US proposes new tariffs on Chinese imports—including medical imaging equipment

The U.S. government has proposed tariffs on more than a thousand products imported from China, including medical imaging equipment.

An adaptation of digital mammography could cut image acquisition times and provide a new screening method to patients unable to undergo breast MRI, but added time commitments could make the technique difficult to implement in clinical practice, a case study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology suggests.

The most common patient complaints related to medical imaging deal with quality of care, patient safety and patient communication, according to a study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology. Most patients were satisfied with how their complaints were resolved.

Michigan State University (MSU) suspended its chair of radiology, Suresh Mukherji, MD, MBA, in February in the wake of the scandal surrounding former MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. Now, after a university review concluded Mukherji did not attempt to obstruct the Nassar investigation or violate any school policy, he has been fully reinstated.

A radiopharmaceutical tool developed by German and Swiss scientists has the potential to guide and assess treatment of neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and multiple sclerosis with PET imaging.

In December 2016, a 59-year-old patient from Middletown, California, saw doctors twice in eight days at two different hospitals for upper back pain. The day after her second visit, she died after her aorta ruptured.