Alzheimer’s disease is a form a dementia that robs millions of people each year of critical thinking capabilities that are needed to live a healthy and happy life. The statistics are staggering in both number of lives a ected by the disease and the cost of caring for those individuals. The Alzheimer’s Association latest...
By Christopher R. Hancock, MD Advances in technology over the past 30 years have allowed clinicians to diagnose and treat patients using less invasive and more accurate methods. The introduction of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) changed the way physicians “looked inside” a body to see if...
By John F. Feller, MD, and Bernadette M. Greenwood, BSRS, RT(R)(MR) Making a decision to be screened for certain medical conditions can be difficult, especially when the recommendations and guidelines are constantly changing. September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so it is timely to review the recommendations...
Wernher von Braun, who with his team launched the first American satellite into space, said, “One test is worth a thousand expert opinions.” With today’s advanced imaging technology, radiologists can take “one picture” of the entire inside of your body which is comparable to “a thousand expert opinions.” Until recently, whole body screening was...
New discoveries offer hope to both caretakers and clinicians By Christopher H. Hancock, MD November is Alzheimer’s disease awareness month, proclaimed by President Ronald Reagan in 1983. Alzheimer’s disease currently a icts more than 5 million persons in the United States, and 1 in 3 seniors will die with Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia....
Advanced Neuroradiological MRI: A Medical Imaging Aid for the Detection of Traumatic Brain Injury By Christopher R. Hancock, MD A traumatic head injury is any trauma that injures the scalp, skull, or brain. In recent years, awareness of this often debilitating condition has increased significantly, unfortunately due to the large number of incidents with professional...
Alzheimer’s disease a ects one in eight Americans over the age of 65. Approxi- mately 5.4 million Americans su er from Alzheimer’s disease and 82 million are ex- pected worldwide by 2050. Unfortunately there is still no cure for Alzheimer’s but researchers are continu- ally working to understand the hallmarks of the disease so...
We previously published Understanding Clinical Trials (July/Aug 2014) featuring an interview with Don Anderson, MD, principal investigator at Desert Valley Research. As a follow-up to that story, Desert Medical Imaging presented a client, Ed Dykstra, who wanted to share his story from the perspective of a clinical trial subject. Following is our interview with...
Who owns the patient health care record? By Christopher H. Hancock, MD The concept of the medical record has been around since the 1960s following the advent of the first electronic programmable computers in the 1940s and 50s: the Colossus, ENIAC, and UNIVAC. Larry Weed, MD, wrote a seminal paper on the topic of problem-oriented...
This October, Desert Medical Imaging (DMI) is bringing experts from around the world together for a three-day symposium on prostate MRI and MR-guided intervention. The educational event will be held on October 5-7 in Palm Springs at a new interactive learning facility opened last year by USCAP, an international pathology education organization. Located on...
Prostate MRI and MR-Guided Intervention in the Desert 2017 October 5-7. USCAP Interactive Center Palm Springs,...
