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Principio, a developer of molecular imaging agents and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals for the treatment of cancer, has obtained an exclusive license to several technologies developed at Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center in Baltimore.
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has announced the recipients of two grants funded by the Radiation Oncology Institute.
Whole-body MRI, because it is more likely to show abnormalities, can help detect chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis, according to a study in the September issue of Radiology.
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MRI-guided percutaneous core needle biopsy of lesions only visible on MR images is safe and provides a high diagnostic yield for the diagnosis of chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO) in children, according to a paper presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago earlier this month.
Seiji Ogawa, PhD, of the Hamano Life Science Research Foundation in Tokyo, who discovered that MRI could be used to measure oxygen flow in the brain in real time, making functional MRI (fMRI) possible, has been named as a possible winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize by researchers at Thomson Scientific, the science unit of Thomson Reuters.
Interventional radiologists are establishing how to use stem cells to create new or more blood vessels to treat peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in individuals with extensively narrowed or clogged arteries. Recent successful techniques use imaging to view and locate transplanted stem cells, and to confirm that they remain alive in the body once injected, according to a study presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) annual conference this week in San Diego.
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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.