January 20, 2010 - Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide. Treatments for the disease have changed markedly over the last decade as a result of guidelines issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 1999, which stated that chemoradiotherapy should be considered as an alternative to radiotherapy.

January 20, 2010 - First Coast Oncology in Jacksonville, Fla., employs a technique for whole breast irradiation that is designed to target and deliver a boost dose accurately and reliably to the lumpectomy cavity margin.

January 20, 2010 - Fairfield Memorial Hospital and Piedmont Family Practice at York, a clinic, are the latest facilities in South Carolina to install a new PACS for its rural facilities in the region.

Janaury 20, 2010 - The Democrats were going to need all 60 votes from its caucus in the Senate for the reconciled healthcare reform bill to pass, but the election of Republican Scott Brown to fill the seat of the late Edward Kennedy (D-MA) has, according to the American College of Radiology (ACR), "complicated the next steps in the process to enact healthcare reform."

January 20, 2010 - Doppler ultrasound is a well established technique used to diagnose problems during pregnancy, and it may prove especially useful in high-risk pregnancies to monitor a fetus' health may reduce caesarean sections and the number of babies who die, according to a new Cochrane Systematic Review.

January 20, 2010 - The IHE 2010 North America Connectathon demonstrated the efficacy of electronic health record system connectivity and interoperable exchange of patient health data with standards-based systems.

January 20, 2010 - Nearly $1 million of medical equipment and supplies donated by a leading medical manufacturer is being shipped today to Haitia for a team of Caritas Christi clinicians headed to Sacre Coeur Hospital, in Milot, Haiti, north of Port-au-Prince, to use to treat victims of the recent earthquake.

January 20, 2010 - The first FDA-cleared contrast imaging agent for use with a magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) indication to evaluate aortoiliac occlusive disease (AIOD) and suspected peripheral vascular disease enters the U.S. market today.

January 19, 2010 - There has been much controversy surrounding vertebroplasty, a minimally invasive treatment performed by interventional radiologists under imaging guidance, stabilizes collapsed vertebra with the injection of medical-grade bone cement into the spine.

January 19, 2010 - Automated breast ultrasound system (ABUS) is used as an adjunct to mammography for B-mode ultrasonic imaging of a patient’s breast when used with an automatic scanning linear array transducer.

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