State Senator Joe Simitians (D-Palo Alto) bill, which is aimed at increasing breast cancer detection, passed the California State Senate last week on a vote of 34 to five.

The Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC) stated it supports the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights' (OCR) proposed rule issued last week furthering privacy protections for patients.

Combining two imaging agents with dual isotope SPECT/CT provides diabetic patients an excellent infection screening method that has already spared a number of patients from aggressive amputation of infected feet, according to an ongoing study presented at SNM's 58th annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

A perspective published June 1 in New England Journal of Medicine called for a novel care delivery model to sustain community health centers (CHCs) and preserve access to care for Medicaid beneficiaries and other low-income patients while controlling costs.

WASHINGTON, D.C.Although quantitative imaging is radiologys new frontier, it is not actively used now because its complicated. Informatics can help radiology move forward with quantitative imaging, said Daniel L. Rubin, MD, assistant professor of radiology Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, Calif., last week during the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM).

Cardinal Health is launching the Center for the Advancement of Molecular Imaging, its new laboratory, which it plans to open in July 2011. The company is previewing the new center at this week's SNM annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

In diabetic patients, fatty acid metabolism or perfusion mismatch obtained from dual SPECT using I-123 beta-methyl iodophenyl pentadecanoic acid (BMIPP)-TL, a medical isotope bound with an agent that is metabolized by the heart to image the fatty acid uptake of heart muscle cells, is a useful prognostic tool for adverse cardiac events, according to a study presented this week at the SNMs annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

Researchers discussed the effect that breathing irregularities have on the accuracy of 4D PET scans and outlined a PET imaging method that reduces motion artifacts or image blurring arising from respiratory motion, according to a study presented this week at SNM's 58th annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas. The researchers said that non-gated PET imaging with 4D CT may be useful for imaging patients who do not benefit from the use of respiratory gating, most notably patients with erratic breathing.