The U.S. guidelines for the treatment of brain metastases were released Monday at the 2009 Congress of Neurological Surgeons' meeting in New Orleans.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is determined to continue working on changing the Medicare payment system and repealing the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula after failing last week to get enough votes to force an up-or-down vote on S. 1776 (Medicare Physician Fairness Act).

Elekta announced that its Extend for Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA, and is now available in the United States.

Wake Radiology, a multisite radiology group in central North Carolina that performs more than 650,000 procedures annually, has decided it will no longer participate in studies that require personal patient information after the University of North Carolina (UNC) revealed that hackers breached the security of a mammography database.

TomoTherapy has expanded its suite of radiation therapy solutions with the addition of the TomoHD treatment system.

Researchers have identified a biochemical signaling pathway that can protect normal tissues from standard and high doses of radiation while delaying tumor growth, according to an article in Science Translational Medicine.

A new clinical decision support system dubbed ECIS (Electronic Clinical Information System) is GE Healthcares newest addition to its health IT portfolio. Part of its Healthymagination initiative launched in May, GE on Wednesday announced the new CDS at a press conference in New York City hosted by GE CEO Jeff Immelt and the new members of the Healthymagination advisory board of physicians and others that includes two former U.S. Senate majority leaders, Bill Frist, MD, and Tom Daschle, who both spoke on the importance of healthcare innovation to drive up quality and drive out unnecessary cost.

Twenty years of screening for breast and prostate cancerthe most diagnosed cancers for women and menhave not brought the anticipated decline in deaths from these diseases, argue experts in an opinion piece published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.