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MedCAC panel members question VC's effectivenessNovember 20, 2008, 12:46 pm by Radiology Headlines from Aunt MinnieVirtual colonoscopy may have been dealt a setback this week after members of a U.S. government panel expressed doubts about the technology. Panel members charged with recommending whether VC should receive Medicare reimbursement said there was incomplete evidence of VC's cost-effectiveness and overall benefit as a screening tool for colorectal cancer.
More from Radiology Headlines from Aunt Minnie Pegasus buys AccuSoft's imaging portfolio Radiology Headlines from Aunt Minnie: January 5, 2009, 12:32 pm Image compression firm Pegasus Imaging has purchased the imaging business of software development firm AccuSoft. SPECT/CT outdoes planar imaging with lymph nodes Radiology Headlines from Aunt Minnie: January 5, 2009, 2:00 am A newly released study in this month's issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine has found that SPECT/CT is better than planar imaging in accurately determining lymph node involvement at radioablation performed Framingham risk doesn't predict plaque burden Radiology Headlines from Aunt Minnie: January 5, 2009, 2:00 am Risk factor schemes such as the Framingham risk assessment work fine for patient populations, but they do a poor job of predicting the atherosclerotic plaque burden of individuals, according to a new Digisonics adds to installed base Radiology Headlines from Aunt Minnie: January 5, 2009, 2:00 am Ultrasound image management firm Digisonics announced it has completed several recent installations. Large breast cancers persist despite mammography screening Radiology Headlines from Aunt Minnie: January 2, 2009, 12:05 pm NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jan 2 - In Australia, women still present with large breast cancers despite the introduction of mammographic screening there in 1991, according to a report in the December
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