Clinical Research

Healthcare consumers are coming up to speed on IR, albeit too slowly for some insiders

In the years since the turn of the century, interventional radiology has made quantifiable strides toward familiarizing the general public with the specialty and, along the way, helping IR better compete for business with surgery.

Appearances can be deceiving on chest CT performed for COVID in cancer patients

In a study of more than 250 COVID-positive patients with a history of any cancer, fewer than half the cohort had chest CT findings deemed typical for COVID-related pneumonia based on an RSNA classification guide. 

Global survey finds radiology social-media users like YouTube best

Instagram is a fairly close second, Facebook a fighting third, Twitter a respectable fourth and LinkedIn a visible fifth.

COVID in pregnant women manifests by variant in developing offspring: MRI study

Prenatal MRI is adept at revealing potentially damaging placental lesions affecting fetuses whose mothers were infected with COVID-19 while carrying.

AI helps reading-room radiologists differentiate colon cancer from diverticulitis

The model augmented and significantly improved diagnostic performance for abdominal subspecialists as well as residents—a result researchers say has major clinical implications.

Comprehensive 1-stop screening proves ‘efficient and valuable’ for identifying early-stage cancers

A multidisciplinary center dedicated to early detection of cancer in ostensibly healthy individuals has demonstrated the soundness of its founding concept, cost-effectively catching cancers of many kinds before the onset of symptoms.

Prestigious medical schools hide vital information from radiology residency programs

Would residency directors do better to favor high-achieving students from schools of more modest national status?

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High hopes still afloat as promising Alzheimer’s drug loses bid for accelerated approval

The FDA has declined to accelerate approval of Eli Lilly’s highly anticipated Alzheimer’s drug, but the reason for the rejection may presage a forthcoming thumbs-up.

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After reviewing years of data from its clinic, one institution discovered that issues with implant data integrity frequently put patients at risk. 

Prior to the final proposal’s release, the American College of Radiology reached out to CMS to offer its recommendations on payment rates for five out of the six the new codes.

“Before these CPT codes there was no real acknowledgment of the additional burden borne by the providers who accepted these patients."

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