The Society's newsletter, SDMS News Wave, is published in an electronic-only (PDF) format on the SDMS website. Articles appearing in the August 2010 issue of SDMS News Wave include:

1. Interest in Musculoskeletal Sonography Growing in America
2. President’s Message
3. August iPod Touch Winner
4. 15 Reasons You Must Attend the 2010 SDMS Annual Conference
5. Helping Hands: Fledging Sonography Education Program in Africa Needs Assistance
6. Upcoming SDMS Webinars
7. SDMS Product Spotlight
8. SDMS Fellow Spotlight
9. SDMS Benefit Spotlight
10. Celebrate Sonography 2010
11. New Member Scan
12. Current Hot Topic in the SDMS Discussion Forums
13. SDMS Welcomes New Members

NOTE: These headlines link directly to SDMS News Wave in Adobe PDF format, which requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0 or later. You can download a free copy at the Adobe website.

Register Today for the 2010 SDMS Annual Conference!

Don’t miss the sonography event of the year. It’s not too late to join us in Denver October 14-17, 2010! Save $100 off late registration / on-site registration prices by registering on or before September 10, 2010! Go to http://www.sdms.org/meetings to register or for more information.

To reserve your room at the Hyatt Regency Denver, visit https://resweb.passkey.com/go/sdms2010 or call 888-421-1442. Make sure to indicate you are with the SDMS Conference. In order to receive the discounted $189 room rate, you must reserve your room by September 4, 2010!

Participate in live presentations or watch the recordings at your convenience. Then take the test for instant CME credit, absolutely free for SDMS members.

The SDMS Webinar Series is a series of live or recorded CME presentations delivered via the Internet to SDMS members conveniently to their home or work computer. Using your computer and a phone, you have access to exciting information presented by world-class sonographers. The SDMS Webinar Series is available FREE to current SDMS members.

Even you are unable to participate in these live webinars, you can still view a recording of the webinar.

SDMS Sonography Puzzles

SDMS Sonography Puzzles are a series of online crossword and word search puzzles that sonography educators can incorporate into their educational programs or can be used by students and sonographers just for fun. The puzzles are interactive and a fun way to learn sonography-related terminology.

The newest puzzle is titled Sonography Principles and Instrumentation

Call for Puzzles!
You can help by becoming a contributor to SDMS Sonography Puzzles. Submit your word lists (or make it a project for your students or co-workers to submit) and SDMS will convert each word list into both a crossword and a word search puzzle.

The News & Notes column includes links to web-based news articles of interest to sonographers. The articles do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of the SDMS. To submit articles, send the URL to webmaster@sdms.org.

• Suspected Carotid Artery Stenosis: Cost-effectiveness of CT Angiography in Work-up of Patients with Recent TIA or Minor Ischemic Stroke
  http://radiology.rsna.org/content/256/2/585.full



• Researchers Create Nanoscale Particles For Ultrasound Applications
  http://www.dailytech.com/Researchers+Create+Nanoscale+Particles+For+Ultrasound+ Applications/article19359.htm



• Ultrasound hurt by global recession, but Asia softens blow
  http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/news/display/article/113619/1633024



• Transesophageal Endoscopic Ultrasound-guided Fine-needle Aspiration for the Mediastinal Staging of Extrathoracic Tumors: A New Perspective
  http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/726664