The use of sophisticated and expensive imaging technology has mushroomed over the last decade, raising the need for cost-conscious health insurers to improve their ability to measure the technology's costs and benefits. So say medical school researchers, who found that the federal government picked up the tab for twice as many magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography scans in 2005 than 10 years prior.

Tagged: economics, imaging, Human Health, Humanities & Sciences

Coaxing a patient’s own cells to hunt down and tackle infected or diseased cells is a promising therapeutic approach for many disorders. Now, for the first time, researchers have devised a way to obtain repeated “snapshots” of the location and survival of such cells in a living human patient months and possibly years later.

Tagged: cancer, imaging, Human Health, Medicine

In the first-ever brain imaging study of techniques for emotion regulation, researchers found that suppression actually led to increased stress levels.

Tagged: imaging, mental health, psychology, stress, Human Health, Humanities & Sciences

Doctors may one day be able to detect early stages of colon cancer without a biopsy, using a new technique developed by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Tagged: cancer, imaging, Human Health, Medicine