Nonsurgical interventional radiology treatment proves effective.
Breast ultrasound with elasticity imaging promises to be a highly specific method for distinguishing benign from cancerous breast lesions.
Researchers recommend change in patient evaluation to improve care and prevent strokes.
This General Dentistry Practice Program at Howard University Hospital offers the dentist an opportunity for advanced comprehensive clinical experience in a hospital environment.
Jackson Healthcare, a staffing agency based in Georgia, recently launched a free online volunteer opportunity board to connect qualified medical professionals with health-related missions across the globe.
Such implants could one day provide up-to-the-minute information about what a tumor is doing--whether it is growing or shrinking, how it's responding to treatment, and whether it has metastasized or is about to do so.
If you're there, please visit DOTmed at Booth #511 at the SNM 2009 Annual Meeting at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Are you ready for some...Imaging!? The Radiological Society of North America meets for the 92nd year in Chicago next week -- making it the grand-daddy of all medical trade shows. Over 60,000 people will be there, including DOTmed at Booth #8101.
Effort will improve management of adverse events, enhancing patient safety.
More than 20 national health and advocacy organizations sent a letter to President Obama urging focus on health disparities gap.
Despite the recession, enrollment remains strong for Jefferson College of Health Sciences (JCHS), Roanoke, VA.
New technology combines networked patient monitor and advanced life support capabilities to enhance patient safety and simplify in-hospital transports.
Watch out refurbishers, there's a new kid on the block. Positron's joint venture has FDA approval for its Attrius cardiac scanner.
Using ultrasound to ablate brain disorders, excise fibroids and home in on tumors to bombard them with drugs, will be studied using grant money awarded by the Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation.
Edwards Life Sciences first-quarter net earnings more than tripled, due to an asset sale; and from snowballing revenues of its SAPIEN catheter-based heart valve.
Full kidney removal is not always the best treatment for small renal tumors and could lead to chronic kidney disease and increased risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a new clinical guideline issued by the American Urological Association (AUA).
Optimizes precision and comfort of bronchial cancer treatments.
Seventh generation dental technology.
National Cancer Institute announces $35 million in awards to 12 cancer nanotechnology platform partnerships.
Home medical sector will work with Congress to eliminate flawed competitive bidding program.
Patients whose defibrillators were implanted by electrophysiologists--cardiologists trained in device use--had fewer complications.
Industry opinion leader Wayne Webster's insightful column from DOTmed Business News.
Clinicians in India have carried out the country's first treatment using a new, faster form of radiotherapy that extends more advanced care to more patients.
Healthcare reform should start with "evidence-based reimbursement." This means structuring physician payment around proof of clinical benefit, which would improve quality and reduce the cost of healthcare.
Global 21 is ready for international work in the 21st century, including charitable efforts.
A prototype chest simulator is the first control implemented to ensure consistency across multiple imaging sites.
An online march on Washington brings together molecular imaging supporters.
A powerful tool for evaluating patients with a high risk of having breast cancer.
3-D virtual colonoscopy (CT) provides an accurate, less invasive colorectal cancer screening alternative to optical colonoscopy.
Baptist Health South Florida provides continuing education opportunities to doctors on staff at all their affiliated hospitals and welcomes attendees from the local, regional and national medical communities.
MRI detected acute stroke, acute ischemic stroke, and chronic hemorrhage more frequently than CT.
BC Decker Inc, publisher of the acclaimed general surgical reference, ACS Surgery, is honored to announce the appointment of Stanley W. Ashley, MD, FACS as the new Editor-in-Chief.
Tom Kennedy, administrator for Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital, has retired after serving the Sweetwater hospital for more than 19 years. Donna Boatright, associate administrator and director of nursing, will fill the position.
Toshiba's Artida improves diagnostic confidence, productivity and accuracy while reducing cost.
Agency tells Endotec, Orlando, Florida, to stop selling total joint replacement devices.
Genesys Regional Medical Center offers you a five year resideny for Otorhinolaryngology/ Oro-Facial Plastic Surgery.
Scientists from Johns Hopkins and University of Milan inhibit lethal human brain cancers in mice by inducing positive changes in cells that behave like cancer stem cells.
Oakwood training programs emphasize the discovery, dissemination and application of new knowledge.
Last week's meeting in San Diego of ambulatory surgical center executives covered key issues broadly and deeply. Read DOTmed's ongoing exclusive reports on this important health care sector.
New cardiac and pediatric packages expand clinical applications.
Heart disease patients 65 and older who receive stents coated with medicine are more likely to survive and less likely to suffer a heart attack than people fitted with stents not coated with medication.
Leading University Hospitals in Germany and Switzerland have commenced treatments for complex cancers, including head & neck tumors, using RapidArc™ radiotherapy technology from Varian Medical Systems.
Currently, the U.S. breast cancer detection rate with mammography is 4.8 per 1,000 women; Findings reported in October issue of Radiology.
Redskins team physician Dr. James Andrews is the host as the Andrews Institute brings national attention to injuries in football.
Weisman Medical has been in business since 1980 starting out as a repair service. Over the years it evolved into a buy, sell, broker business, with contracts for biomed repair.
Findings from one of the largest-ever imaging studies of depression indicate that a structural difference in the brain appears to be linked to a higher risk for depression.
News from the Department of Justice.
Hospira expects to reduce its global workforce by approximately 10 percent.
Planning on living longer? So are the anti-aging experts from all over the globe who are planning to gather in Orlando, April 23-25 for the 17th Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine (Congress).
