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01.22.10
Radiation dose less with digital mammograms
Newer digital mammograms may deliver significantly lower radiation doses than conventional film mammograms, especially for women with larger and denser breasts, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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01.20.10
Virtual Colonoscopy is Most-effective for Screening Colon Cancer
A new study says targeting smaller lesions does little to significantly reduce the incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) and, in fact, results in extremely high financial costs and a large proportion of adverse events. A cost-benefit analysis study says the low malignancy rate among so-called diminutive polyps gives virtual colonoscopy with removal of lesions 6 mm or greater the best estimated value per life year gained and with fewer complications.
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01.8.10
Radiologists: Get Mammograms Early, Often
Blasting new breast cancer screening advice from a Health and Human Services Department panel, radiologists say women need annual mammograms starting no later than age 40…
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01.8.10
What Reimbursement Cuts Mean
The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) slashed reimbursement for diagnostic imaging centers by placing a cap on technical-component payments from Medicare for non-hospital imaging services beginning in January 2007. With the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) now in effect, radiology specialties and rural practitioners may encounter a challenge…
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01.8.10
Family Health Today (Dec. 22, 2009) Breast Cancer Guidelines
Breast cancer survivor and imaging advocate Robin Hall Guadagnini participated in a panel discussion on the new breast cancer screening guidelines put forth by the USPSTF.
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01.6.10
MRI helps find hidden breast cancer, even after US and mammo
MRI helps find hidden cancers even after ultrasound and mammography exams have been performed, according to a study presented at the RSNA meeting last month. What’s more, MRI might be useful beyond the high-risk patients for whom it’s currently recommended.
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12.10.09
Health hazard? Proposed cutbacks in MRI scans stir up opposition
Ocean County patients, physicians, advocacy groups and community leaders said that steep Medicare cuts proposed by Congress, as well as the Obama Administration, threaten patient access to diagnostic imaging services — in particular for our nation’s seniors.
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11.16.09
Research gains at risk
As the world accelerates technology solutions for everything from education to commerce to environmental health to economic growth, our president is focused on government centralization and traveling back in time to “reform” American health care…
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11.16.09
Some specialists will see extra cuts in Medicare pay
Some specialty groups are loudly protesting new Medicare payment policies that will boost some primary care rates starting next year at the expense of rates for certain specialty services…
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11.2.09
Researchers Develop Innovative Imaging System to Study Sudden Cardiac Arrest
A research team at Vanderbilt University has developed an innovative optical system to simultaneously image electrical activity and metabolic properties in the same region of a heart, to study the complex mechanisms that lead to sudden cardiac arrest…
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