Phone calls directed to radiology reporting rooms interrupt clinicians’ work more than 90 percent of the time and could be decreasing reporting accuracy in a big way, a trio of British researchers said this month in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (TI-RADS) criteria for thyroid nodule evaluation can reduce the number of nodules radiologists recommend for biopsy, according to a new study published in Radiology. The guidelines were also associated with improving the overall accuracy of radiologist recommendations for nodule management.

Pediatric intensivists (PIs) are often responsible for immediate interpretations of radiographs in the absence of board-certified radiologists—after hours or early in the morning, for example—but those physicians could be acting on interpretations a pediatric radiologist (PR) might not agree with, a team of New York researchers reported in the Journal of the American College of Radiology this month.

With an average $190,000 owed after graduate programs, early-career radiologists are often faced with six-digit debt straight out of school.

The combination of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and digital mammography (DM) can detect more breast cancers than DM alone, but researchers have also noted a variety of issues with that pairing. According to a new study published in Radiology, however, using DBT and two-dimensional synthetic mammography (SM) together detects more cancers than DM.

In 2012, a 47-year-old patient at Lancaster Regional Imaging Associates in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, went into anaphylactic shock and stopped breathing during a CT scan due to an allergic reaction to the contrast material. The radiologist revived the patient by administering three doses of epinephrine, or adrenaline, diluted with saline.

Royal Philips and Hologic have announced a new multi-year global partnership that combines Philips’ large portfolio of imaging systems and services with Hologic’s mammography technologies. Financial details have not been disclosed at this time.

The introduction of curved mammography paddles to the medical market in 2017 was explosive—the new paddles, designed to ease women’s breast pain during the exam, were soon the subject of CNBC interviews and Shape magazine articles. Manufacturers have claimed the curved paddles “deliver a more comfortable mammogram without compromising image quality, workflow or dose,” but a pair of Colorado-based clinicians are questioning that.