Researchers in the United Kingdom are testing whether an oxygen treatment given to injured soccer players can help alleviate side effects suffered by pelvic cancer patients.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is requesting that some stakeholders resubmit comments on proposed rules for the 2010 Physician Fee Schedule and Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System/Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System, according to an Aug. 26 notice in the Federal Register.

The Dartmouth-New Hampshire lung diseases partnership has been awarded almost $2 million in economic stimulus funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to install a fiberoptic backbone that will link higher education and research institutions for large-scale collaborative regional studies.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are asking for industry help through an official Request for Information in determining the current status of the U.S. health IT infrastructure, and the steps needed to be taken to further develop that infrastructure.

A partnership between the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and GE Healthcare has enabled the facility to add capacity for new operating room (OR) procedures.

Six additional veteran patients received incorrect doses of radiation during brachytherapy treatment for prostate cancer at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, raising questions about whether still more cases are yet to be discovered in the ongoing investigation, according to a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

IsoRay has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its premarket notification for Proxcelan Cesium-131 brachytherapy seeds, allowing the company to preload Cesium-131 into flexible braided strands and surgical mesh.

A new survey has found that utilization rates for radiation therapy (RT) equipment used in freestanding cancer treatment centers are closer to the current assumed rate of 50 percent rather than the 90 percent proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in the Medicare physician fee schedule proposed rule for 2010.