Nicole Dhanraj, PhD, chief of radiology at the Guam Memorial Hospital Authority in Tamuning, Guam recently discussed what moral injury is in radiology and how leadership and department employees can help this underrated issue, in an online session for the AHRA 2018 Virtual Fall Conference.

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth and congressional candidate Brendan Kelly joined dozens of veterans in Marion, Illinois, on Tuesday for a roundtable to discuss ongoing concerns raised by radiologists at the Marion VA Medical Center, ABC 3 reported.

Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Massachusetts announced they will give “preference” to freestanding imaging clinics over hospital-based centers through its split-level cost-sharing for x-ray and advanced imaging program, effective Jan. 1, 2019.

International interventional radiology (IR) societies committed to provide stroke training to interventional radiologists to help expand the number of those trained in endovascular stroke therapies, according to a statement published online Oct. 28 in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.

“To promote judicious use of imaging tests, initiatives to better understand patients’ experiences of these tests are vital,” wrote Monica L. Zigman Suchsland, in a new study published online Oct. 25 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Is neuroimaging being overused on seizure-related visits to the emergency department (ED)? Authors of a study published in Epilepsia believe so.

According to a recent editorial in Academic Radiology by Richard H. Cohan, MD, and Matthew S. Davenport, MD, each from the University of Michigan Hospital, in Ann Arbor the answer is yes. Declining per-case reimbursement has forced hospitals to intensify radiologist workloads to keep revenues from declining.

Chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) may have found a way to reduce the cost of x-rays and CT scans by using novel nanocrystals, according to research published in Nature.