Archive for June, 2009
In response to Dr.Val on the Abortion “issue”
3 Comments Published by Vijay June 9th, 2009 in Ethics, Friends, Medical blogs, Medicine, Nebulous Views…
Abortion and the intense debate about it in an otherwise enlightened (?) country was the topic of two of my earliest posts in this blog (this post and this one). I posted again when it looked like the debate was going to start in India. Thankfully, it died a natural death.
Those of you who follow [...]
Dual-Energy CT Helps Spot Gout
0 Comments Published by Vijay June 8th, 2009 in Medical Research, Medicine, News, Radiology…
via medGadget - Dual-Energy Computed Tomography Helps Spot Gout.
In collaboration with Siemens, Dr. Savvas Nicolaou, Director of Emergency Radiology at Vancouver General Hospital and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and both his radiology and rheumatology colleagues developed a dual-energy algorithm for identifying uric acid deposits. The Canadian scientists used a [...]
