A new phase of the Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program (BCERP), focused on prevention, is being launched at the National Institutes of Health. Grant-funded researchers will now work across scientific disciplines, involve new racially and ethnically diverse communities, and expand the study of risk factors that precede breast cancer, such as breast density.
Twenty years ago whole body scanners were a fad. It wasn’t called that. But it had the earmarks. Wild enthusiasm ...
In the early days of radiology, data entry errors by radiology technologists were common. Their attention, after all ...
While most women understand the importance of health screenings, an estimated 72 million have missed or postponed a ...
Dell Inc. and EMC Corporation today announced they have signed a definitive agreement under which Dell, together with its owners, Michael S. Dell, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell, MSD Partners and Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing, will acquire EMC Corporation, while maintaining VMware as a publicly-traded company.
The outlook of breast cancer is changing, and death rates have been decreasing since 1989, thanks in part to treatment advances, earlier detection through screening and increased awareness.
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The digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) market has evolved rapidly within the past year, with new vendors entering the market and recent clinical data continuing to support its use. In addition, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) created dedicated reimbursement codes for DBT procedures earlier this year.
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
The U.S. House of Representatives on July 10 passed its version of the 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 6), designed to improve the U.S. healthcare innovation infrastructure.
As healthcare converts to an entirely electronic health record (EHR)-based system, it opens up new opportunities to monitor trends in population health and even identify specific patients for follow-up in targeted populations.
If you are a partner in, or manager of, a private radiology practice, this is probably your reality today: You have a large overhead to maintain, from buildings and staff to expensive equipment that needs replacing as the technology evolves.
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My career has been an incredible journey; one that has presented me with wonderful opportunities to do the work I’ve absolutely loved while at the same time, bringing me face-to-face with a serious illness that has changed the course of my journey. Would I have done things differently if I understood the health risks involved in working with radiation?
The unfortunate reality of living with cancer is that oftentimes, the treatment can be just as much of a burden for patients as the disease itself.
Even though magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has seen its applicability expand in recent years, through innovations such as MR-guided radiation therapy and the modality’s integration with positron emission tomography (PET) scanners, the market as a whole has remained fairly flat.
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In support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, ITNonline.com has, once again, gone pink for the month of October.
Medical imaging company Telemis has announced results for its 2014 – 2015 financial year, with the PACS specialist delivering its 13th consecutive year of profitability on revenues that have grown almost 500 percent in a decade.
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Viztek announced that the flagship facility of NiteHawk Pediatric Urgent Care is now the first facility in the state of Texas to select the company's Ultra Straight Arm DR with Pediatric Imaging Package with dose-conscious capabilities.
Kubtec has been awarded a group purchasing agreement for imaging products and services with Premier Inc., a leading healthcare improvement company. Effective Oct. 1, 2015, the new agreement allows Premier members, at their discretion, to take advantage of special pricing and terms pre-negotiated by Premier for mammography products and services.
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) now offers patients one of the most advanced computed tomography (CT) imaging systems available with the installation of Toshiba’s Aquilion ONE ViSION Edition.
Laurel Bridge Software, a provider of enterprise medical imaging workflow solutions, announced the addition of HL7 workflow management and 64 bit support to their Compass DICOM routing solution. These new enterprise workflow capabilities will help healthcare organizations automate their increasingly sophisticated workflows that often span diverse healthcare information technology (IT) systems, particularly when used in conjunction with the company’s other workflow solutions.
With the next generation of technologies, the Mindray M9 offers users highly focused features for dedicated applications with premium image quality. Advanced signal processing and newly designed adaptive algorithms raise the M9 to a new level of overall performance.
Shimadzu Medical Systems USA announced the availability of the MIX package for the Trinias Cardiovascular suites. Based on the three main operating concepts (SCORE Imaging, SMART Design and SMILE Concept) for Trinias, Shimadzu is providing new features for taking minimally invasive procedures to new levels.