Just in case you're one of the two or three sonographers who haven't heard, musculoskeletal (MSK) sonography is growing rapidly throughout the world. Its use in Australia, Asia and Europe has been well established for years (partly due to the limited availability of competing modalities such as MRI). However, the use of MSK sonography in the ...

The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, kicked off Friday night as 32 million television viewers marveled at the spectacle. The city has been transformed by the world’s most talented athletes, competing fiercely to realize their highest hopes and dreams. This fierce competition does not come without risk, evidenced by the ...

The recent earthquake catastrophe in Haiti has spurred many to consider how they can help the Haitian people. Of course, there have been numerous opportunities to make charitable monetary donations, including highly publicized celebrity telethons at an international level as well as grass-roots efforts by school students and church groups wanting ...

As the end of the first decade of this century approaches and we enter ''twenty-ten,'' the future of sonography looks brighter than ever. In addition to steady improvements in image quality, enhanced usability of modern scanners and promising employment outlooks, many recent developments offer encouragement for sonography professionals, ...

The 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) took place in Chicago last week. This is by-far the largest medical imaging meeting in the world with attendees coming from all parts of the globe. The exhibit hall alone covered 456,525 sq. ft. and featured 706 vendors. Although I did not attend ...

 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 ...

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 ...

Call it a victim of its own success: Vast improvements in the quality of images obtained with three- and four-dimensional ultrasound technology have contributed to the modality's wide-spread use for non-medical reasons or ''entertainment OB scans.'' According to a Food and Drug Admin­istration's Consumer Health Information report entitled ...

 A recent online article described the results of a research study that included 1,399 adults and 963 children. Lo and behold, the research determined that the obesity epidemic in America is ''All Because of Food!'' Now, don't get me wrong---as a researcher myself, I am all in favor of research. But did we really need to do a study to ...

New Mexico is very close to becoming the first state of the Union to require licensing of all medical imaging professionals including sonographers. The ''Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Health and Safety Act'' is intended to help ensure public health and safety in New Mexico. If you work in that state and are already credentialed you can ...