Mammography screening trends had remained flat, but they fell across all age groups after the USPSTF issued new guidelines in 2009.

When rads are forced to repeat such procedures within 30 days, patients can experience increased risk of death, alongside the added burden to the health system, experts wrote in Radiology.

A cancer treatment product developed by Merit Medical Systems of South Jordan, Utah, has been designated a breakthrough device by the FDA.

Quantifiable features of medical images such as pixel intensity, arrangement, color and texture—in a word, radiomics—can help radiologists improve diagnostic accuracy.

Thoracic CT is safely and wisely omitted from diagnostic protocols for ICU patients who have signs of infection after abdominopelvic surgery but were already imaged with abdominal CT.

A structured program to track incidental findings on body CT has significantly boosted rates of clinician follow-up as well as timely patient adherence to radiologist recommendations for next exams.

In the years since the turn of the century, interventional radiology has made quantifiable strides toward familiarizing the general public with the specialty and, along the way, helping IR better compete for business with surgery.

Whether poor, wealthy or somewhere in between, women being treated for breast cancer tend to suffer significant financial setbacks.