The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a draft guidance describing its intent to exercise enforcement discretion with respect to the premarket notification requirements for certain in vitro diagnostic and radiology devices with well-established safety and effectiveness profiles. The...
The risk to children's health from X-ray radiation is easy to reduce without compromising diagnostic accuracy. Gerhard Alzen and Gabriele Benz-Bohm describe some ways to achieve this in the current edition of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2011; 108[24]: 407-14]). The...
Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY), a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, announced today that the company's CyberKnife® VSI™ System received the 2010 Minnie for Best New Radiology Device from AuntMinnie.com, the largest and most comprehensive community internet site for radiologists...
Siemens Healthcare has already contributed to reducing the radiation dose in diagnostic and interventional radiology with many technical innovations. Now Siemens is the first manufacturer to issue a "Guide to Low Dose". Aimed at physicians and medical technical staff, this guide describes the...
The world of healthcare is changing rapidly. Reimbursement rates continue to shrink and hospitals are requiring local radiology groups to add more services and coverage than ever before. Many hospitals are now putting contracts out for competitive bids to outside entities that provide radiology...
The Society of Interventional Radiology announced the appointment of Susan E. Sedory Holzer, M.A., CAE, a respected chief executive with more than 20 years of experience working in association, corporate and federal government sectors, as its executive director, effective Jan. 3, 2011. SIR is...
Radisphere National Radiology Group, a leading, national full-service radiology interpretations provider, has implemented software technology utilized by their on-site staff radiologists at a hospital client site. The On-Site Radiology Bridge (ORB™) links the on-site staff radiologists to...
A pay-for-performance (PFP) program implemented at one of the nation's largest general hospitals appeared to have a marked effect on expediting final radiology report turnaround times (RTAT), improving patient care, according to a study in the September issue of the American Journal of...
Approximately half of Americans living with colorectal cancer will develop liver metastases at some point during the course of their disease. Radiofrequency ablation, a minimally invasive treatment that applies heat directly in the tumor causing cancer cell death with minimal associated injury...
An important interventional radiology advancement - the use of a new cerebral protection device in combination with FDA-approved carotid stents in high-surgical-risk patients - provides a minimally invasive, safe and effective way to prevent stroke from occurring during treatment to clear...