An online poll of physicians who lead hospitals, health systems and large group practices across the United States conducted after the first presidential debate found more preferred Republican challenger Mitt Romney's plan to reform Medicare than President Barack Obama's, with many still undecided.

QuantiaMD, the largest online physician community, and The International CardiOncology Society (ICOS) announced at the ICOS 6th annual meeting in Milan, Italy a partnership to launch the ICOS global physicians collaboration forum on QuantiaMD. This first-of-its-kind partnership brings together an emerging area of medicine with QuantiaMD’s dynamic clinical exchange to rapidly drive awareness, education and training around the cardiac implications of oncology treatments.

October 18, 2012 — Accuray Inc. announced the resignation of Euan S. Thomson as president and CEO, and director of the board. Accuray's board has appointed Joshua H. Levine as his successor, effective immediately.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) leads the nation in breast cancer screening rates and has outperformed non-VA health care systems in breast cancer screenings for more than 15 years, with 87 percent of eligible women receiving mammograms in the VA health care system in fiscal year 2010.

October 16, 2012 — The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) will host an Ultrasound First Forum on Nov. 12, 2012, in New York City. The forum will address the expanding role of ultrasound imaging as a “first” imaging examination and will be devoted to encouraging the use of ultrasound as a safe, effective and affordable alternative to other diagnostic imaging modalities.

For many people the words “proton therapy” may conjure up images of some type of high-tech treatment from the future. But the future is now; and since its development more than two decades ago, proton therapy has become a safe, highly effective and well-regarded option for the treatment of many forms of cancer. Still myths about proton therapy treatment continue to exist.