December 22, 2022 — You are among the women who dutifully gets an annual mammogram. Year after year, the results are ‘normal.’ But after one mammogram you are shocked to feel a breast lump, which turns out to be cancer. The tumor was hidden behind dense breast tissue so the radiologist couldn’t see it and you wish you had known you were among the nearly 50 percent of women with dense breasts to whom this might happen.

December 22, 2022 — The Clinical Labor Coalition—a group of national medical societies representing a broad range of physicians, health professionals and practice managers who care for Medicare beneficiaries in a community-based, office setting—released the following statement in response to Congress’ failure to include targeted monies to mitigate the impact of the clinical labor pricing update policy in the year-end omnibus appropriations package.

December 21, 2022 — The American College of Radiology (ACR) released the following statement in response to Congress’ year-end action in omnibus legislation that includes measures to reduce drastic Medicare physician pay cuts scheduled to take effect

December 21, 2022 — Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä and the Central Finland Health Care District have developed an AI based neural network to detect an early knee osteoarthritis from X-ray images. AI was able to match a doctors’ diagnosis in 87% of cases.

December 21, 2022 — Surgery, especially surgery to remove cancerous tumors, relies on a range of tools and techniques as well as on the skill of the surgeon. Now, new imaging agent Cytalux will make surgery to remove lung cancer tumors a little more exact.

December 20, 2022 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) issued the following statement from ASTRO Board of Directors Chair Geraldine Jacobson, MD, MBA, MPH, FASTRO, in response to today’s 

December 20, 2022 — Fujifilm Corporation's President and CEO, Representative Director: Teiichi Goto, announced the company has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire the global digital pathology business of Tampa, Florida-based 

December 20, 2022 —  Hologic, Inc. launched Project Health Equality (PHE), a unique initiative that strives to address the structural and cultural barriers that prevent

December 19, 2022 —  A new study led by researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS) shows travel time to the nearest mammography facility is long for a considerable proportion of women in the United States, particularly affecting more than 50% of women in rural areas in 28 states. This poor geographic accessibility was associated with a lower number of women getting important breast cancer screening.

December 19, 2022 —  The glymphatic system is the waste clearing pathway of the human brain. It is speculated that an abnormality in this system may be linked with the accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) proteins in our brain, a known pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). A new study by researchers from Japan now show how an impaired glymphatic system in patients with AD may influence specific MRI indicators that can help track AD advancement in a noninvasive manner. 

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