This week, New Jersey became the 14 thstate to require mammography reports to include information for patients on breast density status and its implications on the risk of developing breast cancer.

Never-before-seen preclinical fluorescence imaging has broken new ground in the understanding of how memories are formed by nerve cells in the brain.

A partnership between the United Kingdom-based Alzheimer’s Society and the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation is engaged to fund up to $1.5 million for Alzheimer’s drug development programs.

Electron microscopy researchers have been given the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for pushing the technology into the picometer range—or one-hundredth the diameter of a hydrogen atom.

The allocation of limited resources in population management can be bettered by the simulation of the impact of changes in staffing, system parameters, and clinical inputs on the effectiveness and efficiency of care, according to a study published in the February 2014 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 

On Wednesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed legislation requiring mammography reports provided to patients to include information about breast density.

Spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) and high frequency ultrasound (HFUS) are capable of noninvasively mapping optical, physiological, and ultrasound contrasts in human skin tumors for surgery guidance and therapy planning, according to a study published in the February 2014 issue of Academic Radiology.

Imaging protocols for injected contrast agents should consider variation in tissue blood flow due to mammographic compression, according to a study published in the February 2014 issue of Academic Radiology.