June's most popular stories highlighted the importance of the radiologist's role in healthcare and, in one case, on the shoreline when a radiologist jumped into action to help save a shark attack victim's life. Off the beach, interventional radiologists were in the spotlight after 'groundbreaking' trial results promised to increase the role of IR in cancer care. Elsewhere, struggles with recruiting interventional specialists caused one hospital to drastically scale back their IR services.

Between these stories and the numerous discussions at SIIM 2024, it should be abundantly clear that radiologists' jobs are secure, as the prophecy that AI would replace them has not played out. Maybe the date was changed...again.

As always, thank you for reading. -Hannah Murphy, Editor

Radiologists within the hospital's larger network will fill in while an investigation into the reported errors is conducted.

The results were so conclusive that the trial was halted at halftime for having met predefined stopping rules. 

A radiologist was among the numerous good Samaritans who helped prevent the terrifying incident along 30A beach in Florida last weekend from turning deadly.

The state’s fourth largest hospital will no longer provide around the clock IR coverage—something physicians at the facility fear will affect patient care. 

It also increases cancer detection rates and reduces false positives, according to new work published in the journal Radiology. 

Researchers involved in the work are hopeful their findings will help patients find relief sooner.

MR imaging could provide insight into how Parkinson’s disease will progress years before its related symptoms become debilitating.