May 4, 2016 — Infertility and hormonal fertility treatments may influence the amount of dense tissue in the breast, a risk factor for breast cancer, according to a study, published in the open access journal Breast Cancer Research.

Today Siemens Healthcare unveiled its new brand name, Siemens Healthineers. The company said the new brand underlines Siemens Healthcare’s pioneering spirit and its engineering expertise in the healthcare industry.

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mammography, patient positioning, image deficiencies, FDA, MQSA

May 2, 2016 — In a new report, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suggests that since the passage of the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA), proper patient positioning remains one of the most important aspects of high-quality mammography imaging.

Infinitt North America announced that the company was highlighted in the new KLAS specialty report, “Imaging IT Landscape 2016 Enterprise Platform: The Next Nirvana?”

FDA, CDRH, national evaluation system, medical device development

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it is building the foundations of a national evaluation system to generate better evidence more efficiently for medical device evaluation and regulatory decision-making.

Medicine supposedly aches for a universal viewer, one that can satisfy the needs of every physician — cardiologist, radiologist, dermatologist, orthopedist; and display its images on whatever device — laptop, desktop, tablet or smartphone.

With increased use of computed tomography (CT) scans, radiologists and other experts — including Donald Frush, M.D., medical director of the Duke Medical Radiation Center and a co-author of a new World Health Organization (WHO) report — are urging awareness and accountability around medical scans for children.

The global market for contrast media injectors is set to increase from $830 million in 2015 to almost $1.8 billion by 2022, according to research and consulting firm GlobalData.

May 3, 2016 — Good news for clinicians and their patients: the evaluation of left ventricular (LV) diastolic function using echocardiography just got a bit simpler. New streamlined algorithms have been developed since an earlier joint publication by the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI).

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