The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) announced yesterday that the institution is strengthening a series of partnerships to develop technologies that aim to treat neurodegenerative disease.

The human genome was first mapped just a little over a decade ago. Its 3 billion bits of DNA are the pages of the human instruction manual. Read this great review featuring Eric S. Lander from MIT, Harvard, and the Broad Institute in Cambridge to see how far we've come and what the future of genomics holds.

The shape of cancer genomics may be a new calling card for 3D oncologic imaging. Studying the formation of cancer cell genomes could potentially provide more information about a patient's cancer than just focusing on genetic expression. Scientists at McGill University in Montreal are finding that the form of a cancer cell genome can even tell them what subtype of cancer a patient has.

PET/CT prior to hepatic resection for advanced colorectal cancer patients with liver metastases may not be as beneficial as previously thought, according to a study published today in the Journal of the American Medicine Association.

Dedicated breast PET appears to be performing up to National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) standards, according to a study looking into the performance specifics of the emerging technology published May 8 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

In an article published in the ICD10 monitor, Shannon DeConda, the founder and president of the National Alliance of Medical Auditing Specialists, compares the financial burdens brought on by EHR and ICD-10. In preparation for the ICD-10 implementation, hospital systems and larger health care facilities have large budgets planned for 2015, and many have already invested a significant outlay of money in education and training to meet the fall 2014 deadline. There also is the risk that unpracticed ICD-10 coding skills could diminish over the next 18 months. 

New research presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases suggests that ultrasound is as accurate as chest X-ray for detecting pneumonia in children. The research was conducted at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and led by Lilliam Ambroggio, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati. 

Oregon-based radioisotope technology company Northwest Medical Isotopes (NWMI) announced late last week that there are plans to construct a facility for radioisotope production at the University of Missouri-owned Discovery Ridge Research Park in Columbia, Mo.