Metastatic breast cancer is progressive and incurable, but twice as many women today are hitting the benchmark five-year survival rate as were in the early 1990s.

A diverse mix of trainees and physicians demonstrated moderate interobserver agreement when sorting prostate cancer cases into categories laid out by the Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS), demonstrating resiliency to varying levels of education attained by users. However, a persistently "OK" agreement rate may indicate systemic problems with PI-RADS.

Is it safe to dive headfirst into the roiling, gadolinium-spiked waters of MR imaging? At the moment, it would seem so. 

Lidocaine buffered with sodium bicarbonate is significantly more comfortable than plain lidocaine when administered for pain control to women undergoing ultrasound-guided core-needle breast biopsies. 

It's pretty simple: if a hospital doesn't have enough people in the area it serves, it closes down. While the population flight from rural areas has stabilized from its 2008 peak, those residents likely aren't coming back soon—meaning hospitals must retain the patients they serve. 

Shortly before her 40th birthday, a woman visits her primary care physician and is advised she should schedule her first mammogram. The patient is puzzled and says she “read somewhere” that she can wait a few years. The physician has heard this before and kindly convinces the patient to comply with the recommendation. She agrees, schedules the mammogram and receives her results before even leaving the imaging facility. 

Aetna is now offering CT colonography without patient copay, part of the provision for low-cost preventative screening in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Aetna was the last of the top five insurers in the U.S. to comply with the mandate, according to the American College of Radiology.

Melanie Robbins recently won an $8 million medical malpractice lawsuit against a radiology group after a misdiagnosed blood vessel burst in her brain, which in turn left her paralyzed with brain damage.