In recognition of National Health IT Week, CMS has launched three new resources designed to ease participation in the Physician Quality Reporting System. The training modules are offered through the agency’s eHealth University, which provides education on all of CMS’s eHealth programs, including Meaningful Use, Administrative Simplification and ICD-10. {read more here}

Quantitative PET metrics including metabolic tumor volume using F-18 FDG can project heath outcomes after chemoradiotherapy for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to a study presented Wednesday during the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) held Sept. 14-17 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. {read more here}

Using PET imaging, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have linked a receptor in the brain associated with emotions to a narrow cluster of trauma symptoms, including sadness, emotional detachment, and listlessness. {read more here}

While guidelines recommend FDG-PET/CT only as an optional workup for women with stage III breast cancer, the hybrid modality can help women younger than 40 who have potentially aggressive stage II breast cancer, according to a study published online September 11 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. {read more here}