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8-year-old beats the odds against heart and brain birth defects

27.09.2018 Health Problems

The day after Maggie Maine was born, doctors told her parents there was a 70 percent chance she’d never walk, talk or be able to feed or bathe herself. An MRI had found severe defects in both her heart and her brain. Relying on their faith, Jeff and Renae Maine decided to focus on the 30 percent chance that the […]

For women with genetic risk, twice-a-year MRI beats mammograms

13.09.2018 Health Problems

Getting magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans twice a year instead of one annual mammogram is far more effective at detecting early breast cancers in young women with a high-risk genetic profile than mammograms alone, according to a research team based at the University of Chicago Medicine and the University of Washington, Seattle. The results, first presented Dec. 8, 2017 at […]