A heart-in-mouth moment: X-ray reveals a perfect heart shape in a girl’s chest after she swallowed a necklace A 3-year-old girl presented to an emergency department in San Diego A radiograph confirmed heart-shaped foreign body in the thoracic esophagus The patient was taken to the operating room to undergo rigid endoscopy By Peter Lloyd for… Read More »
MIT researchers have developed a way to dramatically enhance the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), a technique used to study the structure and composition of many kinds of molecules, including proteins linked to Alzheimer’s and other diseases. Using this new method, scientists should be able to analyze in mere minutes structures that would… Read More »
‘Dad was told – this is your wheelchair, get used to it’: Paralysed Superman star Christopher Reeve’s son reveals his dad would be ‘ecstatic’ as patients walk again thanks to pioneering treatment supported by late actor’s foundation Jered Chinnock, from Wisconsin, recently walked again after being paralysed He’d received a pioneering treatment supported by the foundation of… Read More »