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Elizabeth Cooney is a health reporter for the Worcester Telegram &
Gazette.
Boston Globe Health and Science staff:
Scott Allen Alice Dembner Carey Goldberg Liz Kowalczyk Stephen Smith Colin Nickerson Beth Daley Karen Weintraub, Deputy Health and Science Editor, and Gideon Gil, Health and Science Editor. Short White Coat blogger Ishani Ganguli  |
« In case you missed it: ER waits, facing insurance changes, user-innovators, BU prof. not UF pick | Main | Today's Globe: VA hospitals, TB fight, diets compared, hospice for minorities, stent rival, heart failure drug, NIH flatlining » Monday, March 26, 2007Today's Globe Health|Science: recipe for research, IVF twin hopes, 3-D stretch, E8, breast cancer surgeonsIt takes patience, sacrifice, and lots of food to figure out whether something is really good for you, volunteers learn when they plunge into the world of diet and nutrition research at Tufts University, bellying up to the table in the name of science. It's long been the Catch-22 of in-vitro fertilization: The chances of a successful pregnancy increase with the number of embryos implanted, but so does the likelihood of multiple pregnancies, which are riskier for both mother and offspring. Now a new study and a growing body of research suggest that, ultimately, implanting only one embryo is just as likely to lead to pregnancy. Last week, Harvard's Initiative in Innovative Computing unveiled a modified version of 3D Slicer, a computer program developed to allow surgeons to explore an image of the body -- zooming in, rotating, and moving around as needed to see the terrain. The modified version lets researchers do the same thing with astronomical data, exploring space for interesting surprises. Also in Health|Science: meeting mathematician David Vogan and shopping for a breast cancer surgeon. Posted by Elizabeth Cooney at 06:23 AM
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