Pediatric Radiology: Page 89

ACR to oppose future CHAMP-like cuts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiology has dodged a bullet with the passage of a the latest version of the Children's Health and Medicare Protection (CHAMP) Act of 2007 that had provisions affecting medical imaging stripped out. But Congress could reprise the cuts in other legislation, an eventuality the American College of Radiology (ACR) of Reston, VA, said it would work to prevent.
September 25, 2007
CHAMP won't include Medicare provisions
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Negotiators from the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate brokered an agreement September 18 to remove Medicare provisions from the House-approved Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act (CHAMP), according to the American College of Radiology (ACR) of Reston, VA.
September 19, 2007
GE launches pediatric DEXA software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., is launching new software designed to help physicians conduct pediatric dual-energy x-ray absorbtiometry (DEXA).
September 16, 2007
JOCD: Imaging growth plate injury means scrutinizing bone-joint stability
By Sydney Schuster
More than 30 million U.S. children under the age of 18 play organized sports. The more young athletes push themselves in the name of spirited competition, the more strain they place on their immature skeletons, which can lead to a condition known as juvenile osteochondritis dissecans (JOCD). AuntMinnie.com talked with musculoskeletal experts on what to look for when assessing JOCD and how to avoid misdiagnosing this increasingly common disease process.
September 3, 2007
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PET becomes a godsend for newborns with hyperinsulinism
By Wayne Forrest
When a severe imbalance of insulin levels is confined to a limited section of a baby's pancreas, PET has shown to be extremely accurate in locating the abnormality at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
August 6, 2007
NeuroLogica signs Children's Hospital Boston
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Portable CT developer NeuroLogica has installed its CereTom portable CT scanner at Children's Hospital Boston in Massachusetts.
July 15, 2007
Lower tube voltage leads to reduced dose in pediatric CT
By Brian Casey
SAN FRANCISCO - Radiation dose can be reduced in pediatric CT imaging without compromising image quality by using lower tube voltages, according to CT pioneer Willi Kalender, Ph.D. Dose could potentially be reduced even further if manufacturers tweaked their systems to enable them to scan at lower energies than those commonly used now, he said at yesterday's sessions of Stanford University's International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT.
June 13, 2007
MRI keeps pace with rapidly evolving musculoskeletal systems of young athletes
By Shalmali Pal
BERLIN - About 35 million kids in the U.S. participate in organized or recreational sports. In general, they concentrate on one sport and train at accelerated levels, resulting in overuse and repetitive stress injuries that are compounded by the delicate nature of a growing musculoskeletal system. At the 2007 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting on Saturday, two presentations focused on pediatric sports injuries and typical MR signs of various chronic musculoskeletal issues.
May 19, 2007
Toshiba lands big Aplio XG sale
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems of Tustin, CA, has landed a contract to install 13 of its new Aplio XG ultrasound scanners at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio.
April 29, 2007
Philips renews support for athlete heart screening
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Royal Philips Electronics, the parent company of Philips Medical Systems, has renewed its support for Team of Physicians for Students (TOPS), a sports physicals event in Phoenix designed to uncover heart conditions that may lead to sudden cardiac death in athletes.
April 26, 2007
AnazaoHealth provides teddy bears for pediatric I-123 MIBG patients
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The nuclear medicine division of AnazaoHealth has launched a program to provide a teddy bear to each child patient receiving an iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine (I-123 MIBG) dose.
March 22, 2007
AuntMinnie.com MarketStat #47: MRI adult versus pediatric patient visit mix
As of IMV's 2006 MRI census survey, 89% of all MRI patient visits were by adult patients, whereas 11% of MRI patient visits were by pediatric patients (in the 0 to 18-year-old age group).
February 15, 2007
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