From hospital-system sprawl to e-health screen staring, today’s modes of healthcare delivery often end up keeping radiology-department members and stakeholders from collaborating with one another in person. At Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, the imaging department is defying these currents. 

A new cancer-fighting drug meant to help treat leukemia and solid tumors was approved by the European Union. 

The overuse of imaging and its potential harms in pediatric settings—especially exposure of children to ionizing radiation from CT scans—is so pressing an issue that it must be addressed urgently and systematically, according to the authors of a Viewpoint article published online in JAMA Pediatrics.

Scoring-based peer assessments of radiologists’ clinical performance should be phased out and replaced by a system of “peer learning.” For, if properly implemented, the latter approach would go beyond catching image-interpretation errors—and singling out those prone to making them—to incorporating peer feedback, encouraging shared learning and facilitating profession-wide improvement. 

A state senator in Colorado has taken to the online pages of a local news outlet to tell voters what she’s planning to focus on for the 2017 legislative session. It turns out healthcare is on her mind and medical imaging is in her sights. 

Earlier this week the NBC affiliate in Green Bay chose to tell its viewers about what it is that radiologists do, airing a segment with a local rad who gives a two-minute rundown.

Physical and emotional challenges separate many obese people from numerous healthcare access points—and imaging is a common area of struggle.

If the curricula effectively incorporate hands-on experience with quality instruction and team integration, radiology subinternships can be an effective means of prompting medical students to choose radiology for their final-year clinical elective.