A study published online March 2 in Academic Radiology suggests that dental disease is commonly overlooked in routine CT exams, despite having the option to mark the presence of the disease on a dictation template. 

Dasher Heart Center at South Georgia Medical Center (SGMC) in Valdosta opened a new state-of-the-art operating room combining top surgical care with advanced medical imaging, the Valdosta Daily Times reports.

RADPAC, the political action committee of the American College of Radiology Association, will support two radiologists’ first-time bids to win seats in the U.S. House in the 2018 election.

As email, text alerts and other modern forms of communication become the norm, radiology departments cite phone calls as a frequent source of interruptions in radiology reporting rooms. Recent research published in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology provided five recommendations to educate referrers on how to eliminate unnecessary phone calls to radiology departments.

In 2017, Anthem implemented a new policy that requires outpatient MR and CT scans not considered medically necessary to be completed at a freestanding imaging facility to receive coverage. This went into effect in several states, sparking its fair share of controversy along the way, and a team of Boston-based researchers wanted to know how such a policy could impact patient care in Massachusetts.

A donation from Adele Ringling, an heir to the Ringling Bros. Circus, helped create St. Clare Hospital in Baraboo, Wisconsin. The hospital is now paying homage with a new digital radiographic portable x-ray machine decorated to resemble a giraffe, Baraboo News Republic reports.

New retrospective research published online March 1 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology shows that increased wait days to undergo MRI exams lead to minorities and patients of lower socioeconomic status missing more imaging appointments.  

Traditional colonoscopy is considered standard in screening for colorectal cancer (CRC), but CT colonography offers an alternative that can be more patient friendly. A team of Dutch scientists set out to determine which method is more cost effective according to a new study published online Feb. 27 in Radiology.