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PET visualizes acute graft versus host disease

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The finding is from a clinical trial in patients with blood cancers and suggests the method can locate specific areas of the disease that are difficult to biopsy, noted lead authors Jennifer Holter-Chakrabarty, MD, and Lacey McNally, PhD, of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City.

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Women in healthcare experience higher burnout rates than male peers

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Women in healthcare occupations -- from physicians to nurses, clinical social workers, and mental health providers -- experience more stress and burnout compared to their male peers, researchers have found. Frame and colleagues' results were published February 22 in Global Advances in Integrative Medicine and Health.

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Image perception: Are radiologists akin to MLB batters?

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Robert Alexander, MD, of SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, recently discussed with AuntMinnie.com what it means to be an expert reader in radiology, with the concept under investigation. Nine labs from around the U.S.

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How can Enterprise Imaging empower radiology in the modern health network?

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With strong demand for medical imaging in many differing clinical contexts, hospitals are managing growing routine imaging demands while balancing teaching practices, ambulatory services, primary care, and subspecialty services. Another, a new hospital complex is underway at University of Utah Health. billion healthcare facility.

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IBA and PARTICLE Initiate FLASH Proton Therapy Research Partnership

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As part of the collaboration, IBA will enable the FLASH configuration in the clinical proton therapy system of PARTICLE to facilitate preclinical research on FLASH therapy. In the future, this could lead to new clinical functionality for patients. milla1cf Fri, 06/16/2023 - 20:13 June 16, 2023 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.,

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Minnies winners for 2023 highlight AI, innovation in radiology

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The technology figured prominently in five Minnies categories, including Hottest Clinical Procedure. Pickhardt believes using additional clinical data on CT imaging could save healthcare costs, especially when AI tools are used in parallel, suggesting it is a cost-effective or even cost-saving strategy for personalized or precision medicine.

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Ultrasound shows ties between uterine fibroid risk, family history

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Researchers led by Christine Langton, PhD, from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, NC, found that this trend was especially prevalent when mothers were diagnosed at a younger age. The women had no prior clinical diagnosis of fibroids at enrollment were available for analysis.