Last May, three female students in an ultrasound technologist program sued Valencia College in Orlando, Fla., alleging two professors pressured them to undergo vaginal exams to learn a procedure from the patient’s eye view. A federal judge has now thrown out the suit.

Wrong-patient and wrong-study events in radiology can be reduced by implementing a two-person verification system, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

“Stop taking away my Constitutional rights you facist [sic] insurance companies. I want my MRI!” A sign spotted in a protest march? No—a tweet documented in a medical study.

The head count of radiology trainees in the U.S. blossomed 84.2 percent between 1997 and 2011, but the workforce expansion isn’t as heartening for the specialty as it initially sounds.

The newly renovated pediatric imaging suite at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia held its official ribbon cutting ceremony, and a young patient got to do the honors.

Should 20- to 29-pack-year smokers be screened for lung cancer via low-dose CT just like those with 30-plus pack-years? 

If pediatric patients are to understand imaging exams as positive experiences—or at least minimally negative ones—radiologists and their departmental team members need to see things from a kid’s eye view. 

If you were planning a new MRI facility, how long would you budget for the installation? One would assume more than a week. However, that kind of speedy installation is what one Pennsylvania company says it can offer.