Many Children With Sickle Cell Anemia Do Not Meet Quality Indicators
MONDAY, March 18, 2024 -- A number of children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) have low rates of receipt of recommended antibiotic prophylaxis and annual transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasound, according to a study published online March 6 in... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - March 18, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Why Ethereum ’s circulating supply keeps falling to new lows
None Increased demand for the Ethereum network has led to a surge in burn rate. • None This has brought about a decline in the coin’s circulating supply. Ethereum’s [ETH] circulating supply has fallen to a new post-merge low, according to data from Ultrasound.money. In the last month, 86,219 ETH…#ethereum #ultrasoundmoney #ytd #layer1 #merge #defillama #ethereums #lidofinance #artemis #dexes (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

GE Healthcare, Hartford HealthCare extend Care Alliance agreement
GE HealthCare (GEHC) and Connecticut-based Hartford HealthCare have extended their "Care Alliance" collaboration through 2030. Under the collaboration, Hartford HealthCare will upgrade its imaging technology using a phased approach for the acquisition, deployment, and redeployment of CT, PET/CT, MRI, x-ray, nuclear medicine, mammography, ultrasound, and OEC 3D surgical imaging C-arm systems, according to GEHC. Many of the new systems in the collaborative effort will include tested AI and machine-learning software, and patient monitoring, anesthesia, maternal infant care, and diagnostic cardiology technologies are also in...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Installations Source Type: news

QT Imaging to deliver Breast Acoustic CT scanner to research centers
QT Imaging Holdings is delivering its Breast Acoustic CT scanner in collaboration with research centers in the U.S. and Canada. The company is collaborating with the Department of Radiation Oncology and Radiation Treatment Program at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This collaboration is part of a five-year research grant from National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute to develop an inexpensive, portable, safe, and repeatable imaging approach that can accurately identify early response of breast cancer patients to neoadjuvant ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 14, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news

Image-to-text strategy helps ChatGPT read thyroid ultrasound images
Large language models integrated with image-to-text approaches could potentially improve diagnostic thyroid ultrasound interpretation, according to research published March 12 in Radiology. A team led by Li-Da Chen, MD, PhD, from First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou found that ChatGPT 4.0 had the highest consistency and diagnostic accuracy when compared with Google Bard and ChatGPT 3.5 when it came to interpreting ultrasound images of thyroid nodules. Also, the image-to-text large language model strategy showed comparable performance to that of human large language model interaction involving t...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 14, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Ultrasound Source Type: news

Pulsenmore is expanding the application of its home ultrasound solution for pregnant women: a clinical trial with Michigan Medicine will focus on the remote assessment of the fetal biophysical profile
RAMAT GAN, Israel, March 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pulsenmore (TASE:PULS), the world leader in self-scan ultrasound technology for at-home use and remote clinical diagnosis, announces its new clinical study collaboration with Michigan Medicine. The study will examine the ability to conduct... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - March 13, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: TRI PDT Source Type: news

Olivia Munn Shares Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Reveals She Had a Double Mastectomy
Olivia Munn has revealed that she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023 and had a double mastectomy. Munn shared the health update in an Instagram post that included a statement about receiving the diagnosis and photos from her treatment in the last year. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “In the past ten months, I have had four surgeries, so many days spent in bed I can’t even count and have learned more about cancer, cancer treatment and hormones than I ever could have imagined,” she wrote. “Surprisingly, I’ve only cried twice. I guess I haven’t felt like there was ti...
Source: TIME: Health - March 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Moises Mendez II Tags: Uncategorized culturepod Source Type: news

Coronary angiography matches IVUS in guiding PCI stent implantation
Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is on par with quantitative coronary angiography when it comes to guiding stent implantation, a study published March 13 in JAMA Cardiology found. Researchers led by Cheol Whan Lee, MD, from the University of Ulsan in Seoul, South Korea, found that both methods during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) showed similar rates of target lesion failure at 12 months. “Findings of this study suggest that a standardized quantitative coronary angiography-based PCI algorithm may be an acceptable alternative to IVUS-guided PCI, and warrants further research,” Lee and co-authors wrote. Whil...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 13, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Subspecialties Ultrasound Cardiovascular Radiology Source Type: news

Tracking breast cancer method of detection shows impact of screening
Standardized identification of the initial method of detection of breast cancer is feasible across different practice sites, according to a study published March 11 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. The study results could offer important data about the impact of screening in the U.S., wrote a team led by Sujata Ghate, MD, of Duke University in Durham, NC. "Prospective collection of method of detection data may help determine how screening mammography and supplemental screening options (ultrasound, MRI) contribute to reduction of mortality and morbidity from breast cancers," the group noted. The Ameri...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 12, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Clinical News Womens Imaging Breast Source Type: news

Using ultrasound before operational birth improves neonatal outcomes
Using ultrasound prior to operative vaginal birth leads to improved neonatal outcomes, according to research published March 11 in American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM. A team led by Sasha Skinner, MBBS, from Monash Health in Victoria, Australia, found that compared to cases where ultrasound was not used, implementing a safety protocol that included intrapartum ultrasound was tied to fewer infants being delivered in an unexpected position and a reduction in neonatal morbidity. “Our experience found that clinicians were receptive to upskilling in [ultrasound] to determine fetal head position,” the Skinner t...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 12, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Womens Imaging Source Type: news

MRgFUS shows promise in treating prostate cancer
MRI-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) therapy can successfully treat prostate cancer for those at intermediate risk, a study published March 5 in Radiology found. Researchers led by Sangeet Ghai, MD, from the University of Toronto in Canada found that MRgFUS led to no adverse effects and negative follow-up results two years after treatment. “Additionally, there was no significant decline in quality of life per the validated questionnaires,” Ghai and colleagues wrote. MRgFUS allows for clinicians and interventional radiologists to accurately target localized areas deemed to be clinically significant, including for t...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 7, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Subspecialties MRI Genitourinary Radiology Source Type: news

CEUS shines in diagnostic, interventional settings
Dynamic contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is a useful tool for interventions, according to a March 3 presentation given at ECR 2024. In his talk, Dean Huang, MD, from King’s College London in England outlined novel applications for CEUS in vascular and nonvascular imaging, as well as therapeutic and potential future applications.  “Ultrasound contrast agent use can be ubiquitous in interventional practice and can solve many logistical or clinical diagnostic problems,” he said. “And we can achieve all of this without the use of radiation and nephrotoxicity.” Dean Huang, MD, from King's College London highligh...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 6, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Ultrasound Source Type: news

SmartAlpha partners with Siemens Healthineers
SmartAlpha is partnering with Siemens Healthineers to provide AI-powered applications that improve workflow efficiencies and optimize clinical performance for better care outcomes. The companies held a signing ceremony at ECR 2024. SmartAlpha highlighted that its technology has made advances in AI-guided, real-time ultrasound scanning, with the new partnership aiming to further improve such developments. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 5, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news

IVF Helps Patients Trying to Build Families. An Alabama Court Put That in Doubt
(MedPage Today) -- Thirty-seven-year-old Corinn O'Brien is about 2 months pregnant through in vitro fertilization (IVF), but an ultrasound recently showed the fetus might be in trouble, and she wants the option to try again if she needs to. Cancer... (Source: MedPage Today Endocrinology)
Source: MedPage Today Endocrinology - March 5, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news

Green protocols can reduce radiology department energy consumption
Substituting less energy-consuming ultrasound for x-ray or CT reduced energy use by as much as 8% during diagnostic radiology processes and 31.2% during indirect radiology department activities, according to findings of a pilot study presented March 1 at ECR 2024. The green project conducted by radiographers at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan and nearby Hospital of Legnano saved an estimated 12,000 euros ($13,000), said Andrea Masperi, who presented the details. Masperi and colleagues conducted the study between January 2023 and June 2023. "Despite a few studies on this specific subject, it has emerged that ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 5, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Liz Carey Tags: Practice Management Source Type: news