Simultaneous PET and MRI is providing important diagnostic information about soft tissues and physiological functions throughout the body, and scans focused on screening lesions for cancer are already comparable to more conventional molecular imaging methods, according to preliminary research presented this week at SNM's 58th annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

Thomas Tulip, PhD, has joined radiopharmaceutical developer Neoprobe as executive vice president and chief business officer.

WASHINGTON, D.C.Radiology is not the only specialty with IT management issuesbut for now, it may be the only one that can justify large-scale digital storage, according to a June 4 presentation at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM).

Citrus Valley Health Partners (CVHP), a nonprofit, four-hospital comprehensive health system serving Californias San Gabriel Valley, has named Paveljit Bindra, MD, as its chief medical officer/CMIO.

A little more than a year after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued its interim final rule on e-prescribing controlled substances, 32 states have rules in place that allow electronic transmission of controlled substances, according to the ePrescribing Law Survey, a compendium of state and federal pharmacy statutes and regulations, updated by Point-of-Care Partners (POCP).

Targeting patients undergoing medical imaging procedures or radiation therapy, legislation introduced June 2 by U.S. Reps. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) and John Barrow (D-Ga), would set new education and certification standards for technical medical professionals performing imaging, if ratified. The CARE Act (or Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Act), is sponsored by a bipartisan group of 19 members of the House of Representatives.

Emergency department patients who have recently been hospitalized are more than twice as likely to be readmitted as those who have not recently been in the hospital, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The research will be presented this week at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's annual meeting in Boston.

WASHINGTON, D.C.The CT dose of an individual scan may be just a drop in a bucket, but at present, radiologists know neither the size of the drop nor the rate of emission, making dose tracking inaccurate and dose reduction all the more essential, according to a radiation dose safety session presented June 2 at the annual conference for the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM).