How about a prostate biopsey?

Prostate Biopsies Spread Prostate Cancer Cells written by Dr ... , an ultrasound and prostate biopsy is commonly recommended and performed by Urologists when a patient presents [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 19:20:07

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The twins

My sister is 27 weeks pregnant with identical twin boys ... phone call from my mom.  After an extensive ultrasound, the twins were diagnosed with severe Twin [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 18:48:11

Bush Acts To Enable Social Conservatives To Deny Health Care

Bush might be a lame duck, but he is still able to do harm. The Washington Post reports: The Bush administration yesterday granted sweeping new protections to health workers who refuse to provide care that violates their personal beliefs, setting off an intense battle over opponents’ plans to try to repeal the controversial measure [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 04:49:41

How to Pick the Best Name for Your Baby

Expectant parents spend hours preparing the nursery, poring over pregnancy and delivery books and going to childbirth classes. Yet surprisingly, many decide their child’s given name within a matter of minutes, often spending more time selecting the right car seat or stroller. What should parents-to-be consider when choosing a baby name? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 09:58:33

Economist Versus Idiot: Bastard In A Basket

The World Last Week -Bill Richardson won't be America's next commerce secretary--he's under investigation for possibly giving one of his donors a state contract. -That wasn't the only stumble for Barack Obama's relatively smooth selection process, as Joe Biden called the secretive nature of the nomination of Leon Panetta ( [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 08:54:33

How My Week Went and More

I had a somewhat busy week, especially when I started working on my upcoming Anniversary Give-aways, I didn't realize it entails a lot of work, LOL. I'm a novice to this blog contest and give-away thingy but I tried it anyway. I'm happy to bring this big event to you, I hope you all stay tuned because there a lot of wonderful prizes lined up [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 17:45:00

Valkyrie: They Dared To Stop It

Film is power. As with ideas and the words that convey them, film can inform, inspire, and move people to act - for better or for worse. Some films need to be made. Others are better left unmade for the harm they cause. Of course most films fall into neither category, being rather a general waste of time - amusement - as such, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 12:00:03

How Cancer Changed Me

3 years laterToday marks a significant anniversary. Three years ago on this date my world changed forever. I was told that my child, my 2 year old baby boy, had cancer.My husband was in Korea when it happened. By divine intervention my father was with me that day, yet I remember feeling very alone and numb [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 08:06:00

K’s birth story

Today is my oldest niece’s birthday, and the first grandchild of our family, so I thought I’d give her birth story (from my perspective).My sister had planned a natural birth — that is, she intended on giving birth without any drugs. She did not take any childbirth classes, read few if any books, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 00:06:34

Careers in Radiology

Careers in Radiology Understanding Radiology Radiologist is a medical doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating disease and injury by using medical imaging techniques such as x-rays, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), fusion imaging, and ultrasound. Because [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 13:29:36

18 weeks

Today marks my 18th week of pregnancy, and the look on my face has a little to do with the way I'm feeling, although it's more about the fact that Jon was trying to get me to smile. Nothing to me is more obnoxious, except maybe someone calling me sweetheart or darling with a Boston accent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 22:48:17

New Technology Promises Compact High-Intensity Therapeutic Ultrasound

cornell-ultrasound.jpg A Cornell graduate student in biomedical engineering has overcome one of the problems that has kept ultrasound devices ... and adviser William L. Olbricht were able to build a pocket-sized high-intensity therapeutic ultrasound ... in biomedical engineering and a National Science Foundation fellow, creates ultrasound devices that [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 20:49:25

Obesity Paradox #17 — Fat and risks for premature babies

The first report of the new year in the Obesity Paradox series is a just-published study that adds important information to our understanding of why fat pregnant women have lower risks for spontaneously delivering premature babies. The fact that doctors have known that fat women are more likely to carry babies to term may even be news to some [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 04:49:00

Domain Happenings

We had the loveliest holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years). The children said it was our best Christmas ever. Now, I can't take that too seriously, because I do think I hear that almost every year - lol - but this year did seem very sweet. I think I would describe it best as gentle [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 22:38:00

How meaningful is the PSA ?

PSA - A Barometer to Prostate Health or a License to Biopsy? by: Dr. Ronald E. Wheeler, M.D. see http://www.peenuts.com/learning_center_psa.html Prostate Cancer is the most common malignancy among men and the second leading cause of death. It is estimated that 1 in every 5 to 6 men will get Prostate Cancer in their lifetime [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 19:20:12

TT - New Year

This is my first for this year 2009. Last week i missed this because of connection and this week i thank for the reminder in my mailbox so am here. I got only 1 thing to toot about this week.  Though i’ve already mentioned this in my weekly round-up but would love to mention it again here. My sis is now on her 7th month and the ultrasound [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 14:38:54

3rd Month Of Pregnancy – Baby Weight & Size, Developing Organs, Tests During The 11 – 15 Weeks Of Pregnancy

Baby at Third Month of Pregnancy By the end of this month the baby will weigh almost an ounce and grow up to three inches long ... . But it needs technical skill of an ultrasound operator to reveal the sex of a baby. Note – About twenty ... has to undergo during thir third month of pregnancy You may have to go in for an ultrasound examination [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 11:05:05

South Carolina may expand ultrasound law

It seems that trying to force women to view ultrasounds - because we're too stupid to know that when you get an abortion, ... women view that ultrasound. Seven S.C. House lawmakers have prefiled a bill that would require women ... an abortion the option of viewing an ultrasound beforehand. (Emphasis mine) Lovely. South Carolina [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 19:43:02

Four Surprises in Global Demography

Four Surprises in Global Demography By Nicholas Eberstadt Volume 5, Number 5 July 2004 Nicholas Eberstadt is the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington. This piece is based on an article that will appear in the Fall 2004 issue of Orbis (due out in September) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 04:00:13

3D Print Your Unborn Baby for U$1800

Ok, until now I thought the candlestick holder was the worst, but now this takes the cake for the weirdest and least cool use of a 3D print process ... . wrong The London Ultrasound Centre in the UK offers the ability to take a 3D scan of your offspring - before birth - and produce a 3D print of the child. The 3D Print is then used to create [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:07:20

Melissa Ohden: abortion survivor

I came upon this article about a pro-life rally in Sioux City Iowa. It mentioned the presence of Melissa Ohden, who said that she had survived an abortion attempt in the womb.Curious to learn more about her story, I googled her name on the internet and found her blog. It's a very personal story [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 03:26:00

Colby Cosh on abortion: when testosterone has nowhere to go?

Colby Cosh on abortion: when testosterone has nowhere to go? My response to his disappointingly retro "a fetus is like a kidney" column. I guess when you're a single man who doesn't work in a 2009 office (full of women) -- even a single man as enamoured of science and "progress" and "rationality" as Cosh --the whole ultrasound [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 10:57:44

Ask Auntie Hoyden: “she swallowed my cork”

It’s time for another…. Ask Auntie Hoyden! Dontcha just love these search-terms posts? Well, I do, so if you don’t, move along, nothing to see here. How do googlers find their way here? Most of the time they’re obviously searching for porn. Horrible, demeaning, often illegal porn [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 04:56:00

Radiation of any kind increases cancer risk

UPDATE: 19 January, 2009 -More mammography madness, women's health really not a priority - Thermography needs to become the treatment of choice and women should not be subjected to high risk of harm or breast cancer (along with heart and thyroid damage from the screening) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 00:15:00

Real Housewives of Orange County: Gretchen’s Tragedy and Glass Houses

It’s season four of Housewives with two new additions: 30-yr-old Gretchen Rossi and Lynne Curtain. Curtain replaced Lauri Waring Peterson after Peterson opted to drop out of the show when her son was arrested for drug possession [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 06:26:51

Bone Mets Clinical Trial

Hi, You may be interested to learn about: My Cancer Pain Organization Clinical Trials Bone Mets FDA Approved Clinical Trial to Ease Cancer Pain Bone mets clinical trial of ExAblate using MR guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) for pain ... that have spread to the bones. The non-invasive procedure combines focused ultrasound waves, designed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 08:01:48

“Groundbreaking” Portable Therapeutic Ultrasound System

“Groundbreaking” Portable Therapeutic Ultrasound System in: Breakthrough Thinking, Great New Product, Health & Fitness, Medical Breakthrough, ... Science & Technology News, new inventions “Groundbreaking” Portable Therapeutic Ultrasound System    Cornell University 3rd year PhD National Science fellow, George K. Lewis Ultrasound machines [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 18:00:32

Sorry, ladies, but your vagina conflicts with my morals.

In one more blow to women’s health and rights, the Bush Administration has issued a sweeping new regulation giving just about anyone the right to refuse to offer basic women’s health services. It’s being framed as about abortion, but here’s the thing: [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 23:54:35

Vietnam war memorial is 500 ft long. How long would an American abortion holocaust memorial wall extend?/How Big Media spins virginity pledge study...

Education Lesson in Big Media and liberal media's coverage of abstinence studies and a "fact that many media reports have missed cold."-"A medical journal starts it off by announcing a study comparing teens who take a pledge of virginity until marriage with those who don't [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 08:01:01

The Creme de la Creme of 2008

This is my third year putting together the Creme de la Creme list and it never ceases to amaze me how without knowing anyone else's entry, the list naturally serves as a pu-pu platter to the adoption/loss/infertility (ALI) experience.So what is the Creme de la Creme list if this is your first time here? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 05:14:00

South Korea- 2009 Scholarships for International Students - from Smart Structures Lab (Chonbuk National University)

2009 Scholarships for International Students - from Smart Structures Lab (Chonbuk National University) Description : We are building a research team of graduate students or post-doctorate for our laboratory. Our projects are related to the application of laser ultrasound technologies and fiber-optics [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:23:58

21 Weeks Check Up

I had my ultrasound and check up today.  Everything is looking good ... came out negative. I will have another ultrasound at 33 weeks, and more blood work plus the 1 hour ... .  I tried to label everything as best as I can. The ultrasound tech lady checked all the organs and blood [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 01:38:34

The Weird Week in Review

Garlic Salt Used to De-ice Roads Tone Brothers Inc. is a spice producer in Ankeny, Iowa, a suburb of Des Moines. The company has donated 18,000 pounds of garlic salt to the city for use in de-icing roadways. The garlic salt would have otherwise gone to a landfill [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 13:05:04

Groundbreaking, Inexpensive, Pocket-sized Ultrasound Device Can Help Treat Cancer, Relieve Arthritis

Groundbreaking, Inexpensive, Pocket-sized Ultrasound Device Can Help Treat Cancer, Relieve Arthritis A prototype of a therapeutic ultrasound device fits in the palm of a hand, is battery-powered and packs enough punch to stabilize a gunshot wound or deliver drugs to ... > [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 01:18:52

18 Week Bump Comparison

Here we are in the midst of week 18 of this second pregnancy. This is an exciting week, as on Thursday, I have a regular OB visit, and then on Friday, at the beginning of Week 19, we have our ultrasound! We are not going to find out the gender of this baby [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:47:00

Lahna Turner is Ralphie May Wife

Meet Lahna Turner, a Canadian Comedienne who is the wife of American stand-up comedian Ralphie May ... . See photos, video and a biography of Lahna Turner here. lahna turner Lahna Turner and Ralphie May made an ultrasound footage of their daughter “April June May” (that happens [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 01:32:00

Proteas inject urgency into Smith cure

South Africa have wasted little time in attending to injured captain Graeme Smith. ... and then, with the assistance of an ultrasound for positioning purposes, injected directly into the torn tendon. Smith [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 10:47:58

Hello world

Hello world Karlijn and I are delighted to let you know that we are expecting baby number two! ... for Axl to step up and to become a big brother. Ultrasound A 2D ultrasound of Axl's brother or sister at 16 weeks. Ultrasound A 3D ultrasound of Axl's brother or sister at 16 weeks. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 08:59:21

How Much Would I Have To Pay For Liposuction On My Stomach?

Liposuction Surgery: Liposuction surgery is one of the two most common procedures performed by plastic surgeons ... in costs of ultrasound assisted liposuction and suction assisted liposuction. Liposuction cost [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 16:11:07

Making Baby 3, Pregnancy Week 12 – 1st Trimester Scan

Making Baby 3, Pregnancy Week 12 – 1st Trimester Scan 19 December 2008 Category : ... Pregnancy I can’t believe it’s the end of my first trimester already. Making Baby 3 - Ultrasound 12 Weeks My 12 week scan goes really well. As the doctor rolled the ultrasound wand over [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 01:14:51

Image guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) ? a perspective

Image guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) – a perspective Quote: Image-guided radiation therapy is conformal radiation treatment guided by imaging equipment, such as CT, ultrasound or stereoscopic X-rays, taken in the treatment room just before the patient [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 14:29:01

This week marks the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that...

This week marks the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that centrally held that a mother may abort her pregnancy for any reason, ... . In January 2008 during their 20-week ultrasound, the Smith’s found that their daughter would most [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 20:56:46

North Dakota Bill Would Allow Women to See Ultrasound of Baby Before Abortion

Fargo, ND (LifeNews.com) -- A new bill in the North Dakota legislature would allow women a chance to see an ultrasound of their unborn child prior to an abortion. Abortion facilities don't always [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 22:38:41

What Is The Cost Of Liposuction Surgery Of Arms And Calves?

Liposuction Surgery: Liposuction surgery is one of the two most common procedures performed by plastic surgeons ... in costs of ultrasound assisted liposuction and suction assisted liposuction. Liposuction cost [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 22:17:21

Siamese monsters at my door, a.k.a. parent and sister. Looks...

Siamese monsters at my door, a.k.a. parent and sister. Looks like an ultrasound pic. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 15:40:00

Uterine Fibroids - MR guided Focused Ultrasound

YOUTUBE GrfTCbQ5rEE /YOUTUBE Uterine-Fibroids Org. Fibroids: Uterine Fibroids Treatment including Focused Ultrasound [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 08:20:02

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