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The European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) and the European Society of Radiology (ESR) conducted a survey on the status of PET/SPECT/CT multimodality imaging practices in Europe--the results of which are published in the January issue of European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
Research presented at the 2009 European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) conference in Barcelona, Spain, suggests that FDG PET is useful in monitoring response to antimycobacterial treatment in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and can direct alternative therapy in case of resistant disease.
FDG PET/CT could be useful in the diagnosis of clinically suspected spondylodiscitis in patients with persistent back pain, according to a presentation last week at the 2009 European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) congress in Barcelona, Spain.
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Written by Manjula Puthenedam
The 2009 congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) saw an uptick in attendance by both delegates and industry representatives, according to 2009 EANM Congress President Joseph Martin-Comin, MD.
Eckert & Ziegler has awarded travel grants to five nuclear medicine researchers from Germany, Italy, Poland and Switzerland at the 2009 European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) conference in Barcelona, Spain.
GE Healthcare has debuted its Discovery NM/CT 670, a hybrid nuclear imaging platform which combines the company’s BrightSpeed Elite 16-slice CT and a new SPECT gantry, at the 2009 European Association of Nuclear Medicine congress in Barcelona, Spain, this week.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.