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08.10.11
JACR: New System Curbs Patient ID Errors
A four-step process reduced patient identification errors in medical imaging and offered a useful, easy, quick and relevant process for staff members, according to a study published in the August issue of Journal of American College of Radiology.
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08.9.11
How Debt Deal Could Squeeze Medicare Pay Even More
The last-minute agreement that lawmakers and the White House reached to avoid a default on the nation’s debt also considerably raises the stakes for physicians pushing for congressional action on Medicare payment before the end of the year.
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08.5.11
Research Points to Alzheimer’s Early Toll
An explosion of new research bolsters an emerging view that a “silent phase” of Alzheimer’s disease begins ravaging the brain years or even decades before patients have enough symptoms to be diagnosed.
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08.3.11
JACR Articles Address Dose Reductions in CT
Radiation dose from CT can be reduced significantly, according to a pair of articles in the current issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
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08.3.11
After the mammogram storm, what should women do?
The American Cancer Society, the American College of Radiology and Society of Breast Imaging as well as Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which is the world’s largest breast cancer organization, condemned the task force’s recommendation and have been united in their message that women can decrease their chances of dying from the disease by beginning annual mammograms at 40.
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08.1.11
Brain Injury May Boost Stroke Risk
Early neuroimaging examinations, such as MRI, and intensive monitoring should be standard in the first few months and years after a traumatic brain injury.
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07.27.11
Report could sway FDA device review process
The Institute of Medicine is poised to advise the U.S. drug regulator how it can refine its medical device approval process to get products to market quickly while protecting patients.
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07.26.11
New Advice on Mammogram Timing
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists updated its recommendations last week, saying that women at average risk for breast cancer should be offered a mammogram every year, starting at age 40.
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07.22.11
Senators to President: Stop Medicare imaging cuts
A group of seven U.S. senators has urged President Barack Obama to reject calls for deeper Medicare cuts for medical imaging services. In a letter sent to the president on July 20, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), Sen. Herbert Kohl (D-WI), Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), and four other colleagues expressed concern over cuts that “are stifling … medical innovation and leaving seniors and disabled Americans without access to the care they need to diagnose and treat life-threatening diseases such as heart disease and cancer.”
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07.22.11
Senators Urge Obama to Block Imaging Cuts
A bipartisan group of senators, including John Kerry (D-Mass.), Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), has asked President Obama to reject any further Medicare cuts to medical imaging, saying they’re bad for patients and American workers.
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