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Test its health and viability? >> as a general guideline, doctors talk about around 23 or 24 weeks of gestation before a fetus is what is known as viable. able to live outside of the womb, outside of the uterus. thats a general guideline. before that its really hard to know much more. even with regard to brain death in adults, a lot of its a clinical exam, being able to kpa t examine the patient. with the fetus you could do scans, ultrasounds. if the brain had had a period of time without blood ...

Doctors talk about around 23 or 24 weeks of gestation before a fetus is what is known as viable. able to live outside of the womb, outside of the uterus. thats a general guideline. before that its really hard to know much more. even with regard to brain death in adults, a lot of its a clinical exam, being able to examine the patient. with the fetus you could do scans, ultrasounds. if the brain had had a period of time without blood flow, you may be seeing signs on those imaging that the brains n...

All the time. c.a.t. scans, we have the angiogram, that shows what blockage you have. c.a.t. scans that tell you if your coronary arteries are getting calcified. we have stress tests. these are what we call noninvasive tests, jamie. now we have a new one still in the works but its very exciting. theyre usie ining p.e.t. scans technology. the imaging from p.e.t. tells you what area of the body is heating up. we want to know if the plaque is heating up in your coronary arteries. if the plaque rupt...

Michael heuser goes in for a ct scan of his head. clumps of hair fall out. suzanne sloan, same thing. and same for donald biggles. >> i had a perfect ring around my head. >> heres how their hair falls out. the hospitals programmed the ct scanner wrong and repeatedly scanned these patients with monster doses of radiation. michael gets eight times the allowable dose. >> the well-publicized images we saw of patients who got ct scans of their brain who had hair loss in a very clear distribution, tha...

Cancer-free. he said blood and imaging tests have shown sarah is continuing treatments with natural products and is cancer-free. theres no way for us to confirm that, ashleigh, because as you mentioned, the family is still in hiding. according to the local newspaper, the grandfather said the little girl was taken down to central america and received holistic medicine there at a clinic. the doctors at akrons children hospital, theyre at the center of this controversy with the family. they spoke t...

So many other patients out there. >> this is an amazing example of the hope and what science can do. as a neurobiologist, the answer is going to lie in being able to understand the genetics and mechanis mechanisms. this illustrates what you can do in the individual and specifically. >> a neurobiology. i was thinking about becoming a neurobiology. susan, how were we doing. you have been doing this for so long and been doing extraordinary things with a cure. are we making progress and are there mo...

The hospitals programmed the ct scanner wrong and repeatedly scanned these patients with monster doses of radiation. michael gets eight times the allowable dose. >> the well-publicized images we saw of patients who got ct scans of their brain who had hair loss in a very clear distribution, that was the area with a lot of repetitive imaging where the doses get up very high. basically, the hair cells got destroyed by the radiation. >> the fallout from that dangerously high amount of radiation wasn...

>> the well-publicized images we saw of patients who got ct scans of their brain who had hair loss in a very clear distribution, that was the area with a lot of repetitive imaging where the doses get up very high. basically, the hair cells got destroyed by the radiation. >> the fallout from that dangerously high amount of radiation wasnt just hair loss. donald, michael, and suzanne have to worry that all that radiation could give them cancer. if possible, instead of a ct scan get an ultrasound o...

My head. >> heres how their hair falls out. the hospitals programmed the ct scanner wrong and repeatedly scanned these patients with monster doses of radiation. michael gets eight times the allowable dose. >> the well-publicized images we saw of patients who got ct scans of their brain who had hair loss in a very clear distribution, that was the area with a lot of repetitive imaging where the doses get up very high. basically, the hair cells got destroyed by the radiation. >> the fallout from th...

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