Work is underway to come up with an imaging-based “mammogram for the pancreas” at Baylor Scott & White Health, the largest not-for-profit hospital system in the Lone Star State.  

Patients who have marked lateral hip pain within 30 seconds of performing a single-leg stand on the affected side are highly likely to have gluteal tendinopathy (GT), a painful but largely self-treatable overuse condition, according to a small study published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. 

In order for shared decision-making to illuminate clinical pathways for patients getting screened for lung cancer, healthcare providers need to take a systematic approach to understanding and addressing patients’ concerns about a common source of consternation: uncertainty.

Donated medical equipment fills many a junk room in the hospitals of developing regions around the world. Much of it is useless due to lack of staff training. Some of it is down for maintenance or repairs that nobody nearby knows how to perform. 

Tiny, peculiar and creepy but in a cuddly sort of way, eight-legged tardigrades—also known as “water bears”—may help advance radiation safety in medical imaging. 

A study drawing on data from nearly 100,000 patient visits has shown that team training of MRI technologists in patient-calming techniques can boost rates of patient show-ups as well as study completions.

Autism symptoms in children could be exacerbated if their mothers undergo fetal ultrasounds early in pregnancy, according to a new study published in Autism Research. And now, the Wall Street Journal reported, doctors are looking for a way to cut back on first-trimester fetal ultrasounds without scaring away women who might need the procedure, while definitive proof of autism-related effects remains elusive. 

Engineers at Duke University have combined light-based holographic imaging with deep-learning algorithms to come up with a no-pathologist-needed way to identify blood cells infected with malaria.