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Apple Watch helps user discover brain tumor after unusual heart rate alerts

Apple Watch helps user discover brain tumor after unusual heart rate alerts

The Apple Watch’s health features have once again played a part in flagging a potential health problem. A 57-year-old woman from Brighton, East Sussex says her Apple Watch alerted her to an issue that ultimately led doctors to uncover a brain tumor. Sam Adams told The Sun that her Apple Watch repeatedly flagged an unusually low heart rate after she returned from …

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Russian Researchers Build a Pocket-Sized Thermal Imager That Monitors Blood Flow During Tumor Removal

Russian Researchers Build a Pocket-Sized Thermal Imager That Monitors Blood Flow During Tumor Removal

Researchers at St. Petersburg State Technical University “leti” have developed a compact, fully domestic thermal imaging system that can monitor blood flow during the surgical removal of tumors. The technology, currently undergoing trials at the a.l. polenov russian scientific research neurosurgical institute, shows promise for helping surgeons assess tissue microcirculation before, during, and after operations — a critical factor in …

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Doctors dismissed my symptoms as a sinus infection… a year later I found out I had a deadly brain tumor

Doctors dismissed my symptoms as a sinus infection… a year later I found out I had a deadly brain tumor

Long before becoming a patient, Ilene Sue Ruhoy was a prominent neurologist in Seattle, accustomed to treating disease.  She had been practicing for a decade when, in 2014, she noticed mounting fatigue, dizziness, nausea, migraines, and irritability that various doctors chalked up to stress, a hormone imbalance, and a sinus infection. None of them, she felt, truly listened or took …

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