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Research published in the December issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine suggests that SPECT, when combined with low-dose CT, can provide an accurate diagnosis for pulmonary embolism.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has entered a cooperative agreement with Michigan State University (MSU) to provide financial assistance to design and establish the university's Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich., to design and establish the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, a research facility to advance understanding of nuclear isotopes and the evolution of the cosmos.
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A 3D breast MRI imaging technique developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison could reduce biopsies for patients at high risk of developing breast cancer.
Professors from Michigan State University (MSU) have received nearly $400,000 for cardiovascular research from the National Institutes of Health via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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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.