The Virginia Zoo veterinary team partnered with a team from Sentara Heart Hospital to perform ultrasound on the hearts of orangutans Pepper and Schnitz as part of the animals’ annual wellness checkups at the Zoo’s state-of-the-art veterinary hospital.

IBA announced the release of its myQA global quality assurance platform. myQA offers full support throughout all quality assurance (QA) applications and provides the user access to their various software modules and data from one platform, anytime and anywhere.

Agfa HealthCare will unveil enhancements to its suite of technologies during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference that are designed to integrate multiple points of data consolidation and access with its Enterprise Imaging platform. The new capabilities will be on display at the HIMSS15 Annual Conference & Exhibition, April 12-16, 2015, in Chicago.

Digisonics will showcase its latest offerings to streamline reporting workflow and improve overall turnaround times at this year’s Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference in Chicago.

The World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS) announced the kick-off of a collaboration with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to promote best practices for co-clinical trials. The end goal of the collaboration is to speed the discovery of more and better treatments for cancer and other diseases.

The German Lung Cancer Screening Intervention Trial (LUSI) shows the early repeat scan rate for suspicious findings decreased by more than 80% with the second and subsequent low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screens. At the same time, study results emphasize the need to have an organized screening program with the baseline scan available for comparison.

A new study found that women who received a text message reminder about their breast cancer screening appointment were 20 percent more likely to attend than those who were not texted. The study was published in the British Journal of Cancer.

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