Atrial Fibrillation and WolffParkinsonWhite Syndrome WPW

Positron Emission Tomography

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a scanning technique that uses an MRI scanner and radioactive substances that are injected into the blood stream to obtain detailed images of the brain that rel...

Chronic Myelocytic Leukemia CML

Chronic myelocytic leukemia is the resulting disease when neutrophil, basophil, eosinophil, and monocyte progenitors become cancerous. It is usually caused by the presence of the Philadelphia chromo...

Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM)

Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) is new psychiatric therapy; involving just a few 15-minute sessions and no drugs, discussion of feelings, or even a psychiatrist, it is described as a cognitive vac...

Chronic Leukemia

Chronic leukemia is a long term increase of abnormal white blood cells. It can be classed as myelogenous or lymphocytic leukemia. For more information see the Leukemia pages Add the Leukemia New...

Smelling a white odor

Scientists have applied the principles of white color and white noise to create a white smell.

Images of diseased organs have most impact on smokers

Labels that use graphic images as warnings on cigarette packaging have the most pronounced impact on adult smokers compared with other images or text-only labels, say researchers.

Patient's Photo On X-Ray Images Leads To Dramatic Drop In Wrong Patient Errors

Adding a photo of a face to x-ray images can reduce "wrong-patient" errors five-fold, a new study finds. "X-rays can look alike, and if one patient's images are confused with another before the radiol...

Breast cancer patient's successful surgery tempered by gene mutation

There is a new shiny pink ribbon hanging in front of Renee Hinson's home.

The smell of white

(Weizmann Institute of Science) Weizmann Institute scientists apply the principles of white color and white noise to create a white smell.

White smell: Scientists find odor has color

You can see the color white; you can hear white noise. Now, Weizmann Institute researchers show that you can also smell a white odor. Their research findings appear online this week in the Proceeding...

Tips to maintain healthy hair

Want more good hair days? Dermatologists say how you wash your hair and the products you use could go a long way in maintaining smooth, shiny hair.

Manufacturers offered helping hand with EU approval

The shiny office block in a business district of Seoul, South Korea, is not the most obvious place to find an organisation offering to certify a medical product for use in patients across Europe.......

White shiny structures: dermoscopic features revealed under polarized light.

Background  White shiny structures, including white shiny lines, white shiny areas and rosettes, are features only observed under polarized dermoscopy (PD). Objective  To evaluate the prevalence o...

Shiny concrescence.

A Dual Emissive BODIPY Dye and Its Use in Functionalizing Highly Monodispersed PbS Nanoparticles.

Shiny particles: A newly synthesized BODIPY dye displays unusual dual emission and can be used to functionalize highly monodisperse PbS nanoparticles (see picture; B pink, F green, O red, C gr...

Image resizing using saliency strength map and seam carving for white blood cell analysis.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: A new image-resizing method using seam carving and a Saliency Strength Map (SSM) is proposed to preserve important contents, such as white blood cells included in blood cell imag...

A novel consistent photomicrography technique using a reference slide made of neutral density filter.

Obtaining consistent photomicrographic images of pathology slides is not always easy because of many different types and settings of the equipment such as the microscopes and digital cameras. In this...