A new study of high school football players adds to mounting evidence that the Q-Collar may help reduce brain injury from sports-related head impacts.

Blue Earth Diagnostics announced that the Trial Steering Committee recommended further recruitment be stopped in the FALCON clinical study of fluciclovine (18F) PET/CT imaging, based on successful results of a pre-planned interim analysis. The FALCON trial, announced in March 2016, is a U.K.-based, open-label study (NCT02578940) to evaluate the clinical impact of fluciclovine (18F) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging on patient management decisions in men with biochemically recurrent prostate cancer.

Carestream Health is demonstrating new imaging analytics tools that are being added to its Clinical Collaboration Platform at the upcoming Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) conference, June 1-3 in Pittsburgh. These new capabilities are designed to equip healthcare providers to deliver preventative care.

A study in 65 countries has revealed low adoption of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recommendations to reduce nuclear cardiology radiation exposure. The research was presented at ICNC 2017, May 7-9 in Vienna Austria, by Edward Hulten, M.D., a cardiologist at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Md.

Scranton Gillette Communications’ Imaging Technology News (ITN) was recently named a 2017 Azbee Award winner in two Upper Midwest Regional categories. The annual Azbee Awards are hosted by the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) to recognize editorial and design excellence in the business, trade and specialty press.

A large nuclear cardiology laboratory in Missouri has slashed its average radiation dose by 60 percent in eight years, according to new research presented at ICNC 2017, May 7-9 in Vienna, Austria and published in JACC:Cardiovascular Imaging.1,2 The study in over 18,000 patients showed dose reductions were achieved despite a large number of obese patients.

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death of women worldwide. In Canada, according to the Canadian Cancer Society, one in every nine women is expected to develop breast cancer in her lifetime, and one in thirty will die from it.

Management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and data science company Kaggle recently announced the winners of the third annual Data Science Bowl, a competition that harnesses the power of data science and crowdsourcing to tackle some of the world’s toughest problems. This year’s challenge brought together nearly 10,000 participants from across the world. Collectively they spent more than an estimated 150,000 hours and submitted nearly 18,000 algorithms — all aiming to help medical professionals detect lung cancer earlier and with better accuracy.