The mortality rate from breast cancer is down significantly among black women in Chicago, and area experts are attributing a lot of that success to the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force.

NASHUA, N.H.and ATHENS, Greece,—iCAD, Inc.(NASDAQ: ICAD),a global medical technology leader providing innovative cancer detection and therapy solutions,today announced outstanding clinical results of its new, leading-edge digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) cancer detection software. The study demonstrated significant positive results for clinical performance and workflow efficiency.

Heather Frimmer, MD, a Connecticut-based breast and emergency room radiologist sought to “do something a little more creative” and forayed into writing a novel that highlights an important topic she manages at her day job—cancer diagnosis.

GE Healthcare has officially launched the Invenia Automated Breast Ultrasound (ABUS) 2.0 in the United States after installing the equipment in other parts of the world since 2014.

As the country's strong partisan divides become more apparent with an approaching midterm election, struggles related to the cost and accessibility of healthcare services are one top issue that both Republicans and Democrats currently agree on.

Beverly G. Coleman, MD, a radiologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), is the 2018 recipient of the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU) Distinguished Service Award.

Unenhanced CT should be the first imaging examination performed when patients present with new-onset seizure, according to a new analysis published in the American Journal of Roentgenology. It can help specialists exclude conditions that would require urgent or emergent intervention.

GE Healthcare and the Society of Radiography in Kenya (SORK) pledged to train a minimum of 140 technologists as part of a partnership focused on improving overall efficiency. The partnership will “build on efforts to achieve universal healthcare through capacity building.”