Avnet Technology Solutions has launched new service offerings to assist in the storage and management of medical images for EHRs, and will allow its partners in the U.S. and Canada to offer vendor neutral archive solutions through its healthcare solutions practice--Avnet HealthPath.

Exposure to an MRI magnetic field can cause unintended cardiac stimulation and considerably alter pulse in patients implanted with pacemakers--conditions that can have potentially devastating consequences--according to research published Dec. 15 in BioMedical Engineering Online.

In patients with mucinous carcinoma, a distinctive tumor that reportedly has a very favorable prognosis, a minimally effective therapy that includes no additional treatment post-surgical removal should be reconsidered as researchers have made a link between this rare breast cancer and multiple tumors undetected by mammography or ultrasound.

Hitachi Medical Systems America has negotiated a contract with financial performance solutions group, MedAssets Supply Chain Systems, to become the groups supplier of Open MRI products.

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has awarded the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) a contract totaling $4.7 million to design and launch a two-year pilot project--an Internet-based network for patient-controlled sharing of medical images.

Compressus has received a notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for its patent application, which represents thefoundational medical message routing technologies that allow the Compressus MEDxConnect system to provide a virtualized workflow environment to healthcare providers.

Post-traumatic stress symptoms may present a neurofunctional marker of decreased activity of the hippocampus in youth with a history of interpersonal trauma, said a new study's lead author Victor Carrion, MD, child psychiatrist and associate professor of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University in Calif., and his colleagues.

Intra-amygdala abnormalities and engagement of a compensatory frontoparietal executive control network, which are cognitive theories of generalized anxiety disorders (GADs) were consistent with the findings of a study published in the December edition of Archives of General Psychiatry, which studied the functional connectivity at a subregional level in the human brain that may mark GADs.