February 6, 2009 - The governing boards of the American College of Radiology (ACR) and the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) have reached an agreement in principle for a strategic integration that would leverage the strengths of each organization and provide the potential for enhanced service to radiologists and medical physicists seeking continuing medical education, quality and safety program

February 6, 2009 - The Association of Residents in Radiation Oncology (ARRO) elected three new members to its executive committee: Karen L. De Amorim Bernstein, M.D., of Albert Einstein College in Bronx, N.Y.; Luqman Dad, M.D., of Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y.; and Vinai Gondi, M.D., of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis., will each serve two-year terms.

February 6, 2009 – Digisonics said its new OB-Windows/OB-View software release 4.4 is now available.

February 6, 2009 - The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine’s (SIIM) scholarship program for radiology residents interested in imaging informatics is open to all trainees in North America who intend to pursue a career in radiology or imaging sciences.

February 5, 2009 – Nearly two thirds of the states in the U.S. experience a slight decrease in mammography utilization between the years 2000 and 2006, according to a study performed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and this rate in low resource areas could be higher.

February 5, 2009 – In the largest study to date to evaluate FDG-PET/CT (Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography) in the initial staging of inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), researchers at M. D.

February 5, 2009 – The presence of a protective pathway meant to shield normal stem cells from DNA damage is the reason stem cells are relatively resistant to the ionizing radiation often used as therapy for these conditions, according to researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine.

February 5, 2009 - Reporting of radiation therapy details in randomized controlled trials for Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is deficient due to a lack of reporting of key radiation therapy descriptors and quality assurance processes designed to ensure the accuracy and reproducibility of treatment regimens, according to a Feb.

February 5, 2009 - Sectra will be showing its advanced Web-based solution at this year’s American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS 2009), to be held from February 25th – 28th h in Las Vegas.

February 5, 2009 - UCLA scientists are using positron emission tomography (PET) to evaluate tumor response to chemotherapy before prescribing therapy, enabling physicians to quickly pinpoint the most effective treatment and personalize it to the patient's unique biochemistry. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published the UCLA findings in its Feb. 2 online edition.

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