'Spending on healthcare in OECD countries is rising faster than economic growth, piling pressure budgets already hit by the 2008-09 recession, according to data published on Tuesday. And healthcare costs are likely to continue rising as populations ...'

'The SLAC linear collider in Menlo Park, California has already made a name for itself as one of the world's largest and most prolific particle accelerator facilities dedicated to high energy particle physics. It is now beginning a new life as a source ...'

'Imaging the internal dynamics of excited atoms and molecules with high spatial resolution requires fast, energetic pulses of x rays. As Matthias Hoener and colleagues from an international collaboration report in Physical Review Letters, initial results ...'

'A large, academic medical center implemented an imaging algorithm that allowed radiologists to successfully reduce the cumulative radiation exposure and number of computed tomography (CT) angiography (CTA) and CT perfusion studies performed on patients ...'

'Dilon Diagnostics, the industry leader in molecular breast imaging, today announced that the Society of Nuclear Medicine Procedure Guidelines Committee has released The SNM Procedure Guideline for Breast Scintigraphy with Breast-Specific Gamma ...'

'Probactive Biotech, Inc., a Garden Grove, California-based corporation, has entered into an agreement with Dalat Nuclear Research Institute to co-develop a number of cancer drugs, utilizing combinations of antitumor antibodies and antitumor radioactive ...'

'What is breast density? The denser the material is, the lighter it appears on an X-ray. Conversely, the less dense the material is, the darker it appears. On a breast X-ray - a mammogram - dark areas correspond to fat in the breast. Lighter areas ...'

'Naviscan's Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) technology was the focus of several presentations and discussions at the Society of Nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City. The focus represents a growing interest and validation of how PEM can ...'

'According to research revealed at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's 57th Annual Meeting, a multi-tracer molecular imaging technique using positron emission tomography (PET) provides detailed information about the physiological processes of cancerous ...'

'percent of all the radiation patients receive in the U.S. and today, at the Society for Nuclear Medicine annual meeting, Spectrum Dynamics announced it has begun clinical studies to show that its D-SPECT technology can accommodate significantly lower ...'