Annual lung screenings of older-aged current and former smokers should be conducted more regularly, potentially saving up to 65,000 lives in the U.S. each year, according to findings from the NELSON study presented at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) World Conference on Lung Cancer in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

A new protocol—HEART Pathway—can identify low-risk emergency department patients with chest pain who can be discharged without stress testing or angiography, according to results of a Sept. 28 study published in Circulation.

Using MR/PET imaging, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden have revealed that widespread neuroinflammation correlates with fatigue levels in patients with fibromyalgia, and may enhance the development of treatment, according to research published online Sept. 14 in Brain, Behavior and Immunity.

A group of medical practitioners in Malawi, a country in east Africa, used ultrasound to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) in patients with HIV with the aid of a tele-ultrasonography platform that sent images to U.S-based radiologists, reported authors of a recent Journal of the American College of Radiology study.

“We wanted to develop an anthropomorphic phantom head to help us better understand these issues by providing a safer way to test the imaging. We use the device to analyze, evaluate and calibrate the MRI systems and instrumentation before testing new protocols on human subjects,” Tamer Ibrahim, PhD, and co-creator said.

A 18F-FDG PET/CT scan can reveal previously undetected breast cancer in more than one-third of newly diagnosed male patients, according to research published Sept. 20 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided stent implantation produced better clinical outcomes for heart patients compared to a conventional angiography-guided method, said researchers this week at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting in San Diego, California.

A deep learning-based automatic detection algorithm (DLAD) detected malignant pulmonary nodules on chest x-rays better than radiologists, according to a Sept. 25 study in Radiology.

The World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS) has awarded Robert Gillies, PhD, the 2018 Gold Medal Award to honor his lifetime of research in cancer molecular imaging and cancer biology, according to a WMIS press release.

INSIGHTEC®,a global medical technology innovator of incisionless surgery, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Exablate Neuro™ compatibility for the state-of-the-art MRI Scanners Magnetom Skyra, Prisma and Prisma[fit] from Siemens Healthineers to treat patients with essential tremor (ET).