Mothers-to-be who drink alcohol, even in modest amounts, are putting their babies at risk of facial changes—and the differences may point to effects in the brain.

Reviewing screening breast MRI data from six regional Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) registries representing 49 facilities, researchers have found breast rads performing quite impressively in their respective communities: Their interpretive accuracy from 2005 to 2013 met most BI-RADS benchmarks that are based on expert practice in clinical trials.

SAN DIEGO, June 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Volpara Solutions, Inc. announced an agreement to collaborate with leading mammography education provider, Mammography Educators, LLC ("Mammography Educators"), to create mammography positioning training videos that will be integrated in the recently released Volpara®Enterprise™ 2.0 software.

Warrington, Penn. – June 6, 2017 – Medical device companies CurveBeam and Carestream Health announced a collaboration to support and facilitate education and research for weight-bearing computed tomography imaging.

Pathologists and radiologists at the University of Leicester in the U.K. have shown that postmortem CT with targeted coronary angiography (PMCTA) is capable of replacing most traditional autopsies performed in England and Wales following deaths by natural causes.

An Italian study published online June 3 in Child’s Nervous System shows that cranial ultrasound is a highly specific and sensitive first-step choice for imaging infants who show signs of craniosynostosis. That’s the birth defect in which the plates of the skull fuse too early, causing abnormal head shape and potentially putting injurious pressure on the brain.

Italian researchers have shown how surgeons resecting glioblastomas, the most common and aggressive brain tumors, can use contrast-enhanced ultrasound to guide their view of tumor location, morphologic features, margins and dimensions in real time and for the duration of the entire surgery.

GENEVA, May 31—West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust (West Herts) located in the South East of the UK and Carestream have signed and exchanged contracts to replace the Trust’s existing PACS with a CARESTREAM Vue PACS and Vue VNA. The new five-year contract will be provided as a Managed Service, including software, services, workstation and server hardware.