Carestream Health is launching a PACS for small medical practices at the 2009 meeting of the Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA) in Las Vegas this week.

Time Medical has received FDA approval for its Pica 0.35T whole-body open MRI system.

MRI may aid physicians in the early diagnosis, staging and treatment of diabetes, according to research in this month's American Journal of Roentgenology.

Advanced visualization technology aided diagnostic interpretation during the U.K. MRI in Breast Screening (MARIBS) trial, which recruited 732 women--who had at least a 50 percent risk of being a breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 (BRCA1), BRCA2 or TP53 gene mutation carrier--for an annual breast MRI and two-view mammogram over a nearly seven-year period (Aug. 1997- March, 2003).

Whole-body high-field MRI is a reliable option for post-mortem examination of human fetuses and might provide a non-invasive alternative to conventional autopsy, according to a U.K. study published online Aug. 6 in Lancet.

Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski has signed into law a bill requiring medical imaging professionals who provide sonography and MRI to have state licenses.

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved the Health Industry Business Communications Councils new standard for using radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags for medical products.

Open-source programmers will be getting together on Aug. 27 for the first CONNECT Code-A-Thon at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Washington, D.C., with the goal of developing software that can eventually be used for a Nationwide Health Information Network.