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Coalition seeks Medicare coverage for aortic aneurysm screening
By Tracie L. Thompson
Seven organizations from the imaging and surgery fields have convinced four U.S. Congressmen to sponsor a bill directing Medicare to cover ultrasound screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA).
March 29, 2004
Emergency ultrasound training improves, but few ER docs meet AIUM guidelines
By Erik L. Ridley
To determine the current state of emergency physician-performed ultrasound, researchers from Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, CT, and Resurrection Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency in Chicago conducted a 10-question Web-based survey to ultrasound/residency directors at 122 emergency medicine residency programs in the U.S.
March 28, 2004
Gamma Medica gets Mayo install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Gamma Medica Instruments has completed installation at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.
March 25, 2004
X-ray protocol improves total knee arthroplasty follow-up
By Radiology Review
(Radiology Review) Dr. Hiromasa Miura and colleagues at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, have developed an oblique posterior radiographic view of the femoral condyles to better demonstrate this aspect of the knee following total knee arthroplasty.
March 25, 2004
Conor Medsystems completes paclitaxel stent trial enrollment
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Vascular device developer Conor Medsystems of Menlo Park, CA, has completed enrollment for a clinical trial evaluating its MedStent paclitaxel drug delivery stent.
March 24, 2004
Columbus Children’s Hospital debuts pediatric radiography device
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A group at the Columbus Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH, has invented a device to immobilize a child in a recumbent position for a radiographic examination.
March 24, 2004
Boston Scientific, EndoTex complete enrollment
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Boston Scientific and EndoTex Interventional Systems of Cupertino, CA, have completed enrollment in a carotid artery stenting clinical trial.
March 24, 2004
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Adenosine begin phase II trials
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Imaging and Adenosine Therapeutics have initiated phase II clinical trials for BMS068645.
March 23, 2004
Patients shape up after viewing CT scans of their own blocked arteries
By Jerry Ingram
Any old picture may be worth a thousand words, but a CT image of a coronary artery calcification (CAC) may be worth a thousand lives: Confronting patients with scans of their arterial blockages could inspire a radical change in lifestyle, as well as better compliance to a treatment regimen, according to a study presented at the recent American College of Cardiology meeting in New Orleans.
March 23, 2004
Turf concerns derail extremity MRI accreditation
By Brian Casey
March 23, 2004
CE US sonography makes the grade for measuring tumor vascularity
By Ultrasound Review
(Ultrasound Review) Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center recently evaluated tumor growth and proliferation using contrast-enhanced sonography to measure vascularity in implanted tumors.
March 23, 2004
Protests stall ACR’s accreditation of extremity MRI shops
By Tracie L. Thompson
Radiologists who oppose the American College of Radiology’s plan to offer accreditation to extremity-only MRI facilities have won at least a temporary victory against the plan, which they believe will enhance self-referring orthopedists at the expense of radiologists.
March 22, 2004
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