The photoacoustic CT, or PACT, imaging technique is said to perform comparably to mammography for cancer detection, but without the discomfort of standard mammograms.
If left undiagnosed and untreated for a prolonged period, fatty liver disease can progress to more serious conditions, such as cirrhosis and liver cancer.
All over the United States, countless research projects designed to improve outcomes have lost funding or been shut down. Even screening efforts targeting patients in impoverished communities have been impacted by these policies.
Although DBT exams are proven to identify more difficult to detect cancers, especially among women with dense breasts, they also include significantly more images than standard 2D mammograms.
Devi Nair, MD, director of cardiac electrophysiology with St. Bernard's Heart and Vascular Center, discussed her experience using a new-look Medtronic pulsed field ablation (PFA) system to treat persistent AFib.
A Cleveland Clinic researcher accepted NIH funding without telling the agency about money coming in for the same project from one or more foreign backers. For this the nonprofit Cleveland Clinic Foundation will pay $7.6 million.
Up to 30% of patients have metastatic disease by the time they are initially diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, making accurate staging a critical element of treatment planning.
