Leaders in medical imaging
In a study released last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that goals for cancer screening rates in the U.S. are not being reached. Read More
Oncologists, researchers, patients, advocates, and healthcare professionals convened in San Francisco last week for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)’s Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. Included in the groundbreaking research that was highlighted at the meeting was the role of PET/CT in diagnosing and managing care for patients with gastrointestinal cancers. Read More
This week’s must read: cancer screening rates low for minorities and uninsured, how combination therapy can add years to your life, keeping track of health screenings, January is national cervical cancer month and positive new results for CT lung screening. Read More
This week’s must read: U.S. aims for effective Alzheimer’s Treatment Strategy by 2020, repeat CT detects delayed hemorrhages in head trauma victims, proton radiation therapy effective against prostate cancer and researchers develop an MRI robot. Read More
This month, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius announced an initial draft of the federal government’s strategic plan to combat Alzheimer’s disease. Read More
Breast cancer deaths are preventable through regular screenings, however the disease remains the second leading cause of death among women in the U.S. Read More
This week’s must read: medical physicists say fear of diagnostic radiation is overblown, decade of research shows that PET effectively detects dementia, new device detects cancer at cellular level and the U.S. may allow digital x-ray to monitor black lung in miners. Read More
The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) released a statement this week saying that fearful claims about radiation dose in diagnostic imaging procedures are excessive. Read More
Using laser-induced ultrasound, researchers from the University of Missouri have been able to detect melanoma at the cellular level, “long before tumors have a chance to form.” Read More
In a recent online survey, changes in mammography screening guidelines were voted as one of the top three most practice-changing medical news stories of 2011. Read More
MITA released a report yesterday detailing the troubling impact of insurance coverage denials on patient access to medical imaging procedures. Data gathered by the Patient Advocacy Foundation (PAF) show that denials for patients seeking potentially life-saving medical imaging services have doubled in the past four years. Of even greater concern is the finding that 90 percent of the reversed denials for imaging services were actually covered by patients’ health plans. And on average, PAF’s professional case managers required 15.4 contacts per patient case to resolve the imaging issue, meaning it took on average more than 15 phone calls, letters or emails to determine why the imaging test was being denied coverage. Read More
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