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Two patients can have identical knee x-rays/MRIs - loss of joint space and osteophyte formation etc. But one has pain and the other does not. Do they both have osteoarthritis? They…

It is dose dependent. Use of low powered US for a short period is safe. If you increase power, you can cause damage - either to to break kidney stones as you say, or, when focussed…

Agree in principle with remote diagnostics in this way. But, the number of acute illnesses that can be diagnosed with US and can/should be treated at home is fairly small. Pneumoni…

I believe it was published in Annals of Internal Medicine (impact factor of ~4). The link is to a news article in Science discussing the paper.

If there is too little CSF (e.g. a CSF leak), the brain 'slumps' but it doesn't "crush itself under gravity". Too much CSF can lead to hydrocephalus, which is enlargement of the ve…