background: an early diagnosis of breast cancer relates directly to an accurate treatment plan and strategy. early detection of breast cancer before its development would be a significant reduction of morbidity and mortality rates. the aim of this preliminary study is to investigate the sensitivity of wide angle x-ray diffraction (waxrd) method on women hair samples of healthy and breast cancer...

cardiovascular disease remains the principal cause of death in the modernized world.   several novel noninvasive imaging techniques have been recently developed to improve diagnosis of cardiac and coronary disease.   of these advances, multidetector computed tomographic (mdct) angiography has evolved most dramatically to transform computed tomography from a single-slice trans-axial modality to ...

background: fetal dna in maternal plasma and serum has been shown to be a useful material for prenatal fetal sex determination during early gestational ages. non-invasive prenatal diagnosis is now possible at 8th week of pregnancy, by maternal blood sample testing. objective: the purpose of this study was to evaluate two dna extraction methods from mother plasma and its routine clinical applica...