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via Bertalan Meskó at ScienceRoll: Swine Flu: Follow Online!.
As swine flu sparks global concern, we can follow the cases and the news online quite easily. Maybe swine flu will be the first global disease that we can really follow minute by minute online. I’m not even surprised there is a swine flu kit you can [...]

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This is what the H1N1 Swine Flu Google Map looks like after twentyfour hours.

[at 4 PM IST April 27, 2009]
Thankfully, the Indian government seems to have woken up.
via The Times of India: India issues travel advisory in wake of swine flu epidemic. [Emphases mine]

As the Union health ministries’ high-level meeting on swine flu outbreak ended [...]

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First take a look at the H1N1 Swine Flu Google Map - that in the course of a day showed additional cases being detected in New York, New Zealand and France apart from the existing cases reported in Mexico, Texas, California and Kansas. (h/t AllergyNotes & Laikas)

[at 4 PM IST April 26, 2009]
The rate and [...]

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via Medscape Medical News: Writer’s Cramp Connected to Diffusion Abnormalities in the Brain. [Free registration required. Emphases mine]

Abnormalities in the fibers connecting different areas of the brain may contribute to muscle disorders such as writer’s cramp, report researchers. Their work, published in the April issue of the Archives of Neurology, suggests that corticosubcortical pathways may [...]

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via fnyc

[Both Images are from here & are linked there]
I guess this is not what it means to hit the nail on the head!
See more amazing radiographs (NO. They’re not x-rays!) and CT scans in this gallery.
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via AuntMinnie.com ARRS study: Cardiac CT beats nuclear stress test. [Free registration required. Emphases mine]

Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle found that using cardiac CT to diagnose chest pain in low-risk patients is far cheaper than the standard of care (SOC) using nuclear stress testing, according to a study to be presented at [...]

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via AuntMinnie.com: Rads must take lead in reducing pediatric CT dose. [Free registration required]

The simple step of coaching healthcare providers to check CT machine parameters before scanning kids may be one of the best things radiologists practicing in general hospitals can do for pediatric patients, according to Dr. M. Ines Boechat, president of the Society [...]

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via AuntMinnie.com: Obesity, Diabetes interfere with ultrasound detection of fetal anomalies. [Free Registration required. Emphases mine]

The ability to identify major fetal anomalies by ultrasonography is reduced in pregnant women who are obese or diabetic, according to researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. “It was our intention to evaluate whether fetuses [...]