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Chemistry World December 21, 2006 Tom Westgate	Molecular Probe Identifies Patients at Risk of Alzheimer's A new molecule could provide an early warning system for Alzheimer's disease, US researchers hope.
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The Motley Fool September 9, 2011 Brandon Glenn	Cardinal Health Looks to PET Drugs to Drive Margins The nuclear medicine business is an important driver of higher margins for the drug distribution company.
Popular Mechanics March 2003 Paul Eisenstein	World's Most Powerful Magnet The "magnetar," or magnetic neutron star known as Soft Gamma Repeater 1806-20, is the most powerful known magnetic object in the universe. While it's unlikely anything man-made will ever come close to the power of a magnetar, it's not for lack of trying.
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Chemistry World May 24, 2006	Detecting Brain Damage Before it Happens An NMR technique under development could help the victims of stroke by detecting brain damage early enough to provide treatment.
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The Motley Fool October 27, 2006 Jack Uldrich	Nanotech and the War on Cancer New imaging advances in nanotechnology will help speed cancers' end. What does it mean for investors?
Chemistry World January 10, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Heather Williams: Science is for everyone Heather Williams is a medical physicist at Central Manchester University Hospitals who specializes in positron emission tomography. She is also an advocate for women in science.
Chemistry World May 25, 2007 Victoria Gill	EU Legislation Would Prevent Medical MRI Scans The limits set by an EU directive designed to reduce adverse health effects on workers exposed to electro-magnetic fields could keep patients from undergoing valuable magnetic resonance imaging scans, warn Australian researchers.
Managed Care July 2006 Lola Butcher	Oncologic PET Study Seeks Basis for Coverage Decisions The launch of a new registry that will significantly expand Medicare's coverage of positron emission tomography may bring new clarity on appropriate uses for this technology -- and even more pressure on commercial health plans to cover the high-cost scans.
Chemistry World November 21, 2006 Victoria Gill	Side-Effect-Free Chemotherapy Scientists have now developed an enzyme with the potential to eliminate the extreme fatigue, sickness and hair loss that result from this cell damage and strike fear into the hearts of cancer patients.
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Managed Care May 2007	Self-Referral Persists Despite Stark II Law Loopholes in federal and state laws that curb physician referral to diagnostic imaging providers in which they have a financial stake (self-referral) are allowing physicians to stretch how they are paid and for what.
Chemistry World August 3, 2010 Lewis Brindley	Nanoparticles and ultrasound team up to treat tumors A new, non-invasive method to deliver drugs to the brain has been developed by Taiwanese researchers.
Chemistry World July 17, 2012 Harriet Brewerton	Pinning down cancer US scientists have synthesized pin-shaped nanoparticles with magnetic and optical properties. The nanoparticles could be used for magnetic resonance imaging, early detection and photothermal therapy of cancer and other diseases.
Chemistry World October 9, 2007 Victoria Gill	MRI Scanners Get Five-Year Reprieve in Legal U-Turn The European Commission will delay the implementation of the EU Physical Agents Directive. The decision follows pressure from scientists who have been lobbying to avert what they called a 'serious threat' to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) posed by the directive.
Popular Mechanics November 2007 Jeff Wise	Thought Police: How Brain Scans Could Invade Your Private Life In the past decade, a wave of researchers using scans has laid bare the rough schematics of how our brains handle fear, memory, risk-taking, romantic love and other mental processes. Soon, the technology could go even further, pulling back the curtain guarding our most private selves.
HBS Working Knowledge January 8, 2007 Jim Heskett	Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction? The growing use of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) devices for studying decision making means that in 2007 we may hear a number of striking conclusions based on studies involving a small number of brain scans.
Chemistry World June 21, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Peptide Agent Tracks Angiogenesis A molecular imaging agent that can track the progress of tumour growth is about to be trialled by GE Healthcare.
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IEEE Spectrum October 2012 Sylvain Martel	Magnetic Microbots to Fight Cancer Magnets steer medical microbots through blood vessels
Chemistry World September 5, 2013 Emma Stoye	Raman-based imaging takes guesswork out of brain surgery A new technique that color-codes cancerous and healthy brain cells according to their chemistry could help surgeons remove all traces of brain tumors while minimizing damage to sensitive tissues.
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Chemistry World June 13, 2007 Victoria Gill	Europe Running Out of Time to Address 'Threat' to MRI The European Commission has told scientists it is not yet ready to change proposed European physical agents legislation, criticized by scientists for posing a 'serious threat' to legislation on medical imaging.
American Family Physician June 1, 2002 S. Craig Humphreys	Neuroimaging in Low Back Pain Patients commonly present to family physicians with low back pain. Because the majority of patients fully or partially recover within six weeks, imaging studies are generally not recommended in the first month of acute low back pain.
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