January 6, 2010 - Hospitals where patients were more likely to receive imaging services during admissions had lower mortality, according to a study published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Researchers set out to examine correlations between the use of four common imaging modalities, CT, MR, ultrasound, and X-ray, and in-hospital mortality and costs.

January 6, 2010 - In a deal 19 million euros, plus an additional earn-out of 10 million euros over the next five years, the medical visual display company Barco completed its acquisition of FIMI, a fully owned subsidiary of Royal Philips Electronics' Healthcare business, on 31 December 2009.

January 5, 2010 - Breast cancer screening should begin at age 40 and earlier in high-risk patients, according to the new recommendations from the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) and the American College of Radiology (ACR) on breast cancer screening, published in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).

January 5, 2010 – Each year in United States, more than a million new cancer cases are diagnosed. Between 30 and 70 percent of these patients will develop a bone metastasis ? an often intensely painful condition, and current pain treatments are not effective for all of these patients.