An analysis by Alavere Health estimates that new recommendations from the United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) could cause 17 million women to lose guaranteed coverage of preventive breast cancer screenings.

Playing professional football in the NFL has always posed physical risks to the willing athletes lucky enough to find a spot on a roster. With more attention than ever now focused on examining and predicting those risks, researchers—and the players themselves—are discovering more information about just how dangerous the sport can be.

Viztek, the leading provider of complete digital software and hardware diagnostic imaging solutions, today announced the availability of the Basic U-Arm, a new U-Arm digital x-ray system. 

Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. announced today that Maria Piazza has been named director, Ultrasound Business Unit. In her new role, Piazza is responsible for developing and implementing strategic marketing plans that drive growth and profitability for the business unit. 

Summit Imaging, the “urgent care” ultrasound medical equipment support company, today announced that it is expanding its services to support portable ultrasound systems so the company can give clinical engineers who have adopted portable machines the same rapid end-to-end customer support they rely on to keep their static machines up and running.

Researchers at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have used a “cloaking” technique to redesign the wires within the cores of medical implant leads to reduce the dangers of heat-related injury from MRI in affected patients, according to a paper published online in Scientific Reports.

MRI can offer information about a patient’s future risk of developing breast cancer, which in turn could help doctors personalize screening and prevention measures for high-risk women, according to results of a study published online May 12 in Radiology.

NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes LLC has completed its first production-scale test run of the molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) aliquoting system installed at the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) in Columbia, Missouri. The test and subsequent shipment of the resulting Mo-99 to NorthStar’s Madison facility is another milestone in the establishment of domestic production of the vital medical radioisotope.