A bipartisan group of 43 members of the U.S. House of Representatives has inked a letter to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), objecting to planned Medicare cuts for myocardial positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. The letter argues that the proposed rate cut of 72% would hamper access to a procedure that is typically provided in physician offices – and puts the onus on the CMS to justify the rate cut.

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical practice is in its infancy, but a group of medical societies has published a paper that proposes the development of a code of ethics for artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology. The paper underscores a number of concerns, including that some developers fail to fully appreciate the potential consequences of seemingly innocent slip-ups in the development and validation of that algorithm.

Looking to help patients requiring imaging of lungs or other internal structures, researchers from the NIH and Siemens Healthineers AG, of Erlangen, Germany, have developed a high-performance, low magnetic-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system that also could prove safer for those with pacemakers or defibrillators.

PERTH, Australia – Telix Pharmaceuticals Ltd. raised AU$40 million as it prepares regulatory packages and commercial strategies in Europe, the U.S. and Australia.

A few years back my brother-in-law Sam was starting a new job and was required to get a physical as part of the hiring process. A standard X-ray revealed a spot on his lungs and further testing confirmed it was cancer. The diagnosis came about two years after he’d quit smoking, but he had been a smoker for many years and was somewhere in his early 40s. Thankfully, because it was caught and treated so early, he is still with us today and doing great. But what if he hadn't had that physical? Earlier this week the U.S. Preventive Services...

As a proud father of a two-year-old little girl, it's always stories the stories about children that grab my attention the most. Take for instance, a recent one that I wrote, discussing the risk of radiation-induced solid cancers in older children. The story comes from a study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics and possible appendicitis was cited as a leading cause of abdominal/pelvic CT usage. The first question I asked myself, one that I had never asked before... was if I should be overly concerned if my daughter needs a CT scan. The good news is, one med-tech company...

Remember when expectant parents would go around showing off their ultrasound pictures to 350 or more of their family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, and old classmates? Neither do I. Yet on any given day I can see 3-D ultrasound pictures posted by Facebook friends I only vaguely remember from school. Awe, it’s a picture of your uterus, you shouldn't have. No, really, you shouldn't have! Socially speaking, this trend is downright disturbing, especially when the mother-to-be makes it her profile picture. Now her fetus is available for the entire world to...

An acquaintance of mine who, like me, has inflammatory bowel disease, received a call recently from her local hospital informing her they had lost her MRI images. They found them, but she is concerned they will have to retake them anyway because at this point her images are no longer current enough for the doctor to make an informed treatment decision. This is a prime example of why all hospitals should use electronic health records (EHRs). At a time when health IT (HIT) companies are cropping up faster than Starbucks coffee shops, and the federal government is handing out incentive...

Ah, modern medical imaging. You can bet your car payment that I get a lot of mileage out of medical imaging as the Washington editor for Medical Device Daily. All those cuts under the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 have just littered the Washington roundup practically since the day I took this job. What's not to like? Still, imaging is not just another pretty face or another bunch of pretty pictures, as the doctors like to say. There's some real substance to modern imaging technology beyond providing the occasional nutcase at...

So far I’ve chronicled my visit to Canada by focusing on what I’ve learned so far about the country’s focused efforts on growing its medical device industry – which is, of course, the primary purpose of the Advanced Medical Devices Media Tour, organized by the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation (MEDI). But in addition...