Medicare will remove limits on covering PET scans used to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, allowing broader access to new treatments on the U.S. market. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said in a memo it was removing a previous once-in-a-lifetime limit. But instead of making a broad decision about how many scans Medicare […]
Further evidence emerges that a serious infection can leave some major organs with long-term damage. Source link
The results could open up new ways to spot, treat and prevent some diseases, including cancer, experts say. Source link
The singer pays for a day’s worth of scans and pledges to do more. Source link
The Labour leader says it is “absolutely fundamental” that health care remans free at the point of need. Sir Keir Starmer was visiting the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex, a day after nearby resident Sir Rod Stewart offered to pay for medical scans to help people get treatment more quickly. The musician also gave […]
By Robert Preidt HealthDay ReporterHealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, March 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) — More than 10,000 American lives have been saved since lung cancer screening was introduced for high-risk people who are over 55 and have a history of smoking, a new study shows. But many poor people and those in ethnic/racial minority groups are […]
Lead author Prof Gwenaelle Douaud, from the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, at the University of Oxford, said: “We were looking at essentially mild infection, so to see that we could really see some differences in their brain and how much their brain had changed compared with those who had not been infected was quite […]
The study’s co-chief investigator, Prof Fergus Gleeson, said: “There are now important questions to answer, such as, how many patients with long Covid will have abnormal scans, the significance of the abnormality we’ve detected, the cause of the abnormality, and its longer-term consequences. Source link
Prof Paul Matthews, a neuroscientist from Imperial College London, said: “The brain scans can tell us more general things about the brain structure. Whether there’s evidence for inflammation in the brain that may be persisting, and whether there’s been damage enough to to actually kill nerve cells in the brain that may cause some shrinkage.” […]