If you need emergency care, Cincinnati may be the place to be, according to a study by HealthGrades, which identified the top 10 cities for emergency medicine.

The SAMMPRIS trial, initiated to compare aggressive medical therapy alone to aggressive medical management plus angioplasty combined with stenting in patients with symptomatic high-grade stenosis (70 to 99 percent) of a major intracranial artery to prevent stroke, has been halted.

Baptist Health has installed the AccuBoost system for use in radiation treatment following breast cancer surgery.

New recommendations from the American Thyroid Association on outpatient radioiodine (131I) treatment to minimize unintended radiation exposure and maximize the safety of patients, their families and the public have been published in the April issue of Thyroid.

MEDX has introduced the next generation T-Quest compact gamma camera. The FDA-cleared T-Quest includes enhanced thyroid imaging and expanded imaging capabilities to perform parathyroid, sentinel node, Multi Gated Acquisition (MUGA), gastric emptying, hepatobiliary, bone spots and other small organ studies.

Although mortality within the elderly heart failure (HF) population (age 80 and over) has improved over the last two decades, 30-day readmission rates remain lofty, according to the results of a study published online April 5 in Circulation: Heart Failure. Researchers urged that future studies must recognize interventions that can help reduce these cardiac and non-cardiac readmissions.

Seegene has entered a partnership with Samsung Medical Center to co-develop molecular diagnostics for cancer.

Researchers have demonstrated that a process using nanotechnology combined with mass spectrometric analysis can assess whether cancer drugs hit their targets, which may help reduce drug side effects, according to a study published online March 31 in Agnewandte Chemie International Edition.