Senator Barbara Mikulski, D-MD, responded to the latest United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) draft breast screening recommendations by sending a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, calling for the continued availability of free annual mammograms for women ages 40 and older.

The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) announced its newest draft breast cancer screening recommendations Monday, once again sparking controversy by recommending biennial mammograms for women ages 50 to 74 and giving them a “B” grade.

An exhibit about radiology during the Nazi regime opened at the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel, in advance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 16; two radiologists offered their unique perspectives on this dark chapter in scientific history.

For vendor-neutral archive technology, a funny thing happened on the way to HIMSS15. Over the past couple of years, healthcare providers have recognized en masse that simply setting up a VNA to store all manner of patient-associated content is just dipping a toe in the VNA water. 

A new study from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, demonstrated that a noninvasive screening protocol of MRI alone in individuals at high risk of pancreatic cancer resulted in a lesion yield of 40% in the screened patients.

The Food and Drug Administration has issued two separate Class 2 recalls involving Siemens and GE MRI systems.

At a time when 85% of physicians are viewing diagnostic images via electronic medical records, the opportunity is ripe to realize true enterprise imaging. More of those docs should be saying goodbye to walled-off image silos and hello to a centralized, always-open image depot. 

A new magnetic resonance imaging technique could potentially make biopsies obsolete by noninvasively detecting sugar molecules that are shed by the outer membranes of cancerous cells.