Earlier this month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a highly controversial health care reform bill (H.R. 3962), and this past weekend, the Senate voted to debate its own health care reform bill. Assuming the Senate passes a bill, a conference committee of House and Senate members will convene to settle differences between the two bills. ...

I recently read an article in my local paper about ''gender disappointment''. That's the term given to wanting a baby of one gender but having the opposite and the feelings of sadness that result. I never realized how big a deal this can be for some parents. According to the article, it affects more moms than dads (or could it be that dads just ...

Since October is both Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month and Breast Cancer Awareness Month, it seems fitting to extol the virtues of diagnostic medical sonography for breast applications.  In the past, sonographic examinations of the breast were primarily performed to determine if a previously detected mass was a cyst or a solid lesion. Thus, ...

 Although much of the public's attention is focused on October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, as most of us know, its also Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month.  That means its our chance to increase the public's knowledge about the field of sonography. Ideally, your employer has already made plans to celebrate MAUM, but if you or ...

Its disturbing to read about students having a bad experience that could be avoided. Another diagnostic medical sonography program is the focus of a class-action complaint because it allegedly misrepresented its accreditation status. As reported in the Huntington Beach Independent, three graduates of the Diagnostic Medical Ultrasound program at ...

The title of the article read ''Woman bleeds to death after doctor accidentally punctures jugular while inserting a drip - and no blood is available for transfusion''- clearly a tragic result of a relatively minor procedure gone terribly wrong. Two unfortunate situations combined to cause the death of this young British woman: Namely, the ...

SDMS Foundation's Sonography Certification Examination Grant Program As announced in the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography's August Newswave, the SDMS Foundation has recently announced that Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences will provide funding for the SDMS Foundation's Sonography Certification Examination Grant Program to ...

There is a bill in my home state of New Jersey that, if passed, will restrict the sale of ultrasound scanners. NJ Assembly Bill No. 3477 states: A person shall not sell, offer to sell, offer for promotional purposes, lease, or otherwise distribute in this State an obstetric gynecologic ultrasonic imager, except to a licensed health care ...

From my experience performing OB scans, parents-to-be who want to know the gender of their baby outnumber those who don't. When my wife was pregnant neither of us gave it a second thought - we were going to know if we were having a boy or girl as soon as we could. That might sound logical coming from a sonographer but then again I'm surprised at ...

A recently released medical ultrasound technology market report provides good news for manufacturers of ultrasound imaging (US) equipment. Sales of US scanners world wide is expected to reach $4.7 billion by the year 2012 with a particularly high demand for hand-carried (i.e., compact) scanners. The growing use of sonography by a variety of new ...