October 14, 2021 — Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket approval (PMA) of its SoftVue 3D Whole Breast Ultrasound Tomography System (SoftVue) for use as an adjunct to digital mammography in the screening of asymptomatic women with dense breast tissue.

October 11, 2021 — Electrical engineering professor Magda El-Shenawee’s effort to develop a more accurate and less-invasive method for detecting breast cancer will benefit from a $424,545 grant from the National Institutes of Health.

October 11, 2021 — To maintain safety in radiation therapy (RT), every machine performance and patient delivery measurement must be as accurate as possible. For the Medical Physics department, Patient Quality Assurance (QA) begins with treatment planning, and continues through pre-treatment delivery and in-vivo monitoring. Likewise, the Medical Physics department is also responsible for Machine QA, including daily, monthly and annual QA testing, as well as imaging, VMAT and MLC QA.

October 8, 2021 — An analysis of nearly 200,000 patients who received mammograms between 2006 and 2015 across three U.S. health systems underscores the importance of understanding the heterogeneity of breast cancer risk factors for women of differing races, ages, and disease subtypes. The study, led by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, were published in Cancer Medicine.

October 8, 2021 — HealthLevel, Inc., innovator of Foundations, a business operations analytics platform for healthcare institutions, announced the successful deployment of its comprehensive enterprise analytics solution across the Veterans Health Administration's VISN 8 network in Florida.