FierceBiotech

Canon Medical thinks Cleerly to combine AI imaging analysis with cardiac CT

To improve early detection and diagnosis of cardiovascular disease—the leading cause of death worldwide—Canon Medical Systems has struck up a heart-to-heart with Cleerly Health. They’ll do so by ...

Researchers unveil new algorithm to dramatically speed up stroke detection scans

When someone walks into an emergency room with symptoms of a stroke, every second matters. But today, diagnosing the type of ...

Use of head CT scans in ERs more than doubles over 15 years

A new study shows large increases in the use of computed tomography (CT) scans of the head in emergency departments across ...
MobiHealthNews

UnitedHealthcare to cover HeartFlow's personalized, noninvasive CT scan analysis tech

HeartFlow, a company that specializes in creating computerized heart models to treat coronary diseases, announced that its HeartFlow fractional flow reserved from CT (FFRct) Analysis will be covered ...
NBC Washington

Some CT scans may have too much radiation, researchers say

Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine’s most ...
The Yazoo Herald

Early detection saves lives: low-dose CT scans key to fighting lung cancer

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S. One of the reasons why is that it often goes unnoticed until it reaches an advanced stage.
The Providence Journal

Coping with cancer: You're able to move on, until the next scan

As happens every six months, it is time again, and now, this past Monday at 8:30 a.m., I am being escorted into the CT scan room at The Miriam Hospital and asked to lie on the slide table. I make ...