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W.Va. House Panel Approves Bill Requiring Information About Ultrasounds Before Abortions
The West Virginia House Health and Human Resources Committee on Monday voted 16-9 to approve a bill (HB 4517) that would require physicians to give women the opportunity to view an ultrasound image at least one hour before performing an abortion, the Charleston Gazette reports. According to the Gazette, the rule would only apply to cases where ultrasound technology already is being used...
AdMeTech Hails New Research That Shows Promise Of MRI To Discriminate Aggressive Prostate Cancer From Dormant Disease
New preliminary data from a pilot study in the Netherlands indicates that imaging tools may help address the most challenging clinical dilemma of prostate cancer care as identified by the hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and its expert witnesses last week: to treat or not treat, AdMeTech Foundation's President and CEO Dr. Faina Shtern said today...
Tumors May Respond To Extreme And Moderate Heat
Aided by ultrasound guidance, treating tumors with extreme heat or moderate heat may provide a possible therapeutic option, according to early research presented at the second AACR Dead Sea International Conference on Advances in Cancer Research: From the Laboratory to the Clinic, held March 7-10, 2010...
In U.S. Imaging First, Prenatal MRI Detects Rare Genetic Disease In Newborn
In a case believed to be a United States first, the radiology team at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital has used prenatal magnetic resonance imaging to detect an often-misdiagnosed genetic disease. The disorder, congenital chloride diarrhea, can cause severe dehydration and serious metabolic disturbances in newborns if not treated quickly...
TechniScan Teams With Researchers At UC San Diego In Clinical Study With Warm Bath Ultrasound(TM) System
TechniScan, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TSNI) ("TechniScan" or the "Company"), a medical device company engaged in the development and commercialization of an automated breast ultrasound imaging system, announced that it has commenced phase two of its grant study at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Moores Cancer Center...
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT) To Launch New Brain Research Effort With Acquisition Of Elekta MEG Technology
Researchers at MIT are eagerly anticipating the summer delivery of Elekta Neuromag®, a system that uses magnetoencephalography or MEG to explore brain function. MEG can detect the very weak magnetic fields arising from electrical activity in the brain, and allows researchers to monitor the timing of brain activity with millisecond precision...
FDA Clears biospace med's SterEOS 2D/3D Workstation For Pediatric Use In Spine
biospace med announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) to market the Company's sterEOS 2D/3D workstation for pediatric use in spine applications. The Company's EOS ultra-low-dose imager previously has been FDA-cleared for use in pediatrics and adults, while sterEOS has previously been FDA-cleared for adult use in spine...
MRI Finds Tumors In Second Breast Of Women Diagnosed With Cancer In One Breast
Postmenopausal women, including those over 70 years old, who have been newly diagnosed with cancer in one breast have higher cancer detection rates when the other breast is scanned for tumors with MRI, compared to premenopausal women, say researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida. They found that 3...
West Va. House Committee Holds Public Forum For Abortion Ultrasound Bill
The West Virginia House Health and Human Resources Committee on Friday held a public hearing in consideration of a bill (SB 597) that would require doctors to offer women seeking abortions the opportunity to view an ultrasound image of the fetus if an ultrasound is considered the standard of care, the AP/Charleston Daily Mail reports...
Intermountain Healthcare And Toshiba Announce Ultrasound Substudy Of FaCTor64 - Speckle Tracking By Echo
Cardiovascular death is the most common cause of mortality among Type 2 diabetics and claims the lives of millions each year, with many diabetics experiencing their first "symptom" as a heart attack or sudden death. Understanding that diabetics are at high risk for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) and that many with the disease are asymptomatic, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc...
Axis Surgical Technologies, Inc. Received 510(k) Clearance For The C-MOR(TM) Visualization Device
Axis Surgical Technologies, Inc., announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to market their C-MORâ„¢ Visualization Device for use in diagnostic and operative arthroscopic and endoscopic procedures...
Adaptable To The Patient, The Clinician And The Procedure
South London Healthcare NHS Trust is now benefiting from advanced diagnostic CT with the installation of a SOMATOM® Definition AS from Siemens Healthcare at Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup. The 64-slice CT is highly adaptable to the patient, the clinician and the task at hand. It is being used at the hospital for a range of general scanning needs, particularly oncology...
Positron Sells Attriusâ„¢ PET Scanner To Ochsner Health Systems
Positron Corporation (OTCBB:POSC) a molecular imaging solutions company focused on Nuclear Cardiology, announced the sale of its AttriusTM PET scanner to Ochsner Health System of Louisiana...
Brain Scans Could Be Marketing Tool Of The Future
Using advanced tools to see the human brain at work, a new generation of marketing experts may be able to test a product's appeal while it is still being designed, according to a new analysis by two researchers at Duke University and Emory University...
European Congress Of Radiology 2010: Siemens Introduces Innovations For Imaging And Diagnostics
One of the most important challenges facing hospitals and practices is the optimization of their workflows. An ever increasing amount of data from various modalities must be evaluated in less and less time. Moreover, the quality of patient care should improve and the costs for healthcare should at the same time be cut...
Okla. Supreme Court Upholds Lower Court Decision Against Antiabortion Ultrasound Law
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has upheld a lower court's decision that a 2008 state law (SB1878) with several antiabortion provisions is unconstitutional because it covers more than one subject, the Oklahoman reports (Bisbee, Oklahoman, 3/4). The law would have required an ultrasound before an abortion and would limit women's access to mifepristone, which is used in medical abortion (AP/NewsOn6...
Varian Medical Systems To Highlight Leading Solutions For Digital X-Ray Imaging At The ECR Annual Meeting
Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (NYSE: VAR), X-Ray Products, will be showcasing its full line of PaxScan® X-ray image detectors for filmless imaging at the European Congress of Radiology Annual (ECR) meeting in Vienna, Austria from March 4 - 8, 2010. Varian will also highlight X-ray tubes for fluoroscopy, angiography, cardiology and cone-beam CT imaging...
Detecting Brain Tumors Earlier With One Scan
Next generation technology is set to revolutionize medical imaging by enabling earlier detection of brain tumors with one scan, improving the diagnosis and therapy of cancer, and increasing patient throughput in hospitals, according to news of a pioneering UK project...
Novel MRI Sensor Provides Molecular View Of The Brain
MIT neuroscientists have designed a new MRI sensor that responds to the neurotransmitter dopamine, an achievement that may significantly improve the specificity and resolution of future brain imaging procedures...
The Excel Edition From Siemens: Affordable Performance In 16 And 64 Slice Computed Tomography
At the European Congress of Radiology (ECR ) 2010, Siemens Healthcare will be introducing their Excel Editions for computed tomography. With its favorable price/performance ratio, this new scanner family makes it easier for hospitals and practices throughout the world to enter the world of computed tomography...
Ky. House Committee Rejects Abortion Ultrasound Bill For Fourth Consecutive Year
The Kentucky Health and Welfare Committee has rejected a prescriptive bill (SB 38) that would have required abortion providers to perform an ultrasound and offer the woman a chance to view the image before the procedure, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports (Yetter, Louisville Courier-Journal, 2/26)...
Concerns About Unnecessary Scans And Radiation Risk Prompt Reviews By Doctors
Business Week reports on a study that finds 1 in 4 MRI and CT scans are inappropriately recommended by doctors. The study appears in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. The researchers analyzed 459 scans at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. "'Of the 459 reviewed, 74 percent were considered appropriate and 26 percent were considered inappropriate...
UNC Physicians Leaders In New Radiation Treatment Guidelines
The culmination of a two-year effort to review available studies and establish new guidelines for the safe treatment of cancer with radiation therapy was published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics...
TechniScan Launches 3-D Breast Ultrasound Clinical Study In Freiburg University
TechniScan, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TSNI) ("TechniScan" or the "Company"), a medical device company engaged in the development and commercialization of an automated 3-D breast ultrasound imaging system, announced that in collaboration with University Medical Center Freiburg in Germany, it has launched a clinical study to assess clinical utility of TechniScan's Warm Bath Ultrasound...
World-Renowned Radiologist Speaks Out On The Over-Use, Radiation Exposure, And Expense Of CTs Ordered For Women With Acute Pelvic Conditions
In a bold, eye-opening editorial in the March 2010 issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Harvard Professor, Beryl Benacerraf, MD, urges the medical community to use ultrasound instead of Computed Tomography (CT) as the first-line imaging test for better diagnosis capability in the evaluation of acute female pelvic and lower abdominal conditions...
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