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New Brain Scan technique shows back pain severity
Doctors help a new brain of imaging technology to determine and monitor the severity of patient's back pain, the researchers say.
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They found that the method called arterial spin labeling and they carried out during MRI images, observe changes in blood flow in certain areas of the brain as chronic back pain patients uncomfortable positions enabled, ABC News reported.
The study was conducted by scientists at Brigham and women's Hospital in Boston and is online and in the August print issue of the journal Anesthesiology.
"Usually, if you do studies with older techniques, you are not able to track the changes in human chronic pain in the course of time" study selection Dr. Ajay D. Wasan, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry, said ABC News. "This provides a way to see the physiology of the brain if someone has more or less chronic pain."
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Judge has suit apart from embryonic stem cell research
The Obama administration are still the funding of research into embryonic stem cells to an action on it Wednesday was released.
The suit alleges that a federal law prohibits, the taxpayer, which was financing of embryonic stem cells injured by the US national institutes of health research, which damages an embryo. But the Obama administration argues that the Federal Republic allows research using reported directive of embryos that have been harvested long ago, through private funding, the Associated Press .
US district judge Royce Lamberth decided last year that the action was probably successfully and a stop federally funded embryonic research ordered while the case further. But the U.S. Circuit Court of appeals in Washington, D.C. decided, that the action was a probable failure and the injunction lifted.
As a result reported Lamberth a statement on behalf of the Obama administration Wednesday AP released.
Scientists hope that cures for a range of diseases, including spinal cord injuries and Parkinson's diseaseavailable is the embryonic stem cells a day.
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Little evidence of 9 / 11 cancer link: report
A report released Tuesday saying U.S. Government it is not enough evidence to determine whether dust and smoke caused cancer causing terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in rescue and recovery workers or New York City residents who lived in the vicinity at the moment.
The finding means that their disease, says people with cancer diagnostics that they attribute the 9/11 attack qualify for federal benefits to treat or compensate for the New York Times.
The report by the National Institute for occupational safety and health was a new federal law required, which offers to monitor $4.3 billion in the next five years, to treat and to compensate for people who were exposed to dust and fumes from the WTC attack.
Proven on an assessment of the available data, the report is based, but there were only 18 published studies of the WTC attack, the cancer mentioned. Only five of these studies were peer-review and she showed mixed results, according to NIOSH Director Dr. John Howard, The Times reported.
A second review of a possible link between cancer and the WTC attack in beginning until mid 2012 is led, said Howard.
According to the timessome doctors believe that a link to cancer with time will be created.
Dr. Philip j. Landrigan, Director of the programme dedicated to 9/11 treatment, surveillance and research at Mount Sinai Medical Center, said the newspaper, that the likelihood of cancer tied increases as years pass on 9 / 11. He referred to his team research in multiple myeloma, which seems at a rate higher than usual, and at an unusually young age in some responders occur.
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