically alter the rate of mental decline in elderly people with early signs of dementia, the Daily Express reported today.
The news reports are based on a small study that compared how different types of exercise may affect the menta…
“Soundwaves could help 95% of prostate cancer patients … without affecting sex life,” the Daily Mirror reported today. Its story comes from a small study that looked at an experimental treatment using high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) to t…
The Daily Express says a “breakthrough” new test for Alzheimer’s could “pave the way to early diagnosis years before the devastating symptoms appear”. Its front-page news story says that scientists are hailing the new test as a potential way …
In the March 22 edition of Neuron, researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, reveal that a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique based on whole-brain tractography that maps the “communi…
A team of scientists led by Johns Hopkins researchers have found that more than four in 10 people considered at high risk for hereditary pancreatic cancer have small pancreatic lesions long before they have any symptoms of the deadly disease. Moreover,…
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful tool and far more accurate and comprehensive than standard X-Rays. Unfortunately, it’s also rather expensive. New research shows that adding MRI analysis to standard breast cancer screening, could be cost …
According to a study published in the journal Radiology, researchers from Cancer Research UK’s Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Center at the University of Cambridge, have determined that the best method to monitor how women with late-stage ovari…
The February issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, carries a report this month on the Mediterranean diet. It appears that a Mediterranean-style diet reduces the burden of white matter hyperintesity volume. White matter hyp…
Innovative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques that can measure changes in the microstructure of the white matter likely to affect brain function and the ability of different regions of the brain to communicate are presented in an article in th…
One of the largest studies to investigate lumbar spine disc degeneration found that adults who are overweight or obese were significantly more likely to have disc degeneration than those with a normal body mass index (BMI). Assessments using magnetic r…
