Overall rates of colorectal cancer have been dropping for years. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the disease is on the rise among young people.

Researchers from Harvard have reported a hypothesis that Alzheimer’s disease could be a result of the human brain’s defense system fighting off infection. The team’s findings were published by Science Translational Medicine.

Governor Peter Shumlin signed Vermont’s breast density reporting bill into law this week, making it the 28th state to have such legislation in place. 

ASE says new data may be a “wake-up call” to recognize the value of echocardiography.  

Researchers have developed a new statistical model to estimate the absolute risk of breast cancer to help improve public health strategies and prevention.

Mitsubishi Electric, Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan, and Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, announced this week that they had successfully completed the first 3 tesla MRI with “high-temperature superconducting coils.” 

Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina’s Center for Biomedical Imaging have engineered a lipid nanocarrier capable of carrying a concentrated dose of the chemotherapy drug TMZ directly into the cells of aggressive glioblastoma brain tumors. 

Patients presenting with stroke symptoms have a better chance of receiving advanced neuroimaging if they are male, under 55 or African-American than do patients in none of those demographics, according to a study presented May 25 at the American Society of Neuroradiology’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C.