Clinical News: Page 662

Lantheus hires former Bayer director as new CMO

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Lantheus Medical Imaging parent company Lantheus Holdings has named Dr. Istvan Molnar as the company's new chief medical officer (CMO).

January 12, 2020

Life Image, Univ. of Chicago partner on breast study

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Medical image-sharing provider Life Image will provide its Mammosphere breast health data access tool to the University of Chicago to support a large-scale clinical trial for breast cancer screening.

January 12, 2020

AuntMinnie.com Molecular Imaging Insider

By Wayne Forrest

January 12, 2020

Unprotected PACS servers present a security 'disaster'

By Erik L. Ridley

More than 1 billion medical images -- approximately half of which are from U.S. patients -- remain unsecured and accessible using publicly available software, according to new reporting by TechCrunch and Heavy.com in collaboration with German security firm Greenbone Networks. And the problem is only getting worse.

January 12, 2020

FDA clears patient-specific 3D-printed airway stent

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared patient-specific 3D-printed airway stents designed from CT scans by a physician from the Cleveland Clinic.

January 12, 2020

UCI receives $1.2M to study AR use for medical training

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine has received $1.2 million to research the physiological and psychological effects of using augmented reality (AR) technology for medical simulation training.

January 12, 2020

Insurance plays major role in breast cancer disparities

By Theresa Pablos

Racial and ethnic minority women are more likely to be diagnosed with an advanced stage of breast cancer, and insurance may be partly to blame. Insurance status accounted for nearly half of the diagnosis disparity among minority women in a study published online January 9 in JAMA Oncology.

January 12, 2020

Executive health programs buck imaging guidelines

By Abraham Kim

Executive health screening programs at major U.S. hospitals continue to provide CT coronary artery calcium scoring, echocardiography, and other imaging-based screening tests against clinical recommendations, according to a research letter published online January 13 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

January 12, 2020

Virtual reality shows value in x-ray patient positioning

By Abraham Kim

Virtual reality technology enables student radiographers in Australia to simulate the entire process of acquiring an accurate x-ray exam with greater efficiency and ease than with the standard training method of clinical role-play, according to a study published in the February issue of Radiography.

January 12, 2020

FDA offers guidance on angioplasty and specialty catheters

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a draft guidance for premarket submission applications of peripheral percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and specialty catheters.

January 9, 2020

MRI shows slimmer tongue reduces sleep apnea

By Wayne Forrest

Losing weight in your tongue probably isn't one of your New Year's resolutions. But maybe it should be if you have sleep apnea. MR images show that a slimmer tongue can reduce the severity of obstructive sleep apnea, according to a study published online January 10 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

January 9, 2020

AI can differentiate small renal masses on CT

By Erik L. Ridley

An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm can accurately differentiate between benign and malignant small solid masses on multiphase contrast-enhanced CT scans, Japanese researchers reported in a study published online January 8 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

January 9, 2020

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