Orangeworm, an aggressive group of hackers, is targeting medical devices of healthcare providers with a new malware. The malware, called Kwampirs, is a “backdoor Trojan that provides the attackers with remote access to the compromised computer,” the cybersecurity firm Symantec reported this week.

The average annual salary for radiologists is $401,000 per year, according to Medscape’s Physician Compensation Report 2018. But how does that compare to other specialties?

False-positive results from a breast or prostate cancer exam could be driving affected men and women to adhere to clinical testing guidelines, researchers wrote in a Cancer study—though a handful of false-positive patients are actually deterred from future screenings.

Integration of PACS with an electronic medical record (EMR) is associated with saving radiologists time and helping them access the EMR more frequently, according to a new study in the Journal of Digital Imaging.

Physicians regularly turn to CT to evaluate patients who arrive at a hospital emergency department (ED) due to acute appendicitis. According to a new study published in Radiology, the diagnostic accuracy of MR imaging compares favorably to that of CT when diagnosing acute appendicitis, meaning patients can receive the same level of care without the ionizing radiation exposure.

Navigation programs aimed at breast and colorectal cancer patients could provide an enduring link to the healthcare system while boosting screening rates—but the added expenses of such a program mean clinicians will likely need to gear that care toward a select few, research published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology suggests.

As their duties are seemingly always piled sky-high, radiologists often wonder which aspects of their job they can trust to automated technology. Selecting protocols for standard CT and MRI exams could be one of them, a group of Detroit researchers reported this month in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

Radiation segmentectomy (RS) could give physicians a new tool in the fight against early-stage liver cancer, according to a new study published in Radiology. Many patients aren’t eligible for other treatment options—surgery, liver transplantation and radiofrequency ablation, for example—adding even more importance to this new research.

The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) and Rep. Mia Love of Utah announced Tuesday, April 24, that they will host an educational briefing session about the importance of interventional radiology May 2 on Capitol Hill.

Suhny Abbara, MD, a professor of radiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, has been named the editor of RSNA’s new online journal, Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging.