The FDA has authorized, with special controls, the first direct-to-consumer (DTC) test to report specific BRCA1/BRCA2 breast cancer gene mutations. The authorization means 23andMe, the personal genetics company, can now provide its customers with information on three variants found in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes associated with a higher risk of breast, ovarian and prostate cancer. No prescription is required.

In 2017, Anthem implemented a new policy that requires outpatient MR and CT scans not considered medically necessary to be completed at a freestanding imaging facility to receive coverage. This went into effect in several states, sparking its fair share of controversy along the way, and a team of Boston-based researchers wanted to know how such a policy could impact patient care in Massachusetts.

At the 2018 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, Siemens Healthineers showcases new additions and updates to its Digital Ecosystem,1 an open and secured environment for healthcare stakeholders that houses a range of digital offerings from Siemens Healthineers and other partners based on shared healthcare data.

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.