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Below are news releases relating to imaging, medical advances, promising research studies and the S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

• Coronary Angiography (CTA) scanning used to rule-out heart attack of patients who enter the ER with chest pain. Daniel S. Berman, MD, Chief of Cardiac Imaging at the S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center at Cedar-Sinai Medical center was interviewed by NPR affiliate WHYY. Click here to listen to the audio report. (June 2, 2008)
• Low-Dose Coronary CT Angiogram
  "Predicting a Heart Attack in 10 Seconds: Daniel Berman, MD Interview" (pdf) April 23, 2008.
• Radiofrequency Ablation
  "Minimally Invasive Radiofrequency Ablation Successfully Removes Teen Drummer's Painful Benign Bone Tumor" (pdf) April 2008.
• Vertebroplasty
  "Long-term data show vertebroplasty effective for osteoporotic vertebral collapse" (Reuters Health pdf), March 18, 2008.
• Low-Dose Coronary CTA
  "Team develops low-dose coronary angiogram" (Medical Imaging pdf) December 2007
• Coronary CTA
  "CMS makes no change to coronary CTA payments
  In a victory for advocates of coronary CT angiography (CTA), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) today decided to make no change to the way it reimburses for coronary CTA exams. With the decision, CT advocates have dodged a bullet that many feared could have killed the promising new field of cardiac imaging with CT." (AuntMinnie.com)
• Micro-Dose Coronary CT Angiography
  "New Test Could Prevent Heart Attacks"
  (WEHONews.com pdf)
• RFA of Kidney Tumors
  "Kidney Tumors Can't Stand the Heat: New Radio Frequency Ablation Vaporizes Inoperable Tumors"
  (pdf)
• MRI
  "MRI Ok for Patients with Newer Implanted Cardiac Devices" (Aunt Minnie pdf).
• Vertebral Compression Fracture Management
  "Minimally Invasive Procedure Eases Pain of Spine Fractures" (Click Here for Article pdf)
• Breakthrough Coma Reversal with Glue
  Franklin Moser, MD uses glue to seal a spinal fluid leak and saves Algis Bliudzius' life. (www.ivanhoe.com)
• CT Colonography
  "Trial results unveiled today marked the apparent end of a long road to validation for virtual colonoscopy, or CT colonography..." (pdf)
• CT Screening
  "British advisory panel deems CT screening tests safe and effective." (Health Day pdf)
• American College of Radiology (pdf)
  Barry D. Pressman, MD is elected president of the American College of Radiology.
• "Comatose patient regains consciousness after biosynthetic 'glue' seals spinal fluid leak." (pdf)
• Radiofrequency Ablation
  "Lung RFA shows long-term survival benefits." (Diagnostic Imaging pdf).
• Breast MRI
  "Yearly breast MRIs urged for 1.4 million women" (MSNBC).
• Breast MRI
  "MR imaging has great value in guiding treatment of breast cancer patients and is well worth the extra expense when used appropriately" (Diagnostic Imaging pdf).
• Coronary CTA
  "A wealth of evidence is being presented attesting to the fact that coronary CTA is a powerful and useful tool to evaluate patients suspected of coronary artery disease who are at intermediate risk" (Diagnostic Imaging pdf).
• PET
  PET provides early diagnosis of dementia, which allows initiation of drug therapy at the earliest time. (Diagnostic Imaging pdf)
• Arteriovenous Malformation Embolization
  Neuroradiologist Marcel Maya, MD interviewed on ABC7 News (Senator's Illness Explained) explaining Senator Tim Johnson's illness and surgery.
• Cardiac MRI
  "Cardiac MR imaging should be performed in elderly patients with acute chest pain to rule out Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as broken heart syndrome." (Diagnostic Imaging)
• Lung Cancer
  Dr. Peter Julien speaks with the Beverly Hills Courier about the best way to detect lung cancer.
• Dual-Source CT
  "Dual-source CT (DSCT) is the best option for the detection of coronary artery stenosis and the elimination of artifacts created by a patient's heart rate." (Aunt Minnie) (pdf)
• CT Lung Screening
  A recent article in the New Englnad Journal of Medicine showed that a CT
  exam to screen for lung cancer can be an important way to find the disease
  early in smokers and others at-risk individuals.
• CT Colonography (pdf)
  "Multinational study cements safety of CT colonography." (Diagnostic Imaging)
  
• Breast MRI for Screening of High Risk Women
  "Screening with MRI becomes more cost-effective as breast cancer risk increases." (Diagnostic Imaging)
  
• Tumor Ablation (pdf)
  "Heating, Destroying Lung Tumors Extends Lives." (HealthDay.com

• PET Scans Predict Breast Cancer Spread (August 22, 2006 )"Positron emisson tomography (PET) can help doctors ascertain whether breast cancer had spread to the axillary lymph nodes in the armpit areas, California researchers have determined." - Courtesy of HealthDay.com
• The New England Journal of Medicine (pdf)
  A panel of experts, including Sean W. Hayes, MD , John D. Friedman, MD and Daniel S. Berman, MD FACC of the S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has suggested that an assesment of dyspnea should be incorporated
  into the clinical evaluation of patients referred for cardiac stress testing.
• Journal of Nuclear Cardiology (pdf)
  "Noninvasive imaging in coronary artery disease: changing roles, changing players," by Daniel S. Berman , MD FACC.

• Tumors Can't Stand the Heat: New Radio Frequency Ablation Uses Heat Instead of Surgery to Vaporize Inoperable Kidney and Liver Tumors, Often Within 15 Minutes (June 22, 2007)

• Chair of Cedars-Sinai's S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center Elected President of the American College of Radiology (May 31, 2007)

• Comatose Patient Regains Consciousness After Biosynthetic "Glue" Seals Spinal Fluid Leak (May 25, 2007)