Researchers in Boston are set to co-lead a long-term study on the aging brain and factors that make individuals more vulnerable to neural injury and cognitive decline.
A special report is raising new concerns about a hospital’s lackluster response to a radiologist's concerns of abuse happening in the organization's NICU.
False-positive breast biopsies cost the U.S. healthcare system approximately $2.18 billion each year, according to a study published in ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research.
When it comes to transgender patients, radiologists can be confused due to unfamiliarity with specific preferences or needs, a pair of researchers with the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Canada said this month in Radiography. Taking those patients’ unique considerations to heart and educating radiology staff about transgender realities can make a big difference in how the population receives medical care.
Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A announced Thursday, May 31, it will be showcasing the its endoscopic imaging solutions, including the company’s new 700 Series Endoscopes, at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2018 June 2-5 in Washington, D.C.
Health Imaging spoke with Anjali Malik, MD, a breast radiologist from Washington Radiology in the Washington, D.C. metro area about how the ACS's updated colon cancer screening guideline will impact diagnostic imaging and patient care.
Though designed to reduce radiation exposure during CT perfusion, orbit shields can cause more harm than good to neuroradiology patients, Swiss researchers reported this week. The shields, meant to be preventive, could be rendering whole brain scans diagnostically useless.
When CT is utilized to image a trauma patient, two subspecialty radiologists—neuroradiologists and body radiologists—often interpret the patient’s thoracic and lumbar spine. The two subspecialists don’t always agree on the presence of an unequivocal acute fracture.
A referring physician orders an MRI of the lumbar spine and hits send. That order lands at three, sometimes four, outpatient imaging centers simultaneously. The center that contacts the patient first books the appointment. The rest miss out on the revenue.
