Carestream Molecular Imaging is sponsoring a complimentary seminar on Imaging Technologies & Strategies in Pre-Clinical Small Animal Research on Dec. 6, in Cambridge, Mass.

Philips Healthcare saw its sales improve by 8 percent on a comparable quarter-over-quarter basis, driven by high single-digit growth in all its businesses.

Policy proposals to adopt prior authorization for advanced medical imaging as a means of controlling utilization would not provide meaningful cost savings, according to a literature review by The Moran Company. The report, released by the Access to Medical Imaging Coalition, evaluated the cost savings of various proposed imaging policies and found that the Congressional Budget Office is unlikely to score significant savings for these strategies.

Before becoming a medical journalist, I was an amateur guitar technician; emphasis on the word "amateur."

A study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging found that intensive treatment with cholesterol-lowering drugs significantly reduced the amount of cholesterol in artery-clogging plaque, while also showing that MRI scanning could become a powerful new tool for assessing how well the drugs are working.

In designing a new imaging facility, Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging (CAMI), Thomas J. Meade, PhD, professor of cancer research, chemistry, molecular biosciences, neurobiology & physiology and radiology at Chicago's Northwestern University, aimed to create a place for researchers and the public to view research being done at the university, through advanced visualization technologies.

Mark McKinney has been named Healthcare Information Xchange of New Yorks CEO, effective Oct. 17.

Mirada Medical is unveiling its Universal PET/MR at the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) annual meeting being held in Birmingham, England, Oct. 16 to 18.