The overriding philosophy guiding the entire approach to patient care for the Women’s Imaging Center of Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH) is the need to create a comprehensive medical environment where a woman can receive all of the services she needs in one location and in one day.

Women’s imaging specialists have acknowledged it for some time, but now the American Cancer Society has issued guidelines that underscore the value of MRI breast cancer screening for high-risk women. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that when cancer is diagnosed in one breast, the other should undergo an MRI exam.

Bold headlines across consumer media sites like CNN and Reuters recently stated, “MRI scans might prevent breast cancer.”
Radiologists who have followed the debate comparing MRI breast to mammography through the medical journals might say – it’s not that simple.

September 7, 2007 - Carestream Health Inc. will showcase its 2000RT CR Plus computed radiography system designed specifically for radiation oncology professionals, at the European Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO) bi-annual meeting in Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 8 to Sept. 13, 2007.

September 7, 2007 - Varian Medical Systems is demonstrating its full range of technologies and products aimed at improving the speed and precision of radiotherapy at the 2007 European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO) meeting in Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 8 to Sept. 13, 2007.

September 6, 2007 – According to a new report by Datamonitor, significant progress is being made with research into the disease and innovative new therapies may be able to improve survival of brain cancer patients.

The most aggressive and most common form of brain cancer is known as glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), accounting for over half of all brain tumors diagnosed each year. Datamonitor predicts that there will be around 26,000 new cases of GBM diagnosed in the seven major markets in 2007. In the US alone, around 14,000 people will die from brain cancer in 2007.

September 6, 2007 - Findings of the 10th Annual International Pressure Ulcer Prevalence Survey (IPUPS) show the potential for cutting half the pressure ulcers in acute care facilities and dramatically reduce hospital-acquired pressure ulcers through specially designed prevention programs.

September 6, 2007 - Iomai Corp. said it began dosing in a Phase 1/2 study to assess the safety and dose-sparing capability of the company's immunostimulant patch when used in combination with an injected H5N1 influenza vaccine.

September 6, 2007 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued the most sweeping rule changes for hospital reimbursement since 1983.
The new regulations, which affect acute care hospitals nationwide, go into effect October 1, 2007, and will have significant impact on how hospitals are reimbursed for in-patient services (IPPS), according to recently completed studies by American Hospital Directory.

September 6, 2007 - A biomedical engineer at Purdue University has developed a new method to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation that promises to be more effective than standard CPR, because it increases blood flow through the heart by 25 percent over the current method.
A new technique is needed because conventional CPR has a success rate of 5 percent to 10 percent, depending on how fast rescuers are able to respond and how well the procedure is performed. For every one minute of delay, the resuscitation rate decreases by 10 percent.

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