VIENTIANE, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Mekong Children's Heart Care Project was launched in the Lao capital Vientiane on Thursday, marking a significant step toward strengthening Laos' capacity for the ...

Background and Aims: Intussusception is the one of the most common acute abdomen in children. Ultrasound is being increasingly used the diagnosis of intussuscption. Ultrasound was performed by ...

Portable ultrasound devices could provide an alternative to x-ray machines for diagnosing forearm fractures in children in a move that could alleviate waiting times for families in hospital emergency ...

Children's veins are small and sometimes difficult to access during necessary medical treatment. When caregivers used ultrasound to guide placement of intravenous (IV) lines in children with presumed ...

Columbia University researchers are the first to show that focused ultrasound - a non-invasive technique that uses sound waves to enhance the delivery of drugs into the brain - can be safely used in ...

First, the little girl gets to choose the smell of the anesthetic that will put her to sleep: cotton candy. Then doctors place a helmet over her head so that hundreds of tiny metallic devices inside ...

NEW YORK, NY--Columbia University researchers are the first to show that focused ultrasound — a non-invasive technique that uses sound waves to enhance the delivery of drugs into the brain — can be ...

Currently, a practical, precise, minimally invasive way to measure cardiac output or heart function in children undergoing surgery does not exist. New research illustrates how a novel minimally ...

Dec. 3, 2004 — Multiple prenatal ultrasounds do not adversely affect child development, according to the results of an eight-year follow-up of a randomized trial published in the Dec. 4 issue of The ...