Hologic Inc., which makes mammogram systems and other women's health diagnostic tools, said Monday its fiscal first-quarter profit fell 32 percent, hurt by charges and continued capital spending restraint by hospitals. But the company said it is seeing early signs of stabilization in the mammogram equipment ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The National Institutes of Health plans to require that all makers of CT and other radiation-producing scanners used at NIH clinics have software that tracks a patient's radiation dose and logs it into an electronic medical record. The new policy arises from patient concerns about studies suggesting that repeated exposure to radiation from diagnostic tests may raise ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Some elderly women with severe cognitive impairment are getting mammography breast cancer screening even though they are unlikely to ever benefit from it, a new study finds. Researchers found that among more than 2,100 U.S. women age 70 and older, 18 percent of those with advanced cognitive impairment had received a screening mammogram in ...