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Speedier tests for cancer planned
(BBC 26/09/2009)
GPs in England are to get speedier access to diagnostic tests to help spot less clear-cut cancer cases, Prime Minister Gordon Brown will pledge. Patients will get key tests within two weeks of seeing their GP, he will tell the Labour Party conference on Tuesday. It will mean faster reassurance for patients and could save thousands of lives by picking up cancers earlier, he is expected to say. Late diagnosis has been blamed for poorer cancer survival in the UK.
NHS hits waiting time targets for patient scans
(The Scotsman 26/05/2009)
NHS Lothian has hit new government targets on key diagnostic tests such as MRI and CT scans. No patients were asked to wait more than six weeks for tests, and many received their scans well before the Scottish Government's waiting time target of six weeks. The board of NHS Lothian will be given a performance report on a number of measures at its meeting tomorrow. The statistics cover the period up until the end of March 2009.
Coroners get MRI body scan option
(BBC 21/04/2009)
Bereaved families who object to a traditional post-mortem on religious or other grounds could opt for a body scan instead, under government plans. Ministers say some people, including some members of the Muslim and Jewish faiths, are uncomfortable with invasive post-mortem examinations. A trial has seen pathologists using MRI scanners instead in Greater Manchester.
A step closer to reading the mind
(BBC 12/03/2009)
Scientists say for the first time they have understood someone's thoughts by looking at what their brain is doing. Wellcome Trust scientists trained four participants to recognise several virtual reality environments. Discernible patterns in brain activity then signalled where they were, they wrote in the journal Current Biology.
IBM team boosts MRI resolution
(BBC 13/01/2009)
The resolution of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been given a massive boost by a team at computer giant IBM. MRI is used as an imaging technique in medicine to visualise the internal structure of the human body. The researchers demonstrated this imaging at a resolution 100 million times finer than current MRI.
Distant galaxies improve scanners
(BBC 12/08/2008)
Experts in Edinburgh use astronomy techniques to improve the reliability of MRI scans.
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