January 18, 2010 - The Southeast Asian PACS market is a growing market, showing strong demand for PACS installations across the healthcare system. Applications for single-database RIS/PACS, cardiology PACS, digital mammography PACS, and clinical specialties such as cardiac, lung, colon and dental are in high demand.

January 14, 2010 - The leading Women's diagnostic centers today provide mammography, stereotactic breast biopsy, breast ultrasound, ultrasound and MRI, and guided breast biopsy, and these were the requirements for being distiguished a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology (ACR).

January 13, 2010 - Pressure from women's groups, doctors and imaging-equipment manufacturers may have influenced lawmakers to provide more coverage for mammograms in the final healthcare bill than recommended in the guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).

January 13, 2010 - Compared to computed tomography (CT), mammography and other commonly used tests, positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET/CT) scans of the whole body may more accurately detect cancer in individuals with related neurologic disorders, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the March print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives

January 13, 2010 - Whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) is often recommended for patients with advanced cancer to receive quick access to palliative radiotherapy.

January 12, 2010 - United Health Services (UHS) in Binghamton, N.Y., had a vision to be a tightly integrated healthcare system by 2011, and to be recognized by patients, physicians, and community leaders as a leading provider of health services and distinguished for superior clinical capabilities and outcomes.

January 11, 2010 – HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States and is recognized as the leading cause of cervical cancer. About 80 percent of women in the United States will have an HPV infection in their lifetimes.

January 11, 2010 - Reirradiation using fractionated stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) after previous radiotherapy for head-and-neck cancer is feasible, concluded researchers a study published in the Official Journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology.

January 11, 2010 - Interventional radiologists at Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock, Ark., recently became one of the first physicians in the U.S. to performed a technique, which uses an electric current instead of heat or freezing to permanently open cell membrane pores in the tumor, using irreversible electroporation (IRE). The IRE method does not require any chemotherapy.