January 6, 2010 - The American College of Nuclear Medicine (ACNM) is holding its annual meeting Jan. 27-28, 2010, in Albuquerque, N.M., in conjunction with the Society of Nuclear Medicine's (SNM) Mid-Winter Meeting.

January 6, 2010 - While the definition of “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is still pending, vendors are seeking to get IT products certified in hopes it will soon pay off.

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 - The image quality of multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) scans used for the noninvasive detection of coronary artery disease can be significantly affected by patient characteristics, such as ethnicity, body mass index (BMI), and heart rate.

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 6, 2009 – Despite looming reimbursement cuts to outpatient imaging scheduled to go into effect in 2010, one outpatient center group announced another a new outpatient imaging center in Westbrook Health Center, in Waukesha, Wisc.

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 - Researchers found robust epidemiological evidence that hereditary factors contribute to aneurysm formation in twins, in a new study published in the January issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery. According to the authors, the study emphasizes the importance of evaluating family history in patients with AAA and supports ultrasound scan screening of unaffected siblings.

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.

January 5, 2010 - Sexual function in prostate cancer patients receiving external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) decreases within the first two years after treatment, but then stabilizes and does not continuously decline as was previously thought, according to a study in the January 1 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology-Biology-Physics, the official journal of the American Soci

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