AuntMinnie

JULY 2, 2024

Electronic cigarettes entered the market in 2007, and, as of 2021, had become the second most used tobacco product among American adults, the group noted. In 2021, the task force expanded the pool of eligible individuals by lowering the screening start age from 55 to 50 and smoking pack years from 30 to 20.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

billion in 2021 and is expected to register a. The global diagnostic imaging services market was valued at USD 40.80

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AuntMinnie

JULY 20, 2024

A team led by Srikanth Krishnan, MD, from Harbor-UCLA Medical Center found that at-risk firefighters experience ongoing plaque progression, which can lead to cardiovascular disease. Coronary heart disease makes up most cases, the researchers noted. The firefighters had an average age of 53.6; of these, 98% were men and 66% were white.

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Imaging Technology

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This interest may be attributed in part to a 2021 decision by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) to give cardiac CT angiography (CCTA) its highest recommendation as a frontline test to evaluate patients with stable and acute chest pain who have no history of coronary artery disease.¹

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REBEL EM

JULY 1, 2024

Balkan Med J 2021. Balkan Med J 2021. Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation for Acute Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Prehospital and Emergency Settings. Cureus 2021. AVAPS: 0.07 P = 0.015 PaCO2 Excretion in 1 st Hour BPAP S/T: 4.75 AVAPS: 10.20 AVAPS: 0.07 AVAPS: 10.20

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Imaging Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2023

While neuromelanin was first described in the 19 th century, researchers have elucidated its possible role as a biomarker for neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease in the last two decades. Cassidy, “it allows us to obtain potentially useful adjunctive information about many other diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, and PTSD.”

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 1, 2024

To address this knowledge gap, the authors pooled data from 281 patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma from two clinical trials conducted between 2004 and 2021. Among cases with hypoxia-negative disease before CRT, no patients experienced distant metastases. among those without it.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 23, 2024

Hartman joined Cleerly in 2021 and will drive the company's sales and strategic business plan. Founded in 2017, Cleerly supports comprehensive phenotyping of coronary artery disease, as determined from advanced noninvasive CT imaging. Cleerly's CRO, Jim Hartman, has become the company's CCO.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 7, 2024

Although use of CT colonography (CTC) for colorectal cancer screening doubled between 2019 and 2021, overall utilization may still be low, according to research published in the September edition of Clinical Imaging. Upcoming Medicare reimbursement may change that. However, use increased to 3.5% vs. > 400% of federal poverty level).

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Imaging Technology

MAY 6, 2024

Neuroscience, particularly in the study of psychiatric diseases and neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s, has been constrained by technological and biological limitations, leaving many aspects of the brain structure and functionality largely unexplored, noted GE Healthcare in a written statement about the unveiling.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 17, 2024

They also compiled mortality data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics through 2021. The investigators found that breast cancer remains the leading cause of death in women under the age of 50, with 2,251 deaths reported in 2021. per year from 2012 through 2019.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 29, 2024

For instance, if an LMM is asked to summarize a treatment paradigm for a disease to guide a ministry of health in a low-income country, it might reproduce an approach that is appropriate only in a high-income context, the organization suggested.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The group conducted a receiver operator characteristic (ROC) analysis with the final radiology reports as the reference standard to evaluate the algorithm’s diagnostic accuracy for detecting the disease and Wilcoxon rank sum tests to evaluate the effect of the algorithm’s alert system for flagging suspicious cases on radiologist reporting times.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The researchers categorized the chemotherapeutic response of study participants by either responders including complete remission and partial remission, and nonresponders including stable disease and progressive disease. In total, the group included data collected between 2018 and 2021 for 67 patients.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 5, 2024

healthcare system costs for initial cancer screenings in 2021 were $43.2 To address the knowledge gap, the group analyzed data made available in 2021 from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Researchers at the U.S. is unknown, they added.

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Imaging Technology

AUGUST 31, 2023

Alzheimer disease is a progressive, irreversible brain disorder that slowly degrades memory and cognitive function. While previous treatment methods focused on addressing Alzheimer disease symptoms, recent approvals of monoclonal antibodies have provided a path to target the underlying disease itself. In June 2021, the U.S.

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MAY 22, 2023

milla1cf Mon, 05/22/2023 - 13:16 May 22, 2023 — New research finds that the brains of otherwise healthy military personnel who are exposed to explosions show an abnormal brain accumulation of amyloid-beta protein—a protein that plays a role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 17, 2024

Cardiac PET MPI has emerged as a key tool for diagnosing and managing patients with cardiovascular diseases, especially coronary artery disease, yet overall it remains underutilized in the U.S., Strategies to increase the use of cardiac PET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in the U.S. the authors noted.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 13, 2023

El Homsi's group compared the two MRI protocols for this indication via a study that included 195 patients with primary colorectal cancer and liver metastases who were diagnosed between January 2012 and December 2021. response category 0.68 Detection of new lesions 0.49

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JULY 10, 2024

This means that women with potentially treatable disease or have unfavorable patient or tumor characteristics are typically excluded from such studies. They included data collected between 2000 and 2021 from seven institutions. The researchers noted that clinical trials for breast cancer cryoablation have strict inclusion criteria.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Moreover, the approach could help detect disease that other effective prostate cancer PET radiotracers may miss, said Heying Duan, MD, a nuclear medicine research scientist at Stanford University, during a November 26 scientific session. Patients were eligible if they were older than 18 and had rising blood levels of PSA ( ≥ 0.2

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 4, 2024

She and colleagues assessed the performance of this type of protocol in women at high risk for breast cancer via a study that included 236 shortened breast MRI exams performed between 2018 and 2021. Four readers blinded to patients' prior imaging, history, and disease outcomes reviewed the scans. Two radiologists reviewed the cases.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Postoperative Assessment 52 yo with post-traumatic degenerative joint disease of the ankle. His clinical interests include ankle arthritis, neuropathic disease, forefoot reconstruction, and deformity. (1) 2021 Feb;42(2):200214. 2021 Aug;50(8):1575-1583. Epub 2021 Jan 7. Foot Ankle Int. Epub 2020 Oct 17.

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JULY 6, 2023

Contrast-enhanced MRI plays a key role in the healthcare continuum, providing a radiation-free, non-invasive method to obtain detailed images of the body, helping to distinguish and identify potential abnormalities within organs and tissues to support physicians in answering critical medical questions in the diagnosis and monitoring of disease.2

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AuntMinnie

MAY 20, 2024

The radiotracer was developed by French biomarker firm Zionexa, which GE HealthCare acquired in May 2021. F-18 FES-PET was approved in May 2020 for detecting ER-positive lesions in patients with recurrent or metastatic breast cancer.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

milla1cf Thu, 09/21/2023 - 16:17 September 21, 2023 — Declines in cardiovascular procedure volumes observed early in the COVID-19 pandemic greatly recovered in 2021 in the U.S. Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death for both men and women,” said lead researcher Andrew J. Einstein , M.D., published to date.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

The most common etiology is posttraumatic degeneration, but primary degeneration and inflammatory diseases can also result in osteoarthritis of the midfoot joints.​ 2021 Jun;42(6):757-767. Epub 2021 Jan 27. Sci Rep 11, 16139 (2021). 2021 Jan;134:109419. Foot Ankle Int. doi: 10.1177/1071100720983227. Eur J Radiol.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

But even though the pool of patients eligible for lung cancer screening was expanded in 2021, uptake remains low. She outlined results from a 2021 study she conducted that included 251 women who all underwent mammography screening and were offered LCS. There's much more to be done to encourage women to get LCS, Sandler said.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Time-dependent diffusion MRI-based microstructural mapping helps predict breast cancer molecular subtypes and treatment response in women with the disease, researchers have reported. The research included 408 women with breast cancer who underwent a time-dependent diffusion MRI exam between February 2021 and May 2023.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 10, 2024

states that tend to have higher mortality rates of the disease, American Cancer Society (ACS) researchers have reported. of men and women eligible for lung cancer screening underwent it, despite a 2021 expansion of the pool of eligible individuals. When the U.S.

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 5, 2023

The Hepatus 6 Ultrasound combines transient elastography and diagnostic ultrasound in one device, making it ideally suited for non-invasive detection, diagnosis, and evaluation of liver disease. Mindray has continued to show its dedication and perseverance for industry-leading technology that pushes the boundaries of healthcare innovation.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

GENEVA (Reuters) - Breast cancer has overtaken lung cancer as the most common form of the disease, accounting for nearly 12% of new cases each year worldwide, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday, February 2, 2021.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 19, 2024

Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT (LDCT) has been shown to reduce mortality rates from the disease. The findings were published August 19 in Annals of Internal Medicine.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Opportunistic low-dose CT (LDCT) lung cancer screening can reduce mortality from the disease by almost 50%, research published December 12 in JAMA Network Open has found. The study that included 5,234 patients who underwent lung cancer screening at Weihai Municipal Hospital Healthcare Group, Weihai City, China, between 2016 and 2021.

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APRIL 5, 2024

The generator offers a low-cost alternative for the radiolabeling of biomolecules with Gallium-68 in PET, an imaging examination method used to detect the presence or absence of diseased tissue. PET Imaging is primarily used in the diagnosis of cancer, heart attacks or neurological diseases.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Chang 2021 ) This systematic review was used as the basis for a 9 member panel to develop consensus guidelines on CT imaging for patients with suspected renal colic in 29 scenarios. 2021 Sep;47:70-73. Epub 2021 Mar 22. ” The Journal of Urology 199.4S (2018): e683-e684. Moore CL, Carpenter CR, Heilbrun ME, et al.

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JUNE 26, 2023

The approval expands upon Bayer's focus on breast imaging, with a portfolio that also includes Gadavist (gadobutrol) injection, a gadolinium-based contrast agent approved for use with MRI ( Magnetic Resonance Imaging ) to assess the presence and extent of malignant breast disease in adult patients. RadioGraphics 2021 41:3, 829-839.

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