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New Model Developed for Identifying Placenta Accreta
The new predictive model is based on three clinical factors – the presence of placenta previa (yes/no), the number of previous cesarean deliveries, and ultrasound suspicion of accreta (high/low).

Global Ultrasound Sales Projected to Grow 29% Over 5 Years
InMedica Projects global ultrasound sales to grow 29% over the next five years, with the Asia Pacific region enjoying the strongest growth at 43%.

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound monitors aortic aneurysm treatment
Study supports the addition of contrast-enhanced ultrasound as a complementary tool in the follow-up of patients who undergo endovascular repair for abdominal aortic aneurysms.

Glue for varicose veins
A fast-acting glue is being hailed as a breakthrough treatment for varicose veins. Quicker than existing treatments, it requires less local anaesthetic, and patients can immediately resume normal activities, specialists claim.

Study questions use of IVUS in Renal Artery Stenting
The use of newer technologies in renal artery stenting, such as drug-eluting stents (DES), distal protection devices and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), appear to have no advantageous effect on re-hospitalization and mortality and add more than $43,000 to the healthcare system,

Acoustic Diode Developed
An acoustic diode, enabling the one-way transmission of sound waves, could dramatically improve the quality of medical ultrasound imaging and lead to better sound dampening materials.

Ultrasound-Guided Pacemaker Lead Placement Improves Outcomes for Heart Failure Patients
Ultrasound determination of the ideal location for implanting a biventricular pacemaker’s left ventricular lead can reduce the rates of death or hospitalization for some heart failure patients.

SonoSite and AIIT Establish Ultrasound Training Program in Kenya
The program is designed to provide physicians, midwives and clinical workers with greater access to ultrasound education, training, and medical resources to improve the health and welfare of the people in the region.

Ultrasound-Based Renal Denervation For Resistant Hypertension Enters First Trials
Patients enrolled in the study were selected based on a history of hypertension which could not be controlled with medical therapy.

Use of ABUS slashes physician time spent on breast cancer screening
Study presented at ARRS reports that automated breast ultrasound takes an average of three minutes of physician time for reading.

$78.5 Million Jury Verdict In Philadelphia Birth Injury Case
The jury found that the doctor was not responsible, blaming what happened on the hospital. Ultrasound equipment provided by hospital was outdated, insensitive and poorly maintained, and medical center did not have an ultrasound technician present in the hospital because it was a Sunday.

Nanoparticles track brain tumors
Triple modality approach uses MRI, Photoacoustic Imaging and Raman Imaging with Nanoparticles. Future potential for ultrasound-mediated direct treatment.

Ultrasound reveals cause of 'brain freeze' when eating ice cream
Results may also help chronic migraine sufferers say experts

Mental Stress May Be Harder on Women's Hearts
Researchers Find Blood Flow to Women's Hearts Doesn't Increase in Face of Stress

$1,135 for an ultrasound? Yes, depending on where you get it and whether you are insured.
A study at the University of California, San Francisco found a startling range of prices charged for treating a single medical condition.

Ultrasound May Safely Rule Out DVT in Pregnancy
For pregnant and postpartum women, a single complete compression ultrasonography may safely exclude a diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis, but larger study needed to confirm results.

Shanghai authorities talk tough on fetal ultrasound for gender determination.
Officials said the practice may constitute an illegal check of the fetus' gender.

Team develops new method for filming the ultrasound-mediated release of drugs inside cells
The method makes use of the fastest camera in the world, which can film at a rate of 25 million images per second.

Automated breast volume sonography improves screening and diagnosis of breast cancer for Asian women
A new study from researchers at the Bangkok Breast Center shows significant improvement in the detection of breast cancer in Asian women using automated breast volume sonography (ABVS) as compared to hand-held ultrasound (HHUS)

Dr. Who Sonic Screwdriver?
a team of physicists at the University of Dundee have taken equipment designed for MRI-guided focused ultrasound surgery and demonstrated a real Sonic Screwdriver - lifting and spinning a free-floating 10 cm diameter rubber disk with an ultrasound beam.

Will your iPad do ultrasound in the future?
In a recent patent application Sonosite proposes a housing for tablet computers that comes with an attached ultrasound probe. The case also includes additional components that will probably be used for pre-processing the signal coming from the probe and a battery to power the system.

HIFU Shows Promise as Alternative to Traditional Treatments for Prostate Cancer
Small proof of concept study demonstrates HIFU targeting identified areas of cancer offers good results and fewer side effects.

U.S. Marshals seize contaminated ultrasound gel
"The FDA warns health care professionals who perform ultrasound procedures to stop using Other-Sonic Generic Ultrasound Transmission Gel manufactured from June 2011 through December 2011, because of the risks posed by bacteria contamination".

Ultrasound gender test gang busted in Hubei, China
Police have apprehended a gang suspected of illegally offering ultrasound fetus gender tests from the backseat of a car in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province

Ultrasound provides key to estimation of intracranial pressure
Measurement of peripheral arterial blood pressure and ultrasound blood flow velocity in the middle cerebral artery are plugged into a computer model to indirectly estimate intracranial pressure.

FDA panel recommends approval for U-Systems breast screening system
FDA Radiological Devices Panel recommended approval of U-Systems Automated Breast Ultrasound (ABUS) system for breast cancer screening as an adjunct to mammography for asymptomatic women with dense breast tissue.

USA HHS Sets New Date for ICD-10 Compliance to October 2014
After announcing in mid-February that it was going to push back the compliance date for ICD-10, HHS has published a proposed rule that specifies Oct. 1, 2014 as the new date.

Ultrasound screening finds more breast cancer, but at a price
Adding ultrasound exams to annual breast cancer screening can detect more cancers in women who have dense breasts and are at a higher risk of breast cancer. However, false positive results and unnecessary biopsies may outweigh the benefits.

Operations for appendicitis could be cut out for good
Surgery for appendicitis should be abandoned and replaced with a course of antibiotics, experts say

Non-destructive pulsed focused ultrasound improves transplant cell delivery
A new technique for improving delivery of stem cells may lead to better and faster tissue repair, a breakthrough with promise for sports medicine and military populations.