Womens Imaging: Page 88

Volpara highlights study linking screening, breast density
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Breast imaging software developer Volpara Solutions is highlighting a study from the Netherlands showing a strong linear relationship between decreased screening performance and volumetric breast density.
January 29, 2017
Breast screening debate spreads to Middle East
By Inga Stevens
DUBAI - As the doors spring open for the first day of the Arab Health 2017 show, breast cancer screening is set to come under close scrutiny at the Total Radiology conference that forms a major part of the event. Dr. Shaikha Abu Shaikha speaks about Qatar's Breast and Bowel Screening Program.
January 29, 2017
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PET/MRI adds to recurrent breast cancer diagnoses
By Wayne Forrest
PET/MRI's efficacy in women's imaging applications continues to broaden. Dr. Johannes Grueneisen and his colleagues from Essen, Germany, have found the hybrid modality achieves "superior restaging" with breast cancer patients compared with MRI alone.
January 25, 2017
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Imaging offers hope to women with fertility problems
By Rebekah Moan
Millions of women each year have difficulty conceiving children, a condition known as subfertility. But radiology is playing a growing role in both detecting the condition and helping to solve problems with noninvasive therapies, according to research from a leading facility in London.
January 25, 2017
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Stereotactic breast biopsies: Room for improvement?
By Dr. Rüdiger Schulz-Wendtland
When it comes to the business side of radiology, there is considerable scope for improvement, according to Dr. Rüdiger Schulz-Wendtland. Using breast biopsies as an example, he explains how delays and inefficiencies can have a substantial effect on a hospital's bottom line.
January 23, 2017
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Lack of ultrasound access in Irish Republic puts babies at risk
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Babies are at increased risk of mortality because pregnant mothers do not have adequate access to ultrasound scans, according to a report published on 19 January in the Irish Times.
January 18, 2017
Virtual reality enables parents to meet baby before birth
By Frances Rylands-Monk
A Finnish company has developed a virtual reality product to enable parents to meet their unborn child using 3D and 4D ultrasound. The developer thinks it could represent the future of fetal ultrasound and is speaking with a hospital and an ultrasound vendor to see what applications can be found.
January 17, 2017
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Irish advocate caution on breast screening for under 40s
By Rebekah Moan
Screening for breast cancer is not recommended for women younger than 40 who have normal, benign, or undocumented examination findings, but women with a moderate or high familial risk of breast cancer, personal breast cancer history, or those referred for screening are another story, Irish researchers have found.
January 17, 2017
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Improving the patient experience benefits everyone
By Dr. Jennifer Adams
As a diagnostic radiologist, Dr. Jennifer Adams has always been sensitive to the concerns and fears that patients can have when faced with medical imaging procedures. But she gained a new perspective on what it's like to be a patient when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 38.
January 9, 2017
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Cochrane group again takes aim at breast screening
By Kate Madden Yee
Continuing a campaign going back to at least 2000, researchers from the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen take aim at screening mammography in a January 10 article in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The group claims that breast screening doesn't reduce the incidence of advanced tumors, and that one-third of tumors detected actually represent overdiagnosis.
January 9, 2017
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5 tips on how to read gynecologic images
By Rebekah Moan
A sound knowledge of clinical details, including tumor markers, is vital when interpreting gynecologic images, because this information enables the radiologist to make an accurate diagnosis, according to award-winning researchers from a top London teaching hospital.
January 5, 2017
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Top 10 AuntMinnieEurope stories for 2016
By Philip Ward
We're pleased to offer the top 10 stories of 2016 on AuntMinnieEurope.com. Based on our list, the single most important issue facing European radiologists was the ongoing debate over the safety of gadolinium-based contrast agents for MRI.
December 27, 2016
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