June 28, 2011 — Scientists with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) have developed tools that expand the use of ultrasound during spaceflight and on Earth, especially in rural and under-served locations. They include techniques that streamline training and help remote experts guide non-physician astronauts to perform ultrasound exams. Ultrasound can be used to assess numerous conditions – fractured bones, collapsed lungs, kidney stones, organ damage and other ailments – in space and on Earth. With an NSBRI grant, they also created an atlas of "space-normal" imagery of the human body, setting the stage for astronauts to provide care without consulting a physician on Earth. This atlas was handed over to NASA earlier this year.
Three companies showed different versions of a combined positron emission tomography (PET)-magnetic resonance (MR) (PET ...
Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) President George Segall, M.D., chief of the nuclear medicine service at the VA Palo ...
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
If approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) later this summer, transcatheter valve therapy (TVT) – an innovative procedure that uses minimally invasive catheter-based technology to repair heart valve disease much like stents with coronary arteries – will bring a new therapeutic option to older patients with aortic stenosis who either could not be treated before or are too high-risk for conventional surgical therapy.
June 27, 2011 — Researchers may have discovered one reason that African-Americans are at increased risk for heart attacks and other cardiovascular events.
June 24, 2011 — American Heart Association (AHA) CEO Nancy Brown praised the new, larger tobacco packaging warning labels unveiled this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The labels include graphic images of disease caused by tobacco.
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
June 24, 2011 — AT&T announced that Baptist Health System and Henry Ford Health System have signed agreements to pilot its new cloud-based Medical Imaging and Information Management service. Doctors will be able to quickly connect to patients' medical images, regardless of which device originally took the image, allowing them to offer faster treatment. The service will help lower costs in an industry where it can take multiple and unconnected systems and devices to transmit a single image.
June 23, 2011 — A new study published in the June edition of the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery highlights that a more uniform distribution of endovascular coils may help in the treatment of cerebral aneurysms. Deltapaq endovascular microcoils from Codman & Shurtleff Inc., a global neurovascular and neuroscience company, were used in the study.
June 23, 2011 — The Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) applauds the introduction of House Resolution 295 by Reps. Kay Granger, R - Texas, Dutch Ruppersberger, D – Md., and Charles Gonzalez, D - Texas. The resolution will support efforts to raise public awareness of atrial fibrillation (AF) by enhancing the quality of care and patient safety, advancing research and education, and improving access to appropriate medical treatment for patients suffering from AF.
When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
Jun 21, 2011 – Insurance provider UnitedHealthcare has made Cambridge Heart’s Microvolt T-Wave Alternans (MTWA) testing a covered benefit for its subscribers. UnitedHealthcare is an operating division of UnitedHealth Group, the largest single health carrier in the United States with more than 32 million medical enrollments.
June 21, 2011 – Issues involving sharing medical images and possible solutions were discussed by vendors during an Applied Vendor Learning Session at the 2011 Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting, June 2-5 in Washington, D.C.
June 21, 2011 – The Heart Hospital of Austin, a physician-led hospital specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease in Austin, Texas, recently adopted the Philips iE33 xMatrix ultrasound system with live 3-D transesophageal echo (TEE). Clinicians wanted better views of heart valves to help them diagnose and treat patients. The system was chosen for use in the hospital’s open-heart valve program.
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May 16, 2011 — Patients who undergo a procedure to unblock a coronary artery are likely to survive longer if they participate in structured follow-up care, according to research in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association .
June 21, 2011 – The St. Francis Heart Center in Indianapolis, Ind., announced that it has performed the first post-U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval surgery in the United States using a new device for treating tricuspid valve disease.
June 20, 2011 — Evaluating patients with multiple sclerosis who have narrowed jugular and azygos veins — and the value of widening those veins with angioplasty — warrants careful, well-designed research, noted members of a Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation's research consensus panel. The multidisciplinary panel indicated that while specific parameters for a large-scale, pivotal multicenter trial are not now available, that type of study is the "mandatory goal" in exploring a condition called chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (or CCSVI).