Diagnostic screening programs help catch cancer, abnormalities or other diseases before they reach an advanced stage, saving lives and healthcare costs. Screening programs include, lung, breast, prostate, and cervical cancer, among many others.
Breast density is most often discussed within the context of cancer risk, but new research suggests that it also could be used as a marker of cardiometabolic health.
The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer.
St. Jude Medical received FDA approval for two of its implantable technologies: the Ellipse implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) and the Assura portfolio of ICDs and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds).
The Markle Foundation has published an addendum to its 2006 Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework for Private and Secure Health Information Exchange (Markle Common Framework), updating a range of issues with information gleaned from the rapid changes made on the health IT front over the past few years.
The FDA has approved Boston Scientifics Ingenio and Advantio pacemakers and Invive cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers. The company simultaneously launched the devices in the U.S.
National Jewish Health in Denver is launching a lung cancer screening trial that will combine a CT chest scan and the EarlyCDT-Lung blood test, and will seek to build on recent research demonstrating that CT screening alone can reduce lung cancer mortality.
Long periods of fasting prior to contrast-enhanced CT, particularly restrictions on fluid intake, vary widely throughout the world, and may ultimately be unnecessary, according to a study published in the May issue of Radiology.
Carestream has launched software tools addressing quality and exposure control, pediatric and intensive care unit imaging and print output for three of its CR systems.
The FDA has cleared ProUroCare ProUroScan elasticity mechanical imaging system, which produces color images of men's prostate glands as an aid in detecting prostate abnormalities that were previously detected by digital rectal exam.
The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.
CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.
