''Newswise — Color Doppler ultrasound, not CT, should be the first imaging examination for adult patients with suspected acute appendicitis, a new study emphasizes. The study of 420 medical records found that sonography correctly denied acute ...'

''ScienceDaily (May 7, 2008) — Brightly colored dyes such as the shimmering Congo Red commonly used in silk clothing manufacture are notoriously difficult to dispose of in an environmentally benign way. Congo Red is an azo dye, it is toxic to many ...'

''ScienceDaily (Apr. 26, 2008) — Using 3-D ultrasound technology they designed, Duke University bioengineers can compensate for the thickness and unevenness of the skull to see in real-time the arteries within the brain that most often clog up and cause ...'

''The treatment of uterine fibroids with 3T MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) is safe, non-invasive and effective, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, NY. “Approximately 25% of women in ...'

''Ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (USFNA) of the lymph nodes is a safe, useful, and minimally invasive procedure for diagnosing metastatic disease in patients who are undergoing preoperative staging for breast cancer, according to a recent study ...'

''ScienceDaily (Apr. 1, 2008) — A Saint Louis University cardiologist called upon the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on March 31 to reconsider a strong warning it recently placed on a diagnostic tool, stating that the warning could prevent doctors ...'

''Chicago, IL, March 31, 2008 – New data from a clinical trial using intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) technology found that in patients living with type 2 diabetes, ACTOS® (pioglitazone HCl) reduced the atherosclerotic burden in the coronary arteries ...'

''ScienceDaily (Mar. 4, 2008) — New ultrasound technology will make it possible for doctors to discover cancer tumors far earlier than before. A method that transmits new and more advanced ultrasound signals is being tested in Trondheim. The chances of ...'

''Improving the quality of pre-operative ultrasound examination (ultrasonography) could lead to a significant decrease in the number of unnecessary major surgical operations done on women with suspected ovarian cancer, who in fact have benign ovarian ...'

''ScienceDaily (Jan. 11, 2008) — A high-energy form of ultrasound imaging developed by researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering produces pictures of liver tumors that are better than those made with traditional ultrasound, according to ...'