Republican Congresswoman Renee Ellmers of North Carolina has joined with Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida to try to hold the tide against the breast-cancer screening recommendations drafted by the U.S. Preventive Service Task Force (USPSTF) this past spring.

When it comes to reducing the number of deaths caused by breast cancer, starting screening mammography at age 40 and continuing it yearly does the job and does it well for at least 10 years after the initial exam. 

Radiology personnel at two large academic hospitals hewed to the Joint Commission’s mandated “dual-identifier” technique to avoid misidentifying patients and/or wrongly dictating reports—but still created a number of near-miss patient events.

On Thanksgiving Day of 2012, Archie Bleyer, MD, and H. Gilbert Welch, MD, published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine linking screening mammography with rife overdiagnosis of breast cancer. The study was soon hotly contested and, in the months since, dozens of peer-reviewed writings exploring the subject have run in medical journals.

Carestream Health entered the radiography/fluoroscopy (R/F) market with two systems that deliver high-quality, cost-effective imaging: the CARESTREAM DRX-Excel and CARESTREAM DRX-Excel Plus. These systems can enhance workflow and perform contrast exams using fluoroscopy that can be associated with a radiography image, in addition to specialized contrast procedures that record both fluoroscopy and radiography sequences and interventional procedures.

“I choose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know that they might be living under the shadow of cancer. It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options.”

Konica Minolta Medical Imaging announced today that the AeroDR wireless flat panel detector is now compliant with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2, a U.S. Government security standard that is required by the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs healthcare facilities for all wireless communications. 

Most parents-to-be want mementos of baby’s first everything, and many obstetricians don’t mind obliging with multiple, often financially rewarding, fetal ultrasound orders—which have been on the rise despite serious doubts about medical necessity.