A new report shows Queensland has five of Australia's 10 most environmentally sustainable cities.... More

Americans’ single largest source of radiation is medical imaging, and Americans get more of it than people in any other country.... More

LONDON, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- In times of an economic downturn, the refurbished medical imaging equipment market experiences a substantial upswing in comparison to the turnover with new equipment.... More

Repeated exposure to dental X-rays may be associated with an increased risk of developing thyroid cancer, according to new research.... More

People training to begin radiography jobs at a higher education institution in the north of England are to have access to new machines.... More

HUNTER New England Health has announced that work will soon begin on a $200,000 upgrade of the Medical Imaging Department at Moree District Hospital.... More

Radiation is part of everyday life. Flying in a plane, making dinner at your kitchen's granite countertop or walking by a building made of stone all expose you to radiation. ... More

A radiographer took his own life after blaming himself for a patient’s death. ... More

Daniela Herlig, Vice President of (SVMTRA) and Representative for International Affairs of the Association, wants every Swiss to read: “I can see clearly now…”,... More

The risk for false-positive results on lung cancer screening tests is substantial following only two annual exams, particularly for low-dose CT, based on the results of a study published in the April issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.... More

In evaluating the accuracy of radiography of the hip and pelvis in patients arriving in the emergency department (ED), researchers from the department of radiology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., found that radiography presented poor sensitivity and specificity findings in patients with pain or suspected trauma around these structures.... More

As the row continues about population growth in Australia, it is really fair for the finger of blame to be pointed at immigration policy and should the population growth be seen only as a problem?... More

March 29, 2010, 2:07 AM EDT More From Businessweek * Australian Dollar Jumps as Employers Add Most Jobs in 3 Years * N.Z. Dollar Falls on Retail Sales; Aussie Snaps Four-Week Slide * RBA Says Leading Economies Need to Reduce Spending (Update1) * Arabtec Unit Wins $227 Million of Abu Dhabi Contracts (Update1) * Taiwan to Delay Property Tax Reforms Amid Recovery (Update2) Story Tools * e-mail this story * print this story * digg this * save to del.icio.us * add to Business Exchange By Gemma Daley March 29 (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the Australian economy has emerged from the global recession and the government’s stimulus program is being phased down.... More

BLAME for the rising use of potentially cancer-causing CT scans in Australia has been directed at the federal government's frugal approach to the use of safer but more expensive diagnostic technology.... More

NICK D'Arcy has come across some confronting situations. Such as the young boy who burnt his entire throat and stomach in a suicide attempt by swallowing caustic soda.... More

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. government needs to establish national guidelines for controlling the amount of radiation a patient gets from diagnostic exams and treatments and the level of training required by a medical technician who delivers it, experts told a congressional panel on Friday.... More

Every day in the United States, tens of thousands of patients are exposed to ionizing radiation through radiation therapy, CT scans, x rays, mammograms, and other medical imaging and therapeutic procedures. Patients need to have confidence that the technologists caring for them have the credentials and qualifications to safely administer radiation, and that the equipment they are using is properly calibrated and maintained to deliver radiation safely and within the proper dose parameters.... More

The days of governments micromanaging policy areas are, generally speaking, long gone. But one notable exception is in the area of migration where governments of all hues feel the need to prescribe and proscribe who may enter Australia to such a degree that the message sent to the rest of the world is that getting into this country is about as difficult, to use that Biblical aphorism, as passing through the eye of a needle. ... More

Aussie tourism numbers in record high Arrivals and departures hit over 24.7m Defies international departure forecasts ... More

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Monitoring high-risk pregnancies with ultrasound tests may help prevent some fetal and newborn deaths, a new research review finds.... More

Modern diagnostic imaging has revolutionized medicine. In a matter of seconds, a computed tomography (CT) machine can produce extremely detailed images of any part of the body. Nuclear medicine tests, such as positron emission tomography (PET) or the technetium-based stress tests used widely in cardiovascular medicine, let doctors observe the inner workings of cells and tissues.... More

Stephanie Bedo | January 29th, 2010 THE Gold Coast has some of the worst waits on medical imaging in Australia, with a severe shortage in radiography and sonography staff nationwide being felt most here.... More

TWO local residents received Order of Australia Medals.... More

The Australian economy should post better than expected growth in 2010, after an index of leading indicators rose strongly in October.... More

FIFTY years after opening its doors, the Reserve Bank of Australia has published a historical declaration of independence: an assertion of the central bank's political legitimacy as it shifts to taming inflation in the wake of the global crisis... More

25 January 2010 – The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is planning to rush mobile X-ray units to Haiti in a bid to reach some of the 250,000 people injured in the catastrophic Haitian earthquake earlier this month.... More

Australian consumers are optimistic about the next six months, according to the latest MasterCard Worldwide Index of Consumer Confidence.... More

In the view of Commonwealth Bank chief economist Michael Blythe, a key feature of the Australian economy in 2009 was the development of a framework for a self-sustaining recovery, one that contained the key elements of a resumption in the capital expenditure boom and improvement in Australia's terms-of-trade, a pick up in residential construction levels and a turnaround in the labour market.... More

ScienceDaily (Jan. 5, 2010) — The new recommendations from the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) and the American College of Radiology (ACR) on breast cancer screening, published in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR), state that breast cancer screening should begin at age 40 and earlier in high-risk patients. The recommendations also suggest appropriate utilization of medical imaging modalities such as mammography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultrasound for breast cancer screening.... More

Average amount more than five times higher than annual exposure outside hospital, study shows... More

London, England (CNN) -- The X-ray machine was Wednesday named the most important scientific invention, in a poll marking the centenary of the Science Museum in London.... More

People undergoing X-rays often require an intravenous contrast injection to improve the quality of the information obtained. Some of these patients will develop acute kidney injury as a result, and may require dialysis or hospitalisation. New research released today has revealed that the effectiveness of a common treatment used in high-risk patients has been over-estimated and remains uncertain.... More

28 October, 2009 CONSUMER price inflation picked up pace last quarter, bolstering expectations that the Reserve Bank of Australia will further raise interest rates at its policy meeting next Tuesday.... More

Curtin University of Technology researchers have found a new way to minimise the radiation exposure patients are subjected to when undergoing Computed Radiography (CR), which has already attracting the attention of major manufacturers all over the world.... More

ScienceDaily (Oct. 23, 2009) — Computed tomography (CT) scans are better than standard radiography (X-rays) in showing the extent of disease in patients with the H1N1 virus, according to a study to be published online Oct. 21, 2009, in the American Journal of Roentgenology. The study will be published in the December issue of the AJR.... More

Changing demographics good for business and Immigrants present business opportunities... More

Earlier this month the UN ranked Australia as second in the World for quality of life. Norway is ranked number one at the moment. Australia could very well end up as number one for quality of life in next year's report. In Australia over a period of a year life expectancy went up three months and income rose four percent... More

Monday, 12 October 2009 Australian Labour Force Numbers released this month reveal that Australia's economy is showing strong growth, with full-time employment growing significantly.... More

15 September 2009 The number of job vacancies in Australia has recently gone up. This is the first increase in sixteen months. Also, the Sensis Consumer Report on consumer confidence is at 39 percent which is the highest level in fifteen months.... More