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In 2006, the average radiation dose from diagnostic medical imaging in the United States was estimated to be approximately 3 mSv per year, an...
The scope of this review will cover the last 12–18 months of important literature concerning endoscopic ultrasound (EUS). The spectrum of articles...
Pituitary incidentalomas are defined as asymptomatic lesions of the pituitary gland found on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography...
The ongoing development of multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) technology now allows radiologists to scan the entire thorax with high...
A round-up of health news for the week ending 27 August 2010.
New data confirm that a wide variation in blood pressure over time may be just as important a risk factor as an elevated blood pressure, and suggest...
The tissue composition of the breast is reflected mammographically by the pattern of distribution of fibroglandular and fatty
tissue....
(Dr. Jaron Rabinovici, the first author of the present study, is a very thoughtful, intelligent physician-scientist and a very productive former...
Despite the increasing use of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in the management of patients with
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A unicornuate uterus is a rare congenital malformation of the female genital tract, which appears in about 1/1000 women and is characterized by...
Dose calculations for radioembolization using Yttrium-90 (90Y) microspheres, i. e., Theraspheres (MDS Nordion, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) and...
Bone scintigraphy with 99mTc-labelled bisphosphonates is widely used to stage patients with prostate cancer considered at high risk of metastases,...
Screening with mammography has been shown to reduce mortality from breast cancer [1, 2]. However, the sensitivity to non-palpable cancer of screening...
First trimester ultrasound is widely used for early pregnancy localization and assessment of viability. The crown-rump length (CRL) measurement is...
Power Doppler displays ultrasound scatterer amplitude, with particular sensitivity for low velocity in smaller blood vessels[1][2]. It developed from...
Quantification of liver iron concentration (LIC) with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive technique that was
developed...
Although several studies have examined contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) following computed tomography (CT) procedures under closely controlled...
Radioiodine Remnant Ablation (RRA) is well established in the management of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer post-thyroidectomy.1–3...
In this context, positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed topography (SPECT) are important tools
already...
Establishing pregnancy location is key to minimising the risks of abortion, and establishing gestational age optimises women's choice of procedure...
Purpose To retrospectively evaluate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of breast cancer after high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)...
Abdominal pain is one of the most common presenting symptoms among patients in the emergency department (ED). The diagnostic
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After radical external beam radiation therapy (EBRT), local recurrence may benefit from definitive local therapy. The of this study was to evaluate...
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is a powerful diagnostic modality used to assess cardiac anatomy and function.1 Intraoperative TEE has become...
Historically, the echocardiographic assessment of diseases affecting the right ventricle (RV) has lagged behind that of the left ventricle, despite...
Over the past few decades, the important role of right ventricular (RV) performance in the clinical status and long-term outcome of patients with...
Despite many advances in the prevention, detection, and treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD), it remains a leading cause
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The commercial of single-slice helical scanners in 1997 initiated the current age of cardiac computed tomographic angiography (CTA). Before that...
The advent of multidetector computed tomography (CT) has revolutionized cardiovascular imaging. Faster scanning times, increased anatomic coverage,...
The spleen is after the liver as the second most frequently injured organ following abdominal trauma, occurring in 32% of
abdominal...
In acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), reperfusion has contributed to an important decrease in mortality by
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Multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) angiography is a noninvasive method that enables accurate diagnosis of coronary
artery...
Radiotherapy for glottic T1 carcinoma shows excellent clinical outcome. Several authors have reported an 80–90% local control rate (LC) with standard...
More than half of the patients undergoing resection of colorectal cancer (CRC) have recurrence of this disease. CRC tend to
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The increasing clinical use of cardiac computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) over the last decade has created a new...
Improvements in cancer screening and treatment have in turn increased long-term survivorship and attention to survivors’ daily
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Purpose Fluorine-18 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) has been approved for imaging in...
An estimated 104 400 incident cases of bladder cancer (BCa) were diagnosed in Europe in 2006, of which 82 800 were found in men and 21 600 in women....
New findings suggest there is a place for telemedicine in helping to achieve optimal care for women with the condition.
A review of the latest findings on the early detection of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) involvement in children with arthritis.
How video-based multidisciplinary consultations are benefiting children with complex posture and movement problems, preventing delays in care and...
New study findings confirm that remote monitoring of heart failure patients at home can be an effective healthcare strategy
A review of some of the recent evidence on how telemedicine can help improve treatment and recovery in heart attack patients
A review of what we know, and what we still need to find out, about remote monitoring of heart failure patients
How innovation in the development of toughened paints led to advances in dental healthcare
A review of recent developments in telestroke, and the implications for clinical practice
The concept of innovation in healthcare is most often used to refer to advances in medical science or technology. But it can equally apply to the...
The most recent Financial Times health supplement focuses on the health reform with article topics ranging from the effect of recession, US reform,...
Andrew Lansley discusses patient choice and responsibility, access to information and the latest treatments, and why basic care should remain free.
Health in the news including Cancer and the Holocaust, digital plasters, healthcare and global warming, and gene therapy for eyes.
While US politicians argue about how to make healthcare more accessible and affordable, many Americans have found their own solution – going abroad...
Two United States institutions wield enormous power over healthcare in the US and around the world. The US Food and Drug Administration has the...
The volunteers offering free medical services to poor rural communities in the US.
How the recession could impact the future of healthcare systems around the world.
The US health system leads the world in cutting edge treatment but its fragmented delivery system excludes millions.
Healthy Horizons recently went on location to the fifth annual TEDMED Conference in San Diego. The conference focused on intersections between...
That the world’s population is ageing rapidly is old news. Driven by falling fertility rates and a sustained increase in longevity, many...
The fight against cancer doesn’t just take place in a patient’s body. The mind also plays its part. After being diagnosed with the disease, many...
Over the next five years, the US government will inject $19.2 billion into healthcare IT, with the goal of providing electronic medical records for...
Healthcare is a growing global challenge. Demand is increasing due to ageing, obesity and the rise of chronic disease. What does this mean for the...
Healthy Horizons recently went on location to the fifth annual TEDMED Conference in San Diego. The conference focused on intersections between...
Paul Jacobs of Qualcomm speaks exclusively to Alex de Jong about advances in personalised medicine and the various ways in which wireless technology...
Alex de Jong speaks with Richard Wurman and Marc Hodosh, co-founders of TEDMED. The pair speak at length about the vision behind this unique...
As advances in medicine and improvements in healthcare offer more people the chance to live longer, the resulting aging population presents us with...
Outside the sumo ring, obesity is not the most pressing problem in generally snake-hipped Japan. It is thus symbolic of Japan's pharmaceutical...
In a world where large pharmaceutical companies worry about their empty pipelines, and small biotechnology groups survive only if new products pass...
Scientists are coming closer to understanding the mechanism of memory and with it the nature of learning and human consciousness that could result in...
Simultaneous vaccination against seasonal and pandemic flu provides protection against the virus without provoking significant side effects,...
Novartis yesterday revealed plans to invest $1 billion to expand its Shanghai laboratories and make China the third pillar of its global research and...
If you want a global picture of the healthcare challenges that lie ahead, you can’t get a view that is better informed than that of the World Health...
A new Economist Intelligence Unit report provides insights into the implications for healthcare systems of a rapidly ageing global population.
A webcast featuring experts from the Clinton Global Initiative
Navi Radjou, the Executive Director of the Centre for India & Global Business at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge,...
Many are counting on the adoption of electronic health records to help the healthcare system save billions of dollars. But to realize IT's promise,...
NHS hospitals should not be allowed to bar their consultants from working for private providers of NHS care in their own time, the NHS’s advisory...
Tim Harford has an extraordinary talent for doing ‘popular economics’—for uncovering the inherent links between economics, company performance, and...
The genetic disease thalassaemia is relatively unheard of in the western world but is believed to affect hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions –...
Stefan Stern writes a weekly column on management for the Financial Time's Business Life section. He has been writing about business, finance and...
We have been warned for a long time now that America’s long-term healthcare costs are unaffordable, unsustainable and a threat to our economic...
Clive Cook has been the FT's Washington columnist since April 2007. He moved from Britain to the US in 2005 to write for the Atlantic Monthly and the...
Since the beginning of the global financial crisis, thousands of Americans have lost their jobs — and access to their health insurance.
Reducing maternal mortality rates is not just a problem for the developing world
Our carbon footprints are calculations of the greenhouse gases we’re individually responsible for. Reduce yours, and you can take some satisfaction...
The cacophony of the healthcare debate, already loud, is likely to become deafening as the year progresses.
Geoff Colvin is a leading thinker, writer, broadcaster, and speaker on today's most significant trends in business. As a longtime editor and...
Yale Professor, Jacob Hacker, reflects on the academic proposal he made a decade ago - and the political fixation it's become.
Rep. John Dingell, who's been pushing healthcare reform for over 50 years, says that Democrats will do it alone if they have to.
When you've been strong and fit your whole life, it can be easy to discount your body's first whispers of sickness as merely the side effects of...
In recent weeks, opponents of Barack Obama's healthcare reform plans have criticized Britain's National Health Service (NHS) in an effort to counter...
High infant mortality, low life expectancy, soaring healthcare costs — the symptoms are numerous and the diagnosis unmistakable: America's healthcare...
To get a sense of just how dysfunctional American healthcare is, members of Congress don't need to look further than their local emergency department...
Take our poll to see how your views on health reform compare with others around the world.
A new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit highlights the dilemmas faced by policymakers seeking to implement healthcare reform.
Expectant parents, spare a thought for Mrs. Jacob Nufer, who in 1500 found herself in agonizing labor. More than a dozen midwives of the Swiss town...
It is a simple but profound fact—gender plays a significant role in our overall health. Men and women not only have unique biological processes, but...
Far-sighted employers are increasingly addressing the distinctive needs of women employees and, as a result, reaping the gains of liberating 50 per...
The battle of the sexes has long been played out in the home and in the workplace, but when it comes to health and biological makeup, are men and...
The American Medical Association once resisted the idea of healthcare reform. Now it sees it as vital.
Oprah called them “amazing” and “stunning.” US TV journalist Diane Sawyer called them “incredible.” What could elicit such awe-struck remarks by two...
The American Medical Association has been won over by the US president’s healthcare reform plans
It would be entirely fitting for Congress to rekindle the “war on cancer” in response to the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), but another...
Many people with long-term conditions want to live as independently as possible in their own home but need special equipment to help them manage...
If someone has a long-term condition like arthritis, diabetes or Parkinson’s disease, there is a good chance that they are housebound, don’t see as...
One of the most far-reaching government health initiatives over the past year is also one of the least-publicised. It is the pledge to support and...
In addition to being the editor of GetInsideHealth, Kip Piper, MA, FACHE, is a leading authority on health care policy and finance. With 27 years'...
It's a nice idea, but how practical is preventive medicine?
Home Health has become an umbrella term for the home as a center for health and well-being. Take a look at how telehealth is contributing to this...
Not so long ago, a patient’s first line of inquiry for a medical concern was a call to the family doctor. Increasingly, the first source a patient...
The number is between 50 and 75 percent. That is the percentage of people in the U. S. and U. K. on medication who are non-compliant. This means they...
Health professionals face a long battle against superbugs
Dr Anupam Sibal, Group Medical Director of Apollo Hospitals Group, India's largest private healthcare provider, says greater cooperation is needed...
Sir Liam Donaldson is leading the charge for preventive care strategies
Effective innovation in healthcare is difficult, but not impossible
(WASHINGTON) — Schoolchildren could be first in line for swine flu vaccine this fall — and schools are being put on notice that they might even be...
Direct-to-consumer genetic testing could open the door to better targeted treatments, but concerns are growing about its quality.
It’s strange to think that not long ago, the ability of ordinary people to access a blog like this from a PC, laptop or cell phone was the stuff of...
What can other countries learn from South Korea's plan to implement universal healthcare?
Treasury secretary says the road to fixing the economy runs through health care reform.
As more cash-strapped Americans resort to paying medical bills on credit cards, experts say it's a risky trend for consumers but a huge untapped...
One hospital hopes to save money (and lives) by going digital.
Open innovation is the way to deliver technological advances in the modern world.
For decades most companies saw innovation as a closed activity, conducted inside their R&D centers in a series of closely managed steps.
The guru of disruptive innovation, Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, shares his ideas on how innovation can reform healthcare in an article this...
Baby boomers want to live independently for as long as possible, a report from the International Longevity Center-USA reports.
The European Commission is betting on electronic healthcare as a major market in coming years, according to a report in European Voice.
The UK’s National Health Service will innovate its way out of the recession, a senior member of the Department of Health told delegates to the...
The healthcare systems in Europe must fundamentally change focus from cure to prevention, if they are to cope with societies’ changing demographics,...
Jonathan Mann is an anchor and correspondent for CNN International. Based in the network's Atlanta headquarters, Mann is a 20-year veteran journalist...
Tourist Jack Golden remembers a recent trip to China for all the wrong reasons. Golden, of Lenox, Mass., had a prostate condition that required...
Breast cancer is a global crisis. Once regarded as a disease of the wealthy West, it is now the most common form of cancer for women across the...
CNBC’s Healthy Horizons goes behind the scenes at the inaugural Hospital Build Middle East in Dubai, UAE. From the regions growing healthcare market,...
Healthcare-associated infections are a major public health threat, which costs the US between $28.4bn and $33.8bn per year, according to the Centers...
Telemedicine has come of age in rural America, where it is being used to provide specialist intensive care that would otherwise be costly and...
Organisational and structural barriers are blocking healthcare reform. A new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit shows how they can be...
Cutting-edge electronics are gradually proving that human body parts can be replaced by alternatives that are just as good as the real thing—and...
It's no secret that healthcare delivery is convoluted, expensive, and often deeply dissatisfying to consumers.
Baby boomers are an innovative, optimistic generation that has focused on its health and well-being that has reaped the advantage of wave upon wave...
At the height of the post-war baby boom we were filled with optimism about the solutions technological innovation and science would bring us. Many of...
Despite major advances in medical technology, which regularly deliver revolutionary new devices, healthcare’s back office often seems firmly wedded...
Hospitals were designed to make sick people well. But in most developed countries, a significant—and growing—number of people who go to hospital die...
Patient focus might be the new mantra of governments around the world as they struggle to address the issues of rising healthcare costs, and the...
Eric Silfen MD, chief medical officer, Philips Healthcare, argues that successful healthcare reform is achievable.
Advances in science and medicine have helped mankind conquer many of the pathogens that once wiped out communities.
Smallpox, measles, and typhoid...
Whether a TomTom, Magellan or Garmin – GPS has changed the way we drive, making us more efficient, more in control and more successful in how we get...
Welcome to the latest issue of GetInsideHealth. In the first of a two-part series, we're taking a closer look at what's happening at the forefront of...
Treating the sickest part of America’s economy
Could remote monitoring help Scotland deal with one of its biggest public health challenges?
Alex de Jong speaks with Sean Hogan to find out more about IBM's ambitions in the healthcare arena
Alex de Jong talks to the EU Commission's Erdem Erginel about priorities in public health
E-health can improve the quality of services, ease access to treatment and encourage innovation.
The average manager gets 19% less than the recommended eight hours sleep a night, the results of an international survey sponsored by Philips show.
Telemedicine has the potential to offer access to specialist diagnostic services in remote places. But that potential will not be fulfilled any time...
Europe’s progress towards paperless hospitals could be a case study for the US.
Tough economic times won't help Russia to fund long-awaited healthcare reforms
Vital Signs takes a closer look at some of the anti-aging products in on the market and if they are really as effective as they claim.
The complex field of health-care information may soon be a little more streamlined. On Tuesday, Chicago-based electronic medical records provider...
Washington played host to the sixth annual World Health Care Congress where top executives and academics examined the key issues in health care....
Can using an electronic personal health record (PHR) keep you healthier? That's the question a new study will examine. The U. S. Agency for...
National Health Service staff are no longer being asked whether they would be happy to be treated in their own hospitals.
The image of doctors studying X-ray films clipped to a wall-hung light box is an enduring one thanks to television hospital dramas. However, it is...
As more people receive healthcare services in a range of places the questions arise: how will all these various health professionals access our...
Breast cancer screening in the Netherlands will be totally digital by the end of this year, improving detection rates and potentially saving the...
Technology will transform hospitals, enabling healthcare systems to meet rising demand, with fewer staff while providing patients with care tailored...
The role hospitals play in our communities is not simple; neither do we all have the same concept of what that role is.
A promising new type of healthcare organization is following a path that, less than a decade ago, doomed an equally promising type of...
How can healthcare professionals ensure that the quality of their service matches their knowledge and aspirations? As a number of hospitals and...
Travelling abroad for medical treatment is expected to grow in popularity in coming years
For good or ill, health information services are proliferating on the internet
Technological change, ageing populations and rising expectations. These are the three furies that confront health systems across the world. They...
Dementia is becoming more prevalent as people live longer. Prevention is better than a cure, but how much can individuals do to delay dementia?
As Maureen describes how the severe pain in her joints makes it hard to do housework, Amanda Cooper listens sympathetically at the other end of the...
China’s planned Rmb850bn ($124bn) revamp of its ailing healthcare system will generate software spending worth at least $1.5bn, according to IBM’s...
The Frederiksberg University Hospital in Copenhagen looks like any other hospital in the developed world, except for one notable absence: there are...
Dr Andreas Ullrich, medical officer for cancer control at the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva, discusses a major shift in the...
Consumers of healthcare constitute a market that is as diverse as a market can be, yet the idea that companies might profit by segmenting customers...
If any business could benefit from innovation it's U. S. healthcare - with its notriously expensive, inefficient and consumer-unfriendly services.
Using light to treat a range of conditions is a well established therapeutic option.
Prescription pads, clipboards and patient charts are so 20th century. In the era of CT scans, gene-splicing and stem-cell breakthroughs, handwritten...
According to a press release that landed on my desk recently, wrinkles have now been awarded the disturbing new classification of “worry lines”. This...
The premium gap between company medical insurance and individual cover is widening, with thousands of employees now enjoying chunky rate reductions...
Healthcare in the European Union is riddled with political and economic challenges, but the law is shifting to give individual patients the treatment...
In this webcast, experts discuss ways in which strained European and US healthcare systems can relieve some pressure.
How far can interactive digital medicine go?
Seven private sector consortiums are to be given a form of quasi-monopoly on a potential £2bn-£3bn market for building health centres, community...
President Obama hopes that cost-effective, universal healthcare will be his legacy. But can he afford it?
Larry Kocot, from the Brookings Institution, says that electronic patient records will improve quality of care in the US healthcare system. Others...
Health economist Professor Alan Maynard explains how healthcare standards could be improved by giving doctors less freedom… and re-instating the 1845...
Committee supports proposal but Socialists withhold their support.
Inequality and under-investment in healthcare are still problems for many countries in the south-east of Europe.
Phil Hammond may be a comic and an author but he also has some serious issues in his sights.
Few people relish the idea of a stay in hospital. For most of us, our health goals are to stay well, avoid hospital, and if we do have to spend time...
Medical costs are skyrocketing because western populations are aging, chronic illness is growing, and medical science pushes the boundaries of what...
News that more and more Americans are getting less and less sleep comes as no surprise to Dr David White, chief medical officer at Philips...
Even though you’ve always known you do the work of ten men, you’ve started to wonder, despite your exemplary lifestyle, why you’re so exhausted all...
In the UK, adult children will provide elderly parents with the equivalent of £39 billion in unpaid care this year. Many of these adults will also...
As we feel the impact of the world’s demographic changes, home monitoring will play an increasingly important role in maintaining independence and...
People are spending less and less time in hospital. Heart attack victims now spend half as much time in hospital as they did in the Eighties,...
Indian healthcare professionals believe that their country’s healthcare system is more efficient and effective than it was two years ago, with better...
Getting out of bed on a January morning can be tough. It’s cold outside, it’s warm under the duvet and you’re tired after another late night. The...
If you've ever embarked upon a exercise regime, you'll know that the benefits go much further than just physical fitness.
Alex de Jong investigates technologies that are available to consumers which can monitor and maintain our health.
Alex de Jong investigates the challenge facing European health care as the economy slows and people live longer.
Healthcare in the United States is a crushing cost to the economy. The reform of this is one that the nation can no longer afford to put on hold....
Fixing Healthcare is an Economist Intelligence Unit report commissioned by Philips, the first in a series of four to be published in 2009.
Denmark is taking a new approach to tackling increasingly prevalent chronic diseases.
"People didn't realise how enormously hard he worked, " the fund manager said. "He got up at 4.30am and wasn't back home until 9.30pm."
There’s an urban legend going round about corporate medicals. A middle-aged man, recruited to the board of a British company, is invited to a £1, 500...
You know an idea is beginning to take off when entrepreneurs try to make money out of it.
Almost a third of companies offering health insurance benefits to their employees also provide a wellness program of some sort, however opponents...
Will the end of this month find you cat napping at your desk when we move into Daylight Saving Time (DST)?
Everybody wonders about the future of healthcare. But what do the people at the front line of healthcare think about?
Gerard Kleisterlee, president and CEO of Philips, believes the same trends affecting global healthcare are also influencing his employees across the...
Rising healthcare premiums have companies shifting costs, pushing "wellness, " and punishing unhealthy behaviour.
A review of trends and initiatives sponsored by Philips and written in co-operation with the Economist Intelligence Unit
Patient empowerment is a big theme in healthcare, but what rights do citizens really have?
India has made significant progress in improving healthcare, but there are huge challenges in extending basic services to the rural population.
What should employers do about healthcare?
The workplace has an important role to play in the health of a society.
The Economist Intelligence Unit investigates the complex issues behind corporate health plans
Simon Lovestone, a British molecular scientist, hopes one day to make a significant contribution to addressing one of the pressing medical issues of...