A unique strategy developed by researchers at Cardiff University is opening up new possibilities for improving medical imaging.

Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) was selected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as one of five conveners of a demonstration project that promotes appropriate utilization of advanced imaging services, CMS announced recently.

Nearly 35 percent of all the imaging costs ordered for 2,068 orthopaedic patient encounters in Pennsylvania were ordered for defensive purposes, according to a new study presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS).

Astronomers have a neat trick they sometimes use to compensate for the turbulence of the atmosphere that blurs images made by ground-based telescopes. They create an artificial star called a guide star and use its twinkling to compensate for the atmospheric turbulence.

Clinicians should be careful about using x-rays on pregnant women and infants because of the potential for a slight increase in the risk of children developing cancer, concludes a new study published on the British Medical Journal website.