Predictors of breast cancer screening in Asian and Latina University students.
Preventative screening in the form of clinical breast examinations remains among the best protections against breast cancer. Despite the benefits that regular examinations confer, many women fail to obtain screening tests. Because ethnic minority women are particularly unlikely to undergo regular screening, and experience increased mortality and morbidity as...

Center for Diagnostic Imaging Joins INPC.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-13 June 2008-Center for Diagnostic Imaging Joins INPC(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI) of Indianapolis has become the first outpatient imaging provider to participate in the Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC), a health information exchange and a state-wide network...

Mobile Diagnostic Centers Ink Pact to Purchase Mobile Imaging PET/CT Scanner.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-30 June 2008-Mobile Diagnostic Centers Ink Pact to Purchase Mobile Imaging PET/CT Scanner(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Mobile Imaging Development, a healthcare management company, recently announced that its limited partnership, Mobile Diagnostic Centers has entered into an agreement to purchase their first mobile PET/CT...

Research and Markets Adds: United States Diagnostic Imaging Medical Equipment Industry Report.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-30 June 2008-Research and Markets Adds: United States Diagnostic Imaging Medical Equipment Industry Report(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of "United States Diagnostic Imaging Medical equipment Industry Report : Detailed Analysis of the Medical Equipment & Medical Devices...

Tenet Subsidiary Plans to Close Irvine Regional Hospital and Medical Center.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-10 October 2008-Tenet Subsidiary Plans to Close Irvine Regional Hospital and Medical Center(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Tenet Healthcare announced that a company subsidiary plans to close Irvine Regional Hospital and Medical Center, including its emergency room, on Jan. 15, 2009. As...

iCardio Services Offers HeartSmartIMTplus Risk Screening to Its Cardiovascular Imaging Services.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-2 October 2008-iCardio Services Offers HeartSmartIMTplus Risk Screening to Its Cardiovascular Imaging Services(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Dr. Joshua Penn, M.D. FACC, managing partner of iCardio Services headquartered in Los Angeles, has added HeartSmartIMTplus risk assessment method to his company's list of diagnostic imaging...

Confirma and Medrad Link to Advance Patient Care in the European Union.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-3 September 2008-Confirma and Medrad Link to Advance Patient Care in the European Union(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Confirma, a provider of CADstream, a CAD operating system for MRI, and Medrad, a provider of medical devices and services for diagnostic imaging, announced that the...

Paying for advanced medical imaging.
Advances in imaging technology can promote earlier, safer, and more precise detection of disease. More than 80 million medical imaging tests are performed annually in the United States at a cost of more than $100 billion. About 15% of that testing is reported to be "unnecessary," including the cost...

Mastoiditis on MRI: fact or artifact?
Abstract Fluid signal in the mastoid can be an incidental finding on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging and often is interpreted as mastoiditis by radiologists. This study examines 28 consecutive cases of such erroneously diagnosed "mastoiditis" and documents the presence or absence of otologic symptoms and clinical signs....

GE Healthcare Buys Agility Healthcare Solutions.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-2 October 2008-GE Healthcare Buys Agility Healthcare Solutions(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, announced that it has acquired the privately held Agility Healthcare Solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed. According to a release,...