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NDTV
3 days ago
- Automotive
- NDTV
Toyota FJ Cruiser Design Patent Leaked- Will It Come To India?
Toyota teased a shadowy teaser of an SUV two years ago, showing a boxy design. Since then, there have been multiple hints that the Japanese manufacturer is putting in efforts to develop a relatively small off-road capable SUV. However, until now, we have not had a clear view of the vehicle's design. This changes now as the design patent of the new Toyota FJ Cruiser has surfaced. The automaker filed the design patent back in January 2024, but it was only recently discovered. The image shows multiple similarities to the shadowy image showcased by the automaker earlier. Because of the details of the SUV revealed earlier, it was touted to be a mini-Fortuner. Many reports even claimed that this SUV will be the latest addition to the automaker's India lineup. But is this claim based on facts? We will circle back to the question after taking a look at the design of the SUV. With a butch design, the Toyota FJ Cruiser will likely be based on an altered version of the IMV ladder frame chassis. This platform has been employed by the brand on the Hilux Champ pickup, which is on sale in some Asian countries like Thailand and Indonesia. In the Indian market, this platform underpins the Hilux, Fortuner, and Innova Crysta. The image also reveals that the FJ Cruiser will have a design consisting of straight lines. This will be complemented by the presence of prominent front fenders, thick C-pillars, and an upright rear end with a full-size spare wheel mounted on the rear gate. Meanwhile, the lower end of the vehicle, including the bumpers, fenders, and side skirts, are covered in plastic cladding, highlighting its off-road capabilities. The brand also seems to have placed the SUV rather high off the ground. This quality of the vehicle will be even more pronounced if equipped with off-road capable tires when it enters the real world. There is no word on the powertrain of the vehicle. However, the SUV is likely to have a 2.7-litre four-cylinder petrol engine of the brand, which is also found under the hood of the Fortuner. Toyota has not ascertained that the FJ Cruiser will be launched in the Indian market. However, if it finds its way into the subcontinent, it will likely be placed below the Fortuner to compete against the likes of the Mahindra Thar Roxx.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
New IMV Study Reveals Key Trends in U.S. Breast Imaging: Procedure Growth, Equipment Plans, and Patient Priorities
ARLINGTON, Va., June 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- IMV Medical Information Division, a part of Science and Medicine Group, announces the release of its 2025 Mammography and Breast Imaging Market Outlook Report, providing in-depth insights into the current and future state of the U.S. breast imaging market. Based on an IMV-hosted online survey conducted from January to March 2025 with over 200 mammography professionals from U.S. hospitals and imaging centers, this in-depth report explores key trends and priorities in mammography and breast imaging, from procedure volume to equipment planning and technology adoption. "The results of IMV's survey indicate that 78% of respondents anticipate an increase in mammography procedures in 2025 compared to 2024," said Davin Korstjens, Director of Market Intelligence (Diagnostic Imaging) Insights. "This trend aligns with projections for new cases of invasive breast cancer and ductal carcinoma in situ, reinforcing the need for expanded imaging services and upgraded equipment." Key Insights from the 2025 Report: Mammography procedure volumes are expected to rise by high single-digit percentages year-over-year. Over 60% of procedures are diagnostic; more than one-third are for screening. Hologic remains the most considered OEM, followed by GE and Siemens. Patient satisfaction is ranked as the top departmental priority. A Strategic Tool for Decision-Makers With over 160 data-rich charts and exhibits across 155+ pages, this report enables decision-makers to: Benchmark procedure volumes, installed base metrics, and technology adoption by hospital size and facility type. Understand the equipment landscape and identify future purchasing behavior across OEMs. Track developments in biopsy techniques and additional breast imaging modalities. Develop data-driven strategies for marketing, investment, service offerings, and product development. Who Should Read This Report? This report is essential for professionals across the medical imaging ecosystem, including: Product & Marketing Managers at OEMs like Hologic, GE Healthcare, and Siemens Sales & Commercial Teams targeting growth markets Radiology Department Heads and Hospital Administrators Imaging Consultants and Strategic Advisors Private Equity and Investment Analysts evaluating diagnostic imaging opportunities Service Providers monitoring OEM vs. third-party service trends Purchase and Learn More The 2025 Mammography and Breast Imaging Market Outlook Report is now available for purchase. View Report and Purchase For custom research or consultation inquiries, contact: Daniel SulloIMV Sales For all other inquiries contact:Alisa AlvichMarketing About IMV IMV Medical Information Division, a part of Science and Medicine Group, is a leading provider of market research and business intelligence in medical imaging and advanced healthcare technologies. Since 1977, IMV has supported strategic planning and product development through reliable market data, benchmarking studies, and proprietary databases covering radiology, cardiology, and oncology imaging markets. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE IMV Medical Information Division Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Hans India
14-05-2025
- Hans India
Youth booked for rash riding in Manipal
Manipal: A youth has been booked for rash riding and multiple traffic violations after a video showing him riding a scooter in a negligent manner went viral on social media, prompting swift action from the local police. The incident took place around 2:30 pm on Tuesday near Babbu Swamy Daivasthana Circle in Manipal. The accused, identified as Mohammad Afrad, was seen riding a Yamaha Fascino (registration number KA 20 EY 8535) without a helmet and using a mobile phone while in motion. The video, widely shared online, also showed two women riding pillion—exceeding the legal passenger limit for two-wheelers. Following public concern over the apparent disregard for road safety, Manipal police initiated an inquiry and registered a case against Afrad on Tuesday. He has been booked under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Indian Motor Vehicles (IMV) Act.
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Some CT Scans Deliver Too Much Radiation, Researchers Say
Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine's most valuable tools, computerized tomography scans, can sometimes cause cancer. Smith-Bindman and like-minded colleagues have long pushed for federal policies aimed at improving safety for patients undergoing CT scans. Under new Medicare regulations effective this year, hospitals and imaging centers must start collecting and sharing more information about the radiation their scanners emit. About 93 million CT scans are performed every year in the United States, according to IMV, a medical market research company that tracks imaging. More than half of those scans are for people 60 and older. Yet there is scant regulation of radiation levels as the machines scan organs and structures inside bodies. Dosages are erratic, varying widely from one clinic to another, and are too often unnecessarily high, Smith-Bindman and other critics say. 'It's unfathomable,' Smith-Bindman said. 'We keep doing more and more CTs, and the doses keep going up.' One CT scan can expose a patient to 10 or 15 times as much radiation as another, Smith-Bindman said. 'There is very large variation,' she said, 'and the doses vary by an order of magnitude — tenfold, not 10% different — for patients seen for the same clinical problem.' In outlier institutions, the variation is even higher, according to research she and a team of international collaborators have published. She and other researchers estimated in 2009 that high doses could be responsible for 2% of cancers. Ongoing research shows it's probably higher, since far more scans are performed today. The cancer risk from CT scans for any individual patient is very low, although it rises for patients who have numerous scans throughout their lives. Radiologists don't want to scare off patients who can benefit from imaging, which plays a crucial role in identifying life-threatening conditions like cancers and aneurysms and guides doctors through complicated procedures. But the new data collection rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued in the closing months of the Biden administration are aimed at making imaging safer. They also require a more careful assessment of the dosing, quality, and necessity of CT scans. The requirements, rolled out in January, are being phased in over about three years for hospitals, outpatient settings, and physicians. Under the complicated reporting system, not every radiologist or health care setting is required to comply immediately. Providers could face financial penalties under Medicare if they don't comply, though those will be phased in, too, starting in 2027. When the Biden administration issued the new guidelines, a CMS spokesperson said in an email that excessive and unnecessary radiation exposure was a health risk that could be addressed through measurement and feedback to hospitals and physicians. The agency at the time declined to make an official available for an interview. The Trump administration did not respond to a request for comment for this article. The Leapfrog Group, an organization that tracks hospital safety, welcomed the new rules. 'Radiation exposure is a very serious patient safety issue, so we commend CMS for focusing on CT scans,' said Leah Binder, the group's president and CEO. Leapfrog has set standards for pediatric exposure to imaging radiation, 'and we find significant variation among hospitals,' Binder added. CMS contracted with UCSF in 2019 to research solutions aimed at encouraging better measurement and assessment of CTs, leading to the development of the agency's new approach. The American College of Radiology and three other associations involved in medical imaging, however, objected to the draft CMS rules when they were under review, arguing in written comments in 2023 that they were excessively cumbersome, would burden providers, and could add to the cost of scans. The group was also concerned, at that time, that health providers would have to use a single, proprietary tech tool for gathering the dosing and any related scan data. The single company in question, Alara Imaging, supplies free software that radiologists and radiology programs need to comply with the new regulations. The promise to keep it free is included in the company's copyright. Smith-Bindman is a co-founder of Alara Imaging, and UCSF also has a stake in the company, which is developing other health tech products unrelated to the CMS imaging rule that it does plan to commercialize. But the landscape has recently changed. ACR said in a statement from Judy Burleson, ACR vice president for quality management programs, that CMS is allowing in other vendors — and that ACR itself is 'in discussion with Alara' on the data collection and submission. In addition, a company called Medisolv, which works on health care quality, said at least one client is working with another vendor, Imalogix, on the CT dose data. Several dozen health quality and safety organizations — including some national leaders in patient safety, like the Institute of Healthcare Improvement — have supported CMS' efforts. Concerns about CT dosing are long-standing. A landmark study published in JAMA Internal Medicine in 2009 by a research team that included experts from the National Cancer Institute, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and universities estimated that CT scans were responsible for 29,000 excess cancer cases a year in the United States, about 2% of all cases diagnosed annually. But the number of CT scans kept climbing. By 2016, it was estimated at 74 million, up 20% in a decade, though radiologists say dosages of radiation per scan have declined. Some researchers have noted that U.S. doctors order far more imaging than physicians in other developed countries, arguing some of it is wasteful and dangerous. More recent studies, some looking at pediatric patients and some drawing on radiation exposure data from survivors of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, have also identified CT scan risk. Older people may face greater cancer risks because of imaging they had earlier in life. And scientists have emphasized the need to be particularly careful with children, who may be more vulnerable to radiation exposure while young and face the consequences of cumulative exposure as they age. Max Wintermark, a neuroradiologist at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, who has been involved in the field's work on appropriate utilization of imaging, said doctors generally follow dosing protocols for CT scans. In addition, the technology is improving; he expects artificial intelligence to soon help doctors determine optimal imaging use and dosing, delivering 'the minimum amount of radiation dose to get us to the diagnosis that we're trying to reach.' But he said he welcomes the new CMS regulations. 'I think the measures will help accelerate the transition towards always lower and lower doses,' he said. 'They are helpful.' KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF — the independent source for health policy research, polling, and journalism. The post Some CT Scans Deliver Too Much Radiation, Researchers Say appeared first on Katie Couric Media.
Yahoo
08-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Some CT scans may have too much radiation, researchers say
Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine's most valuable tools, computerized tomography scans, can sometimes cause cancer. Smith-Bindman and like-minded colleagues have long pushed for federal policies aimed at improving safety for patients undergoing CT scans. Under new Medicare regulations effective this year, hospitals and imaging centers must start collecting and sharing more information about the radiation their scanners emit. About 93 million CT scans are performed every year in the United States, according to IMV, a medical market research company that tracks imaging. More than half of those scans are for people 60 and older. Yet there is scant regulation of radiation levels as the machines scan organs and structures inside bodies. Dosages are erratic, varying widely from one clinic to another, and are too often unnecessarily high, Smith-Bindman and other critics say. 'It's unfathomable,' Smith-Bindman said. 'We keep doing more and more CTs, and the doses keep going up.' One CT scan can expose a patient to 10 or 15 times as much radiation as another, Smith-Bindman said. 'There is very large variation,' she said, 'and the doses vary by an order of magnitude — tenfold, not 10% different — for patients seen for the same clinical problem.' In outlier institutions, the variation is even higher, according to research she and a team of international collaborators have published. She and other researchers estimated in 2009 that high doses could be responsible for 2% of cancers. Ongoing research shows it's probably higher, since far more scans are performed today. The cancer risk from CT scans for any individual patient is very low, although it rises for patients who have numerous scans throughout their lives. Radiologists don't want to scare off patients who can benefit from imaging, which plays a crucial role in identifying life-threatening conditions like cancers and aneurysms and guides doctors through complicated procedures. But the new data collection rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued in the closing months of the Biden administration are aimed at making imaging safer. They also require a more careful assessment of the dosing, quality, and necessity of CT scans. The requirements, rolled out in January, are being phased in over about three years for hospitals, outpatient settings, and physicians. Under the complicated reporting system, not every radiologist or health care setting is required to comply immediately. Providers could face financial penalties under Medicare if they don't comply, though those will be phased in, too, starting in 2027. When the Biden administration issued the new guidelines, a CMS spokesperson said in an email that excessive and unnecessary radiation exposure was a health risk that could be addressed through measurement and feedback to hospitals and physicians. The agency at the time declined to make an official available for an interview. The Trump administration did not respond to a request for comment for this article. The Leapfrog Group, an organization that tracks hospital safety, welcomed the new rules. 'Radiation exposure is a very serious patient safety issue, so we commend CMS for focusing on CT scans,' said Leah Binder, the group's president and CEO. Leapfrog has set standards for pediatric exposure to imaging radiation, 'and we find significant variation among hospitals,' Binder added. CMS contracted with UCSF in 2019 to research solutions aimed at encouraging better measurement and assessment of CTs, leading to the development of the agency's new approach. The American College of Radiology and three other associations involved in medical imaging, however, objected to the draft CMS rules when they were under review, arguing in written comments in 2023 that they were excessively cumbersome, would burden providers, and could add to the cost of scans. The group was also concerned, at that time, that health providers would have to use a single, proprietary tech tool for gathering the dosing and any related scan data. The single company in question, Alara Imaging, supplies free software that radiologists and radiology programs need to comply with the new regulations. The promise to keep it free is included in the company's copyright. Smith-Bindman is a co-founder of Alara Imaging, and UCSF also has a stake in the company, which is developing other health tech products unrelated to the CMS imaging rule that it does plan to commercialize. But the landscape has recently changed. ACR said in a statement from Judy Burleson, ACR vice president for quality management programs, that CMS is allowing in other vendors — and that ACR itself is 'in discussion with Alara' on the data collection and submission. In addition, a company called Medisolv, which works on health care quality, said at least one client is working with another vendor, Imalogix, on the CT dose data. Several dozen health quality and safety organizations — including some national leaders in patient safety, like the Institute of Healthcare Improvement — have supported CMS' efforts. Concerns about CT dosing are long-standing. A landmark study published in JAMA Internal Medicine in 2009 by a research team that included experts from the National Cancer Institute, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and universities estimated that CT scans were responsible for 29,000 excess cancer cases a year in the United States, about 2% of all cases diagnosed annually. But the number of CT scans kept climbing. By 2016, it was estimated at 74 million, up 20% in a decade, though radiologists say dosages of radiation per scan have declined. Some researchers have noted that U.S. doctors order far more imaging than physicians in other developed countries, arguing some of it is wasteful and dangerous. More recent studies, some looking at pediatric patients and some drawing on radiation exposure data from survivors of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, have also identified CT scan risk. Older people may face greater cancer risks because of imaging they had earlier in life. And scientists have emphasized the need to be particularly careful with children, who may be more vulnerable to radiation exposure while young and face the consequences of cumulative exposure as they age. Max Wintermark, a neuroradiologist at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, who has been involved in the field's work on appropriate utilization of imaging, said doctors generally follow dosing protocols for CT scans. In addition, the technology is improving; he expects artificial intelligence to soon help doctors determine optimal imaging use and dosing, delivering 'the minimum amount of radiation dose to get us to the diagnosis that we're trying to reach.' But he said he welcomes the new CMS regulations. 'I think the measures will help accelerate the transition towards always lower and lower doses,' he said. 'They are helpful.' This article was originally published on
