Swedish researchers are recruiting 100,000 women for KARMA (Karolinska mammogram project for identifying risk factors for breast cancer), a 10-year study of breast cancer risk factors.

The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has awarded $9.56 million over five years to a University of Louisville Health Sciences Center research scientist to form a multicenter network examining cardioprotective therapies at the preclinical level.

The Mayo Clinic has received $100 million to help establish its multi-site Proton Beam Therapy Program.

Because of the hierarchical structure of large academic medical centers, they will have difficulty moving toward an accountable care organization (ACO) model, and will need to adopt a more collaborative structure, according to an editorial published Feb. 2 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

With CT colonography gaining acceptance as an alternative to colorectal cancer screening via colonoscopy, researchers have concluded that an average of 175 studies may amount to sufficient training for novice radiologists and technicians reading the images, according to a study published in the February issue of Radiology.

The FDAs Circulatory System Devices Advisory Panel has recommended expanding the availability of carotid artery stenting to patients at standard risk for adverse events while undergoing surgery.

Biotech company Spectrum Pharmaceuticals has submitted a Post Approval Supplement to the FDA asking the agency to remove the bioscan requirement on the administration of its non-Hodgkin's lymphoma drug Zevalin.

AngioDynamics has acknowledged receiving a warning letter from the FDA regarding certain aspects of the companys marketing program for its NanoKnife system.