Biopharmaceuticals Inc. announced results from two separate studies that compared the performance of Lymphoseek (technetium Tc 99m tilmanocept) Injection, a novel receptor-targeted small-molecule radiopharmaceutical recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with that of radiolabeled sulfur colloid in breast cancer patients undergoing diagnostic evaluation in lymphatic mapping procedures. The studies were presented in oral presentations at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) in Vancouver, Canada.

Imaging Informatics leaders from across the globe gathered in Grapevine, Texas, last week to exchange ideas and network with their peers during the 2013 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). The event included opportunities to earn CME and CE credits while hearing experts from the field discuss key topics, including personalized medicine, decision support and surviving electronic medical record implementation. Two new Learning Tracks were introduced this year: Innovators and Entrepreneurship, and Reinventing the Radiologist.


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Shina Systems announced the new commercial release of its 3Di picture archive and communications system (PACS) solution. Shina Systems' 3Di is a platform that allows clinicians, healthcare providers and patients to view medical images everywhere and for any purpose — from diagnostic image interpretation to intuitive viewing of images in a personal health record.

 

Use of computed tomography (CT) scans — and thus exposure to ionizing radiation — increased over 15 years in children at a set of nonprofit health care delivery systems in a new study. But currently available strategies could greatly reduce this cancer risk, according to the HMORN Cancer Research Network study, published in JAMA Pediatrics.

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