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De’Aaron Fox, an NBA point guard who plays for the Sacramento Kings, and his mom, Lorraine Harris-Fox, are hosting an event May 12 at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California, to promote breast cancer awareness.

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These no-shows can delay diagnosis, while medical providers lose revenue and opportunities to see more patients, according to a study in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Venous opacification could be a novel biomarker for the success of intra-arterial therapy (IAT), an endovascular approach to functional recovery in stroke patients, research published in Radiology this month suggests.

Female representation on the editorial boards of prominent radiology journals has increased over the last forty years, according to a new study published in Academic Radiology. But, the authors noted, that increase still falls behind progress seen in other areas, including female first authorship in radiology journals and radiology faculty appointments.

Outsourcing

A recent Black Book Market Research survey of administrators from 709 hospitals and inpatient organizations found medical imaging among the most popular services hospitals are considering outsourcing to save money.

Contouring is an instrumental process for radiation oncologists and their patients—but the method is highly subjective. Researchers found their deep neural network algorithm could result in massive time savings for providers.

Innovation at work

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.

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