The Crosser Catheter System from FlowCardia is a new device for use in the war against chronic total occlusion. The Crosser Catheter System provides interventionalists with another excellent tool; I watched as it performed well, crossing a total occlusion in a superficial femoral artery. The patient was not an ideal candidate for surgery. The ...

Pssst.  Have you heard about the new mode in the lab? That's right - there's a new imaging mode that we'll need to learn to use. It's called E-Mode (a.k.a. ''ultrasound elastography'' or ''sonoelastography''). Elastography provides information on the elastic modulus, or stiffness, of tissues. You can consider elastography as an imaging mode ...

Randy Reichenfeld. Lois Cone. Amber Lamar. Louis M. Izzo. Garnold Bodenheimer. Samantha Natiello.Sarah Brettrager. Just a few days ago, I'd never heard of any of these people. I've now come to learn they're just some of the 50---50!---men and women who have already signed up as fans of ADVANCE for Imaging and Radiation Therapy Professionals' ...

By now most of us have seen at least one of the Dove ads celebrating women as part of the company's ''Campaign for Real Beauty.'' According to its website, the campaign aims to free women from ''beauty stereotypes'' and even supports a ''Self-Esteem Fund.''  While the ads have proven somewhat controversial in the media, their core message is ...

With the current concerns about the molybdenum-99 shortages it was interesting to read in the 9-14 issue of Medical News Today that researchers at Delft University of technology in the Netherlands had received a patent for a unique way to producing that isotope. According to the article, while the current suppliers of Mo-99 use enriched uranium ...

According to a recent study by the Center for Studying Health System Change, Americans are increasingly using the Internet to get health information. In 2007, almost 58 percent of the U.S. population--or more than 122 million people--sought health information from sources other than their doctor, as compared to only about 38 percent or ...

Researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel recently published the results of a study regarding the effect of severe life events on a woman's risk of developing breast cancer.  About 255 women under 45 who had been diagnosed with breast cancer were part of the study group, along with 367 healthy women of the ...

In what will hopefully be a positive leap for cancer research, South Texas Accelerated Research Therapeutics is establishing a tumor bank in San Antonio. Cancer patients can donate their tumors to help find a cure and to help therapy research. Read the article here.

When it came to writing the August 25 cover story, ''The Quest for an AIDS Vaccine,'' I found so much information on the potential vaccine that I didn't know what to do with it all. I also discovered many institutions around the world are at different points with creating a vaccine. Recently, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon are looking into tracing cells within the body using fluorocarbon tagging, according to a press release on Eurekalert. While MRS can be used to identify signatures of elements in the body, it is generally considered less sensitive than nuclear medicine for tracer imaging. Indeed, the ability to label ...