ZDi Solutions has recently announced the release of its Z-System, an add-on to radiation therapy devices to optimize patient positioning during treatment.

A new PET-guided method to monitoring tumor growth could help doctors identify the ways cancer avoids certain kinds of treatment. Researchers published the results of a trial studying this method in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 

Crunching the data on screening mammography utilization in the wake of the establishment of Medicare’s Shared Savings Program, researchers at Johns Hopkins have found what they’re calling “small but significant” improvements: From 2012 to 2014, participating ACOs grew their screening volumes by a mean of 2.6 percent.

When surveilling cirrhosis-stricken patients for hepatocellular carcinoma—or HCC, the frequently incurable cancer that starts in the liver and sometimes follows cirrhosis—MRI with liver-specific contrast can be a better diagnostic performer than ultrasound, the guideline-recommended screening tool for such situations. 

BOSTON, Sept. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Even amidst all the celebrated advances of modern medicine, basic life-saving interventions are still not reaching massive numbers of people who live in our planet's most remote and non-industrialized locations. 

According to a new study by the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, the recent surge in soccer’s popularity has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of concussions and closed-head injuries (CHIs) among athletes 7 to 17 years of age. 

A study drawing on data from nearly 100,000 patient visits has shown that team training of MRI technologists in patient-calming techniques can boost rates of patient show-ups as well as study completions.

A website offering information about dense breasts, Dense Breast Info, wants women to be aware of their services, even though they aren’t always the first result in an internet search about breast density.