February 27, 2020 — Qure.ai, a leading healthcare AI startup has announced that they have raised $16M in a funding round led by Sequoia India and supported by MassMutual Ventures Southeast Asia (SEA). Qure.ai will use this new capital to drive geographical expansion, expand product portfolio and support regulatory clearances.

February 27, 2020 — Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C., recently became the first healthcare facility in the United States to install the Magnetom Lumina 3 Tesla (3T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner from Siemens Healthineers. MUSC’s deployment of the Magnetom Lumina reflects the spirit of its strategic partnership w

February 27, 2020 — Accuray Incorporated announced that Mercy Hospital St.

February 27, 2020 — Emagine Solutions Technology, an award-winning medical software device company located in Tucson, announced that it has received clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to market its VistaScan mobile ultrasound platform. 

February 26, 2020 — In a study of more than 1,000 patients published in the journal Radiology, chest CT outperformed lab testing in the diagnosis of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

February 26, 2020 — Mount Sinai Health System physicians—the first experts in the country to analyze chest computed tomography (CT) scans of patients from China with coronavirus disease (COVID-19)—have identified specific patterns in the lungs as markers of the disease as it develops over the course of a week and a half.

February 26, 2020 — According to a study published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association, abbreviated breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detected significantly more cancers than digital breast tomosynthesis (3-D mammography) in average-risk women with dense breast tissue.

February 25, 2020 — According to newly published research in an article titled Continuation of Annual Screening Mammography and Breast Cancer Mortality in Women Older Than 70 Years, healthy women over the age of 75 years might not benefit from continuing breast cancer screening.

An illustration of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) from the CDC. #coronavirus #COVID19 #COVID-2019 #2019nCoV

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it is working to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) into the United States, but said it is unlikely to do so. The agency said it hopes to slow the spread of the virus to enable more time for the U.S. healthcare system to prepare for its arrival. This was according to comments made at the CDC twice-weekly briefing Feb. 21. 

February 25, 2020 — With initial order of 10 mobile BodyTom computed tomography (CT) scanners ordered in China, Samsung NeuroLogica announced that it will dedicate significant resources to expediting manufacture and shipping of its scanners to help mitigate the growing coronavirus crisis in the country.

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