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Hologic makes progress in Q2 financials
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Increased revenue in its Breast Health segment helped Hologic improve its financial picture in the second quarter of fiscal 2014.
April 30, 2014
Medicare panel raises doubts about CT lung cancer screening
By Eric Barnes
Members of a Medicare advisory panel expressed a range of doubts about the benefits of CT lung cancer screening in a meeting on April 30 in Baltimore, giving screening low confidence scores. The question now becomes how the mostly negative panel meeting will shape the debate about Medicare reimbursement over the next six months.
April 30, 2014
FDA clears GE's Discovery IGS 740 angio system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Discovery IGS 740 mobile angiography system.
April 30, 2014
AATS: Is CT really better than x-ray for monitoring NSCLC patients?
By Louise Gagnon
TORONTO - There is no survival advantage to using CT over chest x-ray when monitoring patients who have undergone resection for pathologic stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to a retrospective analysis presented at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) annual meeting.
April 30, 2014
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AuntMinnie.com Radiation Oncology Insider
By Brian Casey
April 29, 2014
MEDCAC panel shows low confidence in CT lung screening
By Eric Barnes
CT lung cancer screening for high-risk individuals in the Medicare program received a vote of low confidence by a panel of medical experts meeting in Baltimore today. The vote seriously weakens the case for establishing Medicare payment for low-dose CT lung cancer screening.
April 29, 2014
CIRS rolls out 2 new US phantoms
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computerized Imaging Reference Systems (CIRS) has released two new quality assurance phantoms to satisfy updated ultrasound accreditation requirements published by the American College of Radiology.
April 29, 2014
Kubtec debuts new Xpert models
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Kubtec has unveiled new versions of its Xpert 20 and Xpert 40 digital specimen radiography systems.
April 29, 2014
GE touts results of multicenter DaTscan studies
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare is touting the results of four clinical trials that show its DaTscan tracer with SPECT brain imaging was associated with a high level of diagnostic effectiveness.
April 29, 2014
MRI shows that diabetes leads to loss of brain volume
By Wayne Forrest
MRI results suggest that the longer a patient has type 2 diabetes, the more brain volume is lost, according to research published online April 29 in Radiology. This was especially true for gray matter, which is associated with speech, motion, and memory.
April 29, 2014
Kubtec launches technology for breast-sample tomo
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Kubtec has launched its TomoView tomosynthesis technology for digital radiography of excised breast tissue.
April 29, 2014
NIRS-IVUS sees lipid core plaque in vivo
By Eric Barnes
A new technique based on near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) used during an intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) procedure is the first to directly visualize unstable lipid core plaque, according to an article in the Journal of Invasive Cardiology.
April 29, 2014
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