Although breast cancer mortality has fallen in recent years, improvements in treatment rather than mammography screening appear to have affected the decline, according to a study published online July 28 in the British Medical Journal.  

You say you got a real solution. Well, you know we'd all love to see the plan," sang the Beatles in their hit Revolution. This week at the annual Pediatric & Adult Interventional Cardiac Symposium (PICS-AICS), presenters went back and forth as to whether transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) will ever replace aortic valve replacement as the gold standard and whether a greater number of lower risk patients could be safely treated with TAVI in the future.

Philips Healthcare has installed MultiDiagnost Eleva x-ray system at Delray Medical Center and MultiDiagnost Eleva with 3D-RX reconstruction technology at West Boca Medical Center, both located in Florida.

University Hospital Zurich has installed the Ziostation supercomputing functional analytics system from Ziosoft.

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) comprised the majority of 254 cardiac deaths among postmenopausal women with coronary artery disease (CAD), and the independent predictors of SCD improved its prediction when they were considered in addition to left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), based on a study published July 25 in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

A federal jury in Baltimore has convicted interventional cardiologist John R. McLean, of Salisbury, Md., on six healthcare fraud offenses in connection with a scheme in which McLean submitted insurance claims for inserting unnecessary cardiac stents, ordered unnecessary tests and made false entries in patient medical records to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers.

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) recently commented on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notice of propose-rulemaking (NPRM) regarding HIPAA Privacy Rule accounting of disclosures. The disparate organizations had very different opinions on the subject.

Using computer-aided detection (CAD) software to help analyze and interpret mammograms does not improve accuracy, but it does raise a womans risk of being recalled for additional testing, according to a study published online July 27 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. An accompanying editorial suggested the need for further improvements in CAD software and described existing technology as more harmful than beneficial.