During a daylong summit on concussions at the White House on May 29, President Barack Obama said that he likely had multiple mild concussions while playing sports and emphasized the importance of educating parents about brain injuries in children, as reported by NBC News. 

Pediatric oncologic PET/MR is a promising modality for the clinical work-up of pediatric malignancies as it performs comparably to PET/CT and provides significantly reduced radiation exposure, according to a study published online May 31 by Radiology.

Stress myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) when conducted five years following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has the potential to pinpoint addition disease in more than half of patients, according to a study published ahead of print May 14 in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.

A group of 44 senators, led by Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), have signed a letter asking Marilyn Tavenner, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), to extend coverage of low-dose CT screening to Medicare beneficiaries at high risk of lung cancer.

The National Parkinson Foundation (NPF) is providing almost $1 million in funding for four major studies in Parkinson's disease, the Foundation announced May 22.

AZTherapies, a Boston-based biomedical company investigating Massachusetts General Hospital-licensed treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD), announced May 23 that the FDA has cleared the path for a phase III clinical trial for ALZT-OP1, a combination of two drugs with the aim of curbing the neurodegenerative disease in its earliest stages.

NTP Radioisotopes SOC Ltd, a subsidiary of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa), produces a quarter of the world's medical radioisotopes used to allow for about 40 million medical diagnostic images every year, making it the third largest producer and supplier globally. This proud South African corporate citizen is situated at the sophisticated Necsa nuclear facility site, west of Pretoria and routinely serves customers in 60 countries on six continents with its range of nuclear radiation-based products and services.

No longer are oncologists settling for vague positive and negative results. Tumors are as varied in their topography as any terrain on the planet and distinct characteristics in texture and morphology are important for tumor staging and predicting survival.