Hamilton Medical Center in Dalton, Ga., has installed 10 of Carestream Health's DR systems in its trauma center, radiology department and outpatient imaging center.

Fujifilm Medical Systems unveiled advances across its imaging and informatics product lines at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago Nov. 27 to Dec. 2. The company also announced that clinical trials of its 3D digital mammography system are slated to begin in the U.S.

Mach 7 Technologies debuted the Keystone Study Split Utility, a CT and MRI segmenting software, which can be used to reduce the time required to split multiregion CT and MR scans into anatomic regions that match the original orders from the RIS and reducing the time required for the newly split studies to be sent to the PACS, at 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago.

Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle have received a $7 million five-year renewal grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (NCI) to continue research in molecular imaging of cancer and its response to therapy. This new award is funded through 2016. 

Roberto R. Gil, PhD, and Rongchao Jin, PhD, of Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh have used nuclear MR to analyze the structure of infinitesimal gold nanoparticles, which could advance the development and use of the tiny particles in drug development.

The Supreme Court has promised to review not only the issue of the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) on the individual mandate, but also of whether the PPACAs Medicaid expansion violates the U.S. Constitution, wrote I. Glenn Cohen, JD, and James F. Blumstein, LLB, in a Dec. 7 perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Pointing to two horrifying incidents that recently focused public attention on the problem of surgical firesboth resulting in serious facial burns to patientsthe FDA has released new publicity around its Preventing Surgical Fires initiative launched in October.

Discredited and obsolete data used in the updated Forrest model, published Dec. 8 in the British Medical Journal, underestimated lives saved by mammography screening by half. The authors comparison of anxiety from false positives to breast cancer deaths is also questionable, according to a Dec. 9 statement issued by the American College of Radiology (ACR).