Clinical News: Page 1772

Faxitron lands Premier deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Specimen radiography vendor Faxitron has landed a group purchasing agreement to provide its products and services to the Premier healthcare purchasing alliance.
August 27, 2012
Commercial screening tests, imaging overuse spike health costs
By Kate Madden Yee
Screening tests that are sold directly to consumers by commercial firms without physician referrals inflate healthcare costs and erode efforts to provide high-value care -- and medical imaging is a big part of the problem, according to a pair of opinion articles published on August 27 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
August 27, 2012
Simple procedures are keys to success of proton facilities
By Cynthia E. Keen
The use of proton therapy for prostate cancer patients is highly controversial because its high cost compared to other radiation therapy treatments has not been justified by superior patient outcomes. However, prostate cancer patients are essential for a proton therapy center's financial well-being.
August 27, 2012
Carestream downsizes DRX console
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health has introduced a smaller, lighter console upgrade for its DRX-1 digital radiography system.
August 27, 2012
ESC: Fractional flow reserve CT finds vessels causing ischemia
By Eric Barnes
Fractional flow reserve CT in patients with significant stenosis can distinguish those with coronary artery disease who need revascularization from those who don't, concluded a study presented on Sunday at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting and published concurrently in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
August 26, 2012
West Physics offers CT, fluoro dose reduction
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical and health physics consulting firm West Physics Consulting said it has begun offering CT dose reduction, fluoroscopy dose reduction, and related services to medical imaging providers across the U.S.
August 26, 2012
Mayo trades liquid VC prep for laxative pills
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Bisacodyl laxative tablets, long known as an adjunct to the liquid cathartic prep agents used to cleanse the colon before virtual colonoscopy scans, are taking a solo turn at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, AZ.
August 26, 2012
MRI software from MGH offers better estimate of tumor volumes
By Erik L. Ridley
Software developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) may offer a better way to estimate changes in tumor volume after treatment in soft-tissue sarcoma patients, giving physicians a better tool to track the effectiveness of therapy.
August 26, 2012
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FDA to review Hologic breast tomo extension
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is set to review an application by women's imaging vendor Hologic for an expansion of the clinical indications for its Selenia Dimensions 3D digital breast tomosynthesis mammography system.
August 23, 2012
Report leads Univ. of Iowa to fire nuclear medicine physician
By Brian Casey
The University of Iowa has terminated the employment of Dr. Malik Juweid, a nuclear medicine physician who has been embroiled in a personnel dispute with the university's department of radiology. Juweid's termination came after a report that detailed what investigators called a pattern of disruptive behavior at the university.
August 23, 2012
New takes on image guidance for radiation therapy
By Tami Freeman
Kilovoltage and megavoltage conebeam CT are predominantly used for real-time imaging during radiation therapy, with systems based on ultrasound or MRI now also being developed. But there are other imaging modalities that could be used, including those that offer functional and molecular information regarding the tumor being treated.
August 23, 2012
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RT radiation dose to pancreas linked to adult diabetes risk
By Cynthia E. Keen
Childhood cancer survivors whose treatment included abdominal radiotherapy (RT) have an increased risk of developing diabetes. Now, a study published online August 23 in Lancet Oncology has narrowed the location of radiation dose vulnerability to the tail of the pancreas.
August 23, 2012
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