Clinical News: Page 2400

MRI reveals meditation's effects on the brain
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
With the help of high-resolution MRI, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have found that people who practice regular meditation have increased brain volume in certain regions.
May 12, 2009
Novation extends Carestream CR deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Group purchasing organization Novation has signed a two-year extension to its computed radiography (CR) supply agreement with Carestream Health.
May 12, 2009
TomoTherapy Q1 sales drop, loss grows
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm TomoTherapy posted a sharp drop in revenue and a growing net loss for the company's first-quarter financial results.
May 12, 2009
GE, Varian Inc. launch 7-tesla MRI unit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare and scientific instruments developer Varian Inc. have launched Discovery MR901, a new 7-tesla MRI scanner for preclinical applications.
May 12, 2009
Evaluating threshold screening mammograms: When to recall?
By Cynthia E. Keen
The goal of every radiologist when reading mammograms is to identify the three to four breast cancers statistically known to be lurking within 1,000 screening mammograms. Dr. Edward Sickles from the University of California, San Francisco recently offered some advice on making appropriate recall decisions with difficult screening mammograms.
May 12, 2009
CMS reconsiders cervical cancer FDG-PET coverage
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medical Services (CMS) has opened a review of its coverage policies on FDG-PET for the staging of cervical cancer following the submission of a petition from several nuclear medicine physicians.
May 11, 2009
VC community awaits CMS decision; MRI contrast finds lymph node metastasis
By Brian Casey
May 11, 2009
IDC's revenue falls in Q1
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A decline in U.S. revenue adversely affected first-quarter results for Canadian digital radiography firm Imaging Dynamics (IDC).
May 11, 2009
Molecular Insight lowers loss in Q1
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Lower drug development costs helped radiopharmaceutical developer Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals reduce its loss in the first quarter of 2009.
May 11, 2009
CMS rejects Medicare coverage for virtual colonoscopy
By Eric Barnes
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) today rejected a proposal to pay for virtual colonoscopy for routine colon cancer screening of Medicare patients in the U.S., saying that VC, while promising for detecting colorectal polyps and cancer, is "not yet ready for widespread screening use."
May 11, 2009
JNM publishes FDG-PET supplement
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The May issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine features an editorial supplement on the usefulness of PET imaging for the treatment of several cancers.
May 11, 2009
PETLinQ launches Web-based application
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PETLinQ has released SoftStationWeb, a thin-client Web-based application designed to view full PET/CT datasets with fused images.
May 11, 2009
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