'''Having complete IV start kits or central line insertion kits to reduce gel type variability and, thus gel contamination and following AIUM and INS disinfection recommendations are 2 ways to prevent health care-acquired ...'

'''Current drug-delivery systems used to administer chemotherapy to cancer patients typically release a constant dose of the drug over time - but a new study challenges this slow and steady approach and offers a novel way to locally deliver the drugs on ...'

'''After a 2011 outbreak of P. aeruginosa, investigators at Beaumont Health System near Detroit, Michigan determined contaminated ultrasound gel was the source of bacteria causing the healthcare-associated infection. The findings emphasize the need for ...'

'''One of the methods used to treat a tumor is to focus ultrasound waves to heat cancer cells to 60C - destroying them and leaving healthy tissue largely unharmed. But to use the technique to treat liver tumors presents a major problem because the organ ...'

'''Diagnosis of prostate cancer remains imperfect. Current methods of prostate biopsy are limited by over detection of slow-growing tumors and under detection of clinically relevant cancers. Investigators at the University of California-Los Angeles ...'

'''Dynarex Corporation, a leading manufacturer of a broad range of medical products located in Orangeburg, NY, is pleased to introduce Ultrasound Gel. The Ultrasound Gel is electroconductive gel media to facilitate the ultrasonic pulsed echo imaging system. ...'

'''Researchers at the University of Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth, UK) are aiming to develop a system that will enable doctors to improve the diagnosis of prostate cancer. Lead researcher Professor Reyer Zwiggelaar has received £60,100 from The Prostate ...'

'''While visiting the Los Angeles Zoo to lend her expertise in cardiac ultrasound imaging, Dr. Barbara Natterson, MD, realized a profound truth about medicine: Humans and other animals experience the same diseases. As Natterson, a cardiologist at the ...'