Individuals and organizations providing or increasing access to quality radiological services for patients in low-to middle-income countries and underserved areas of the United States are encouraged to apply for the American College of Radiology Foundation’s (ACRF) new Global Humanitarian Awards. Award applicants may either be self-nominated or nominated by a peer.

A new survey entitled "Diagnosis Anxiety: The Working Mother Breast Screening Report" sheds important new information on the level of awareness women have about breast cancer today and what they are doing to help reduce the disease or detect it early.

The RSNA FastPass is produced by Imaging Technology News (ITN), and is designed as a guide to showcase the products and technology that vendors are highlighting at the show. Use it as a tool to better navigate the vast technical exhibit floor and find what you are looking for. The RSNA microsite can be found at www.itnonline.com/rsna-fastpass.

A new stereotactic radiosurgery system provides the same or a higher level of accuracy in targeting cancer tumors — but offers greater comfort to patients and the ability to treat multiple tumors at once — when compared to other radiation therapy stereotactic systems, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

A report released by the Department of Health and Human Services projects that hospitals will save $5.7 billion this year in uncompensated care costs because of the Affordable Care Act, with states that have expanded Medicaid seeing about 74 percent of the total savings nationally compared to states that have not expanded Medicaid.

Catherine Philippson, M.D., of the Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels presented her institution’s experience treating 425 early stage breast cancer patients from February 2010 through February 2014 using Mobetron to deliver intraoperative electron beam radiotherapy (IOERT) as the sole radiation treatment with no post-operative radiotherapy to follow.