Research news tip sheet: Story ideas from Johns Hopkins Medicine
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Media Contact: Michael E. Newman, mnewma25@jhmi.edu In the movie Mary Poppins, the title character sings that "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down." Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have shown how a radioactive sugar -- combined with a widely used imaging technology -- could soon help physicians make the medicine work better by enabling them to rapidly detect and monitor infections from the largest group of bacterial pathogens threatening humans. The new imaging tool uses positron emission tomography -- commonly known as a PET scan -- to noninv...
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