Precision Medicine

Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.
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Study: MR shows child abuse linked with gray matter loss

Source: Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2011;165[12]:1069-1077Childhood abuse is associated with reductions in cerebral gray matter volume and adolescents may have gray matter changes putting them at risk for behavioral difficulties even if they do not have symptoms that meet full criteria for psychiatric disorders, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

Report: Providers optimistic about clinical decision support tools

Healthcare providers are optimistic about clinical decision support (CDS) tools, according to a new report from healthcare market researcher KLAS.

Neurology: ASL-MRI may be safer, cheaper method of diagnosing Alzheimers

There may soon be an alternative to FDG-PET in the diagnosis of Alzheimers disease (AD) as the non-invasive arterial spin labeling (ASL) MRI method has been shown to provide comparable information, according to a study appearing in Neurology.

JMS: Growing appetite for medical apps

There is growing demand for more mobile applications (apps) as smartphone use becomes more prevalent among healthcare providers, according to University of California, San Diego researchers.

RSNA: Decision support can help curb unnecessary exams

CHICAGOThe implementation of clinical decision support resulted in a marked, positive change in the utilization pattern for breast MRI, according to a study presented Nov. 30 at the Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

GE Healthcare unveils new mobile imaging technology

GE Healthcare demonstrated the newest version of its Centricity Radiology Mobile Access platform, which allows radiologists to remotely select and view patient images from Centricity PACS on their mobile Apple devices, at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

JAMA: Proposed patient-access policy requires research

Although a proposed policy that would provide patients with the right to request and receive their test results directly from laboratories could empower them and reduce physicians workloads, its unclear what the specific effects of such a policy would be, according to Hardeep Singh, MD, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, in a recently published Journal of the American Medical Association commentary.

Class action suit filed against Sutter over stolen records

A class action complaint has been filed against Sutter Health by attornies acting on behalf of an affected patient, Karen Pardieck, and "all others similarly situated." The northern California healthcare network recently had a laptop containing millions of patients personal information

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