Having breast cancer placed a significantly greater financial strain on black women than white women, according to a study by researchers at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

May 15, 2018 — U.S. First Lady Melania Trump underwent an interventional radiology embolization procedure to treat a benign kidney condition, according to a statement from the White House Press Office.

The White House said the procedure was successful and there were no complications. Mrs. Trump is at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and she will likely remain in the hospital for the duration of the week.  

UKRCO

UKRCO is a co-hosted annual event organised on behalf of the British Institute of Radiology, the Society and College of Radiographers and the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine.

On May 30, 2018, the American College of Radiology (ACR) Data Science Institute (DSI) and the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) will hold the Spring 2018 Data Science Summit: Economics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Health Care. The summit will be hosted at the SIIM 2018 Annual Meeting, May 31-June 2 in National Harbor, Md.

May 15, 2018 — Medic Vision Imaging Solutions Ltd. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its latest product, iQMR (intelligent Quick MR).

FDA's MQSA Accreditation Bodies Approved for Tomosynthesis Accreditation

On April 9, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that all four of its Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) accrediting bodies are approved to accredit digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) systems. This includes the states of Arkansas, Iowa and Texas, and the American College of Radiology (ACR).

CurveBeam announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its LineUp Multi-extremity weight bearing computed tomography (CT) system.

Imaging Technology News (ITN) was honored with a pair of National Bronze Azbee Awards for editorial excellence at the 2018 American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) Azbee Awards of Excellence banquet in Washington, D.C. Both ITN awards were in recognition of the efforts of Contributing Editor Greg Freiherr — in the Regular Column, Contributed category for Freiherr’s monthly column “The Last Read,” and in the Online Video News category for his Technology Report: Enterprise Imaging from the 2016 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting.

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