Molecular magnetic resonance medical imaging brings the level of visualization and analysis to the cellular and molecular level. At this level, it is possible to track and evaluate cellular functions that can provide never-before-available insight into the nature of the disease process. For example, there has long been an established connection between inflammation and heart disease. However, the medical imaging tools to measure inflammation related to the heart have simply not been available at a fine enough level of measurement to fully explore the connection.

Silicone Breast Implants Are Unsafe, Despite FDA Approval, Opinion Piece Says 
Despite FDA’s recent approval of silicone breast implants, there still are “considerable risks that women must consider before walking into the operating room,” Edward Melmed, a Dallas-based plastic surgeon, and Judy Norsigian, executive director of Our Bodies Ourselves, write in a Boston Globe opinion piece (Melmed/Norsigian, Boston Globe, 2/2). [click link for full article]

MIT Develops Nanoparticles to Fight Cancer 
U.S. scientists have created nanoparticles that mimic blood platelets to carry out internal medical missions, such as cancer imaging and drug delivery.

MEDRAD eCoil(TM) Product Line Awarded for Innovation 
MEDRAD’s innovative product line of endorectal MR coils, eCoil, has received the Frost & Sullivan Product Differentiation Innovation Award for offering “unprecedented” MR imaging of prostate, colon, and cervix regions.

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Edmonds eyes return Toronto Sun, Canada - 19 hours ago … “We just have to judge each day by his symptoms.”. Edmonds underwent an MRI exam on Tuesday night and other medical tests on Wednesday. … Jim Edmonds: Has MRI Tuesday Rotowire Dizzy Edmonds sits Chicago Tribune Edmonds sidelined by old concussion Belleville News-Democrat all 213 related

TE Stevens expected to miss six weeks because of knee injury
FOXSports.com – CHENEY, Wash. (AP) – Seattle tight end Jerramy Stevens was expected to miss the next six weeks after injuring his surgically repaired left knee during practice Thursday. An MRI exam showed that Stevens had torn the meniscus in the same knee that was …
MRI Scans Predict Developmental Delays in Preemies (WKYT 27 NEWSFIRST & WYMT Mountain News)
(Ivanhoe Newswire) — Getting a magnetic resonance imaging scan of a pre-term infant’s brain may predict future developmental problems. Investigators looked at 167 pre-term infants from New Zealand, Australia, and St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
Assessment of no-reflow regions using cardiac MRI. – HeartZine

Tide s Coffee out 3-4 weeks with knee injury
The State – An MRI test Tuesday showed Coffee sustained strained knee ligaments and a bone bruise to his right knee. The injury isn t expected to require surgery. He rushed for 179 yards last season and was vying for carries behind starter Ken Darby with Jimmy …
MRI scans in premature infants can predict future developmental delays (EurekAlert!)
St. Louis, Aug. 16, 2006 A Washington University pediatrician at St. Louis Children’s Hospital has found that performing MRI scans on pre-term infants’ brains assists dramatically in predicting the babies’ future developmental outcomes.
AROUND THE HORN: Cardinals' Edmonds sidelined – Detroit Free Press

Accused Movie Shooter Ordered To Have Brain Scan
WBAL Channel – Mujtaba Rabbani Jabbar, 24, who pleaded not criminally responsible in the June 15 slaying of Paul Schrum, 62, will be taken to a Baltimore medical facility next week for an MRI of his brian. Baltimore County Circuit Judge Thomas J. Bollinger Sr …

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MLS All-Star Ching expected to miss three weeks with knee injury USA Today - 7 hours ago … All-Star game. An MRI last week confirmed the injury, but Ching went on to play on both Wednesday and Saturday. “I feel frustrated … Ching to have surgery on Wednesday MLS – Major League Soccer Hawaii Beat Honolulu Star-Bulletin Ching expected to miss a month with knee injury ESPN Houston Chronicle - all 19 related

Hancock to have MRI
San Bernardino County Sun – USC fullback Brandon Hancock feared he suffered a season-ending knee injury Monday but will not know the extent of his injury until he undergoes tests today. Hancock felt a pop in his left knee after his foot landed in an awkward position during a …
Phils’ Gordon will have MRI exam today (The News Journal)
PHILADELPHIA — Tempering the Phillies’ excitement from Monday night’s 13-0 blowout of the front-running New York Mets was news that All-Star closer Tom Gordon has been bothered by right shoulder inflammation and will undergo an MRI exam today.
Good news as Gordon s MRI proves A-OK – The Delaware County Times

Doctors decry Medicare cuts
Times Union – A CT or MRI scan routinely costs several thousand dollars, and doctors are quick to assign lab tests or imaging appointments to patients at the hint of a problem. In some cases an X-ray would suffice, critics say. Yet at the same time, improved …

Camp Scene: Dwight Freeney returns to practice
Tribune-Star – We re still kind of waiting on the MRI results. We sent them in to Indianapolis to be read. I think he s going to be okay. We know that it s an ankle injury, but we don t know the extent of it, Dungy said. Preliminarily, hoping that it

Tigers end losing streak at five games
FOXSports.com – Boston RHP Keith Foulke had an MRI exam to make sure there was nothing major causing stiffness in his back. There was no immediate timetable for his return. Red Sox Class A prospects Jeffrey Farrell (5 IP) and Yulkin German (4 IP) combined on a no

Large bodies are a growing problem among Indiana residents
South Bend Tribune – Flynn added that the expansive girth of some patients prevents them from fitting into MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) tubes. “It’s a little easier to fit a heavy person in an open MRI machine,” he said. “But even with an open MRI, the two plates must

Review Details Drug Companies’ Reach
WATE – Hologic’s core business units are focused on osteoporosis assessment, mammography and breast biopsy, and mini C-arm and extremity MRI imaging for orthopedic applications. For more information visit http://www.hologic.com. About Siemens AG Siemens AG

Ziarnowski back, ready to play
Home News Tribune – I saw the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging test) of it and it almost looked like a golf ball in a garden hose,” Ziarnowski said. “If the hose was the nerve, then the golf ball was the tumor. It was right in there; unbelievable.” But fixable. In 4 1/2

NFL notes
Austin American-Statesman – An MRI test detected the injury, which involves the bone popping out of place temporarily in the shoulder socket. Standard treatment involves rest and strengthening exercises. There was no immediate indication how long he will be sidelined

Redskins’ Portis suffers partially dislocated shoulder
Philadelphia Daily News – An MRI test detected the injury, which involves the bone popping out of place temporarily in the shoulder socket. Standard treatment involves rest and strengthening exercises. There was no immediate indication how long he will be sidelined. Noteworthy

Many young adults lack safety net
Charlotte.com – An MRI can cost from $400 to $5,000. Cost is a problem for a young adult with a minimum wage job, Abbate said. ”A doctor visit or a lab test is expensive even on a sliding fee scale,” she said. Emergency room care: As Martinez of the Helen B

MRI can verify the reason for droopiness
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette – Dear Mayo Clinic: I am a healthy woman in my early 50s. But ever since I was 15, the right side of my body sometimes droops there is heaviness in my leg, arm and face, making it hard to walk, grasp and chew. This happens about once or twice …
Shelby adds high-tech MRI (The Shelby County Reporter)
Shelby Baptist Medical Center has installed a new, high-tech MRI that hospital officials say will detect diseases earlier and provide doctors with more treatment options.
Shorter waitlists for MRI scans – Esquimalt News

Season likely over for Cubs’ Prior
Modesto Bee – Prior didn’t feel anything wrong with the shoulder, but a loss in velocity in the third inning led the team to send him back to Chicago for an MRI on Friday, which showed rotator cuff tendinitis. The Cubs want Prior to rest for three weeks before …

Terrell Owens Enjoys Tour De Oxnard
Quad-Cities Times – An MRI taken Saturday was clear, but Owens flew in several doctors and trainers, plus a hyperbaric chamber, because he still didn’t feel right. Speaking to reporters for the first time since the MRI, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he never doubted

Mercker may have thrown his last pitch
Dayton Daily News – He will have an MRI on Monday, and if it shows he needs surgery, he won’t do it. “The MRI is more of a peace-of-mind thing. “I had elbow surgery when I was 19 (1987), and it lasted until I was 38,” he said. “My lease is up. Who knows, if I have it

MRI can verify the reason for droopiness
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette – Dear Mayo Clinic: I am a healthy woman in my early 50s. But ever since I was 15, the right side of my body sometimes droops there is heaviness in my leg, arm and face, making it hard to walk, grasp and chew. This happens about once or twice

The Head-To-Toe High-Tech Checkup
Indy Channel – Using a series of sophisticated imaging scans including a battery of ultrasounds, a full-body computed tomography scan (also known as a CT scan) and a magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, check of the brain Dr. Daniel Cosgrove at the La Quinta