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Endocrine society advises DEXA for at-risk men
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Endocrine Society has included bone densitometry testing in its clinical practice guidelines for managing osteoporosis in at-risk men.
June 18, 2012
CT screening of COPD patients could boost cancer detection
By James Brice
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may carry a high enough risk for lung cancer to qualify them along with middle-aged smokers for annual low-dose CT lung cancer screenings -- even though they aren't covered under recently released guidelines.
June 18, 2012
ISCT: Dose-reduction technique explores reader perceptions
By Eric Barnes
SAN FRANCISCO - An evolving CT dose-reduction technique looks beyond simulated image noise as a measure of image quality, and instead aims to optimize dose based on what the radiologist needs to see, according to a presentation on Monday at the International Society for Computed Tomography (ISCT) annual meeting.
June 17, 2012
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FFDM fails to lower missed-cancer percentage, study shows
By Kate Madden Yee, Erik L. Ridley
Full-field digital mammography (FFDM) does not improve upon the performance of film-screen mammography, at least in terms of the percentage of missed interval and screening-detected cancers, Norwegian researchers reported in a study published online June 14 in Radiology.
June 17, 2012
Toshiba touts CT study at ISCT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems said that a study to be presented on Monday at the International Society for Computed Tomography (ISCT) meeting in San Francisco found that its adaptive iterative dose reconstruction (AIDR) 3D software can lower dose while maintaining CT image quality.
June 17, 2012
RTOG names TRP subcommittee liaisons
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) has named James Hodge, PhD, as the liaison for the Translational Research Program (TRP) Committee's new immunomodulation subcommittee and Peter Houghton, PhD, as liaison for TRP's sarcoma subcommittee.
June 17, 2012
Fahey becomes SNMMI president
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Frederic Fahey, DSc, has taken the reins as president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) for the next 12 months.
June 17, 2012
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Federal suit names Fla. radiation oncologists, hospitals
By Cynthia E. Keen
Two radiation oncologists who run the radiation therapy departments at one hospital and a large multispecialty clinic in Pensacola have been hit with federal charges that they billed Medicare and other government healthcare agencies for procedures without providing supervision as required by federal law. The hospital and clinic have also been named as defendants in the case.
June 17, 2012
Study shows patients unclear about radiologists' role
By Kate Madden Yee
Radiologists may be the critical link between ordering physicians and patients, but their role is not clearly understood by the patient population -- and that's bad news for the ongoing vitality of the profession, according to a new study published in this month's Academic Radiology.
June 17, 2012
Colonoscopy linked to lower cancer mortality
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Comparing patients who died from colorectal cancer with a larger control group, researchers writing in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found that those who had undergone optical colonoscopy were far less likely to have died.
June 14, 2012
EEG, fMRI help predict early PTSD
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Researchers at Tel Aviv University are using functional MRI (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) to identify people who are more susceptible to longstanding disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) if exposed to a traumatic event.
June 14, 2012
Report ties keepsake ultrasound to fetal gender tests in Canada
By Rosemary Frei
An investigative report has caused a stir in Canada after it revealed that keepsake ultrasound clinics are willing to provide the gender of fetuses before 20 weeks of gestation. This is early enough for women to request an abortion and feeds into the phenomenon of female feticide in some immigrant communities in Canada.
June 14, 2012
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