June 13, 2016 — By combining local radiation therapy and anti-cancer vaccines with checkpoint inhibitors, researchers were able to increase the response rate for these new immunotherapy agents in mice.

June 13, 2016 – While 3-D printing has been around since the mid-1980s, there is accumulating evidence that this technology has the potential to revolutionize the understanding and management of heart conditions. A team of researchers from the Cleveland Clinic created a 3-D model of an aortic valve from a patient with a severe case of calcific aortic stenosis (AS) — narrowing of the aortic valve — to simulate the patient’s beating heart and assess the blood flow, or “hemodynamics.”   

The American College of Radiology (ACR) announced its support of provisions in a new bill that would further delay implementation of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) screening mammography recommendations.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) announced it is one of two beta sites in the United States that will receive the new iSR’obot Mona Lisa. The image-guided system provides urologic surgeons with a tool to diagnose prostate cancer earlier through accurate diagnosis and precise localization that may allow for targeted treatments in the future.