The article Late-breaking describes the latest, most significant developments that happen just before a scheduled event where news is shared. It is also among the top 30% most looked up words in Business English.
The term breaking is often used to refer to emergency situations that require immediate attention, such as severe weather events. In North America until the 1990s, television and radio stations rarely interrupted regular programming with breaking news coverage, except in cases of urgent situations such as a tornado warning or land-falling hurricane. In that case, an alert crawl or cut-in was displayed on the screen with the news headlines, or lower thirds would be altered to imply urgency. Breaking has since become commonplace at 24-hour news networks, allowing for quick interruptions of the normal programming cycle for important stories such as the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963 or the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
MDS offers an opportunity to submit a late-breaking abstract for the purpose of recognizing novel, critically important research developments that became available after the deadline for regular abstract submission and presentation at International Congress 2025. Accepted Late-Breaking Abstracts are eligible for Oral Platform Presentations at the conference. Note: Studies such as retrospective or single center studies, practice reviews, small confirmatory studies, rating scale validation, and research proposals are not considered for this track.
Submissions of Late-Breaking Work and Demonstrations should describe innovative research ideas, early results, industry showcases or system prototypes addressing topics within the conference’s interests areas. These can be research in progress articles, preliminary data or project summaries.