To help combat the recent resurgence of black lung disease in U.S. coal miners, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, recently introduced bipartisan legislation to increase participation in federal programs that treat or detect the disease through lung cancer screening, including lung CT scans.

The embattled Canberra Hospital in Australia is facing more scrutiny for being forced to send all inpatient CT scans to external providers last week due to unplanned leaves, the Canberra Times reported.

Nupur Verma, MD, with the radiology department at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and two colleagues explored how a radiologist can become more persuasive in an Aug. 23 commentary in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Researchers from Duke University have created a handheld probe capable of capturing images of photoreceptors in the eyes of infants—potentially aiding early diagnoses of brain-related diseases and trauma.

Using MRI technology, researchers found that individuals who have a weaker connection between two regions of the brain are more likely to procrastinate, according to an article published Aug. 23 by Newsweek.

For patients with breast cancer, out-of-pocket costs can carry a heavy burden. According to a recent Journal of Supportive Care and Cancer study, those costs can last years after diagnosis—climbing higher for those with lymphedema.

Dicom Systems has recently de-identified 5.3 million radiology exams and other medical imaging data for the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. The effort demonstrates Dicom’s support towards artificial intelligence (AI) research and innovation in healthcare, according to a recent Dicom release.

A $3 million partnership between the American College of Radiology’s Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute and the Georgia Institute of Technology will establish a data analytics lab that will examine how policy impacts medical imaging, the Gwinnett Daily Post reported.

Researchers have found young adults' lifestyle choices can increase their risk of stroke and dementia later in life, even with good cardiovascular health and without evidence of cerebrovascular disease, according to an Aug. 21 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Using patient-specific body weight-based protocols during whole-body fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) PET/CT can greatly reduce radiation dosage while maintaining image quality, according to authors of an Academic Radiology study.