PET scans accurately assess severity of disease and predict who will respond best to treatment, even though the procedure is highly experimental.
The Institute of Medicine's recommendations to ensure sleepy residents don't make mistakes could hurt rad residents' education and be costly, according to some radiologists.
The radiopharmaceutical company hopes to open a 640-acre depleted uranium processing plant in southeast New Mexico.
Organovo to ship its first batch of "bioprinters," which can create three-dimensional tissue constructs, by spring.
GammaLoc, a gamma camera-guided breast imaging system for automated needle biopsies, gets cleared by the FDA.
Stryker Corporation announced it had finished its $525 million all-cash purchase of medical device refurbishers Ascent Healthcare.
GE Healthcare acquired the license to a new molecular imaging agent that could be useful in diagnosing heart attacks and monitoring how well tumors respond to drugs, the company reports. Get an early glimpse of the promising project.
Watch the video to see how Resonance Technology is making MR scans a little more patient-friendly.
The American College of Cardiology takes on Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius over Medicare physician payment cuts they say will drive cardiologists out of private practice.
An implantable hearing aid made from the same technology as pacemakers got unanimous approval from a panel of ear, nose and throat specialists advising the FDA.
Scientists reduce false positives by cranking up the noise.
The fate of the final form of the medical tax hangs in the balance while the Senate and House are left to hash out a compromise bill.
New PET biomarker gives "fingerprint" for cancer, possibly allowing doctors to separate benign from malignant masses for the first time with PET imaging.
The DOTmed News camera crew met with Shina Systems to see why their new 3D-imaging software is clear with cloud computing.
A minimally invasive robotic surgical technique for mouth and neck cancers got the nod from the FDA.
Mounting evidence suggests that a hormone that spikes during pregnancy could protect the brain following a traumatic injury, according to a paper published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
A state-of-the-art DR system and a film digitizer for CR that creates images in under 13 seconds are two of AGFA Healthcare's latest offerings at RSNA. See them in action in the video.
Researchers in the UK use stem cells to restore sight to patients with damaged corneas.
Claustrophobia tops the list of reasons why women advised to get MR screening for breast cancer opt out.
At RSNA 2009, Barco met with DOTmed News to discuss their latest 10 million pixel medical display and their purchase of FIMI.
Want to know whether a patient recovering from brain surgery will need to go back to the operating room? Clinical evaluations might prove more valuable than CT scans, according to a new study.
Nature's humblest organisms might one day power micro-sized machines, if research reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pans out.
Wacom met with the DOTmed News team at RSNA 2009 to show why, in radiology, the pen could be mightier than the mouse.
Covidien continues to carry out its pledge of dropping relatively underperforming businesses, turning over its U.S. radiopharmacy segment to Triad Isotopes.
At RSNA 2009, Philips Women's Healthcare introduced the Integral Breast Workstation, a new product they hope will be a life-raft for radiologists "drowning in data."
To make up for a dearth in organ donations, Israel to give priority to those who have signed donor cards.
A less invasive method of breast biopsy appears to be nearly as effective as open surgical ones to determine if a growth in the breast is cancerous, according to a report issued this month by a government-convened panel.
The already troubled world supply of medical isotopes could face a tighter squeeze as the Dutch High Flux reactor goes offline next year for almost six months of repairs.
IMRIS CEO David Graves met with the DOTmed News camera crew at RSNA 2009 to talk about his business' latest interventional MRI suite.
ACR responds to the week's top story on CT cancer death forecasts.
Twelve years after the FDA first got involved in PET drugs, they've at last released final rules controlling their manufacture -- rules which could place a burden on smaller drug producers, according to an industry group.
In this DOTmed News video, Philips global executives lead you through a virtual tour of their sprawling RSNA 2009 booth.
Working with scientists at the National Institutes of Health, Philips Research has come up with an experimental "cockpit" they hope will help doctors perform liver-tumor radiofrequency ablations more accurately, so they can tackle larger tumors.
Microsoft continues to muscle into the increasingly lucrative HIT sector with its purchase of Sentillion.
Scientists and CEOs advise the Canadian government on options to make up for the expected medical isotope shortage as the aging National Research Universal reactor, Canada's isotope-producing workhorse, nears the end of the road.
By combining functional information from PET imaging with structural insights from MR scans, Philips hopes to be able to catch neurodegenerative diseases while there still might be time to help.
Akram Abdelaal, president of Express Systems and Parts Network, Inc., met with DOTmed News at RSNA 2009. Listen to why he's still going to Arab Health 2010 despite Dubai's fiscal crisis.
DOTmed News meets up with RIS-provider Medinformatix at RSNA 2009 to talk about how their system can streamline billing.
Last week at RSNA 2009, our camera crew caught up with Donald Barry, Ph.D., product general manager for X-ray of ContextVision, to talk about the latest products for lowering radiation exposure from imaging studies.
Ian Alpert, president of Smithtown, NY-based Tandem Medical Equipment, met with DOTmed News at RSNA 2009 last week.
Now at a clinic near you: bionic fingers that can help partly amputated digits get a strong grip.
An "old-new" ultrasound technique that measures the stiffness of tissue comes into its own at RSNA 2009.
Arab Health 2010 is just around the corner, offering entree into what is potentially an $80 billion market. Visit DOTmed in Dubai at Booth 2A50.
Amid worries over medical radiation exposure, vendors are looking to software and gadgets that help keep images sharp, and patients and radiologists safe.
Mammography helps doctors detect breast cancer, but could it cause it? Scientists from the Netherlands suggest that for high-risk women, the answer might be yes.
Architecture firm specializing in oncology facilities opens a new office in the Emerald City.
An ultrasound technique that measures stiffness of tissue dramatically improves detection rates in finding breast cancer, according to a presentation at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Many patients going in for an abdominal CT scan get additional series largely intended only for patients with kidney problems, according to a study presented at the Radiological Society of North American (RSNA).
ONI Medical Systems completes sale of its MRI division to GE Healthcare.
Privately held Medical Imaging Holdings, Inc., after several high-profile purchases, takes on a new name to reflect its new focus. Read a DOTmed exclusive report on the newly named company.
