A patient is suing Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois, claiming insufficient measures were taken during a brain CT scan, allegedly requiring her to get an abortion, according to a report published June 22 by the Cook County Record.
A patient deemed too big to fit inside an MRI machine and sent home has filed a $7 million medical negligence lawsuit against Providence Health and Services, according to an article published June 21 by the Portland Business Journal.
At the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), June 23-26 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Siemens Healthineers announces the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of four new system features for the Biograph mCT family of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) systems
Siemens Healthineers has announced the launch of its new ultrasound system, the Acuson Sequoia. The new Acuson Sequoia, a general imaging ultrasound system, was developed in response to one of the most prevalent challenges in ultrasound imaging today: the imaging of different sized patients with consistency and clarity.
An Oregon patient who was sent home after he failed to fit in an MRI machine is suing a local hospital for $7 million, citing medical negligence as the reason he was left with permanent paraplegia, the Portland Business Journal reported this week.
An MR framework enabling simultaneous multiple parametric T1 and T2 proton density mapping—MR fingerprinting—can identify lesions indicative of a severe neurological condition in patients with a common form of epilepsy—all in under 150 seconds.
Wisconsin-based Gundersen Health System announced Fran Perez-Guerra, MD, a veteran of the institution, as chief executive officer of the Gundersen Moundview Hospital and Clinics.
Transcatheter valve-in-valve replacement for degenerated mitral bioprostheses was associated with similar 30-day and one-year mortality rates as redo surgical mitral valve replacement (SMVR) in a retrospective study, despite the former being performed in older, sicker patients.
Researchers found that using a virtual reality (VR) headset was able to identify brain aneurysms with the same accuracy as matched reference standards, according to a study published in the online July issue of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery.
