The NFL’s chief medical officer, Allen Sills, MD, said this week that he sees the league’s rising concussion numbers as a “a call to action.”

Nearly half of breast cancer patients are wary of undergoing radiation therapy. But, after the fact, a majority of women report their experiences were better than expected, according to a study published ahead of print in Cancer.

Concerns over radioisotope administration have kept some facilities from using radioactive seed placement for the preoperative localization of nonpalpable breast lesions. So does that mean they’re forced to stick with wire placement? 

Major depressive disorder has always been a persistent, all-consuming disease, but imaging research out of Canada suggests the illness could also be neurodegenerative, worsening steadily as patients get older, according to a study published in The Lancet Psychiatry this week.

In a reality consumed by filters and hashtags, radiologists are faced with a familiar stressor in addition to their daily duties: social media. While clinicians’ schedules are typically packed, one radiologist at Cincinnati Children’s Memorial Hospital thinks an extra couple hours could be well worth the payoff.

Patients in communities across the United States will reap the benefits of 3D mammography with new installations.

German researchers have developed a streamlined approach to histological examination using nano-scale computed tomography, according to a report published in the current issue of PNAS.

As the United States works to solve its ongoing opioid epidemic, medical specialties are beginning to examine their own behaviors to see who is, and is not, prescribing opioids. For example, a team of researchers used public Medicare data to study the number of opioids prescribed in 2015 by more than 2,000 radiologists from practices predominantly focused on interventional radiology.