The UK's Home Secretary recently proposed the use of X-ray, CT and/or MRI for age checks to determine which migrants are, in fact, children and which ones might be posing as children in an attempt to remain in the country.

A new study reports that nearly 80% of radiologists experience some sort of musculoskeletal pain while working. 

Cancer patients who are offered free hospital-provided rideshare services are more likely to comply with radiation therapy recommendations. 

The NRC noted that advancements in nuclear medicine and increased use of radiopharmaceuticals prompted the commission to reconsider the exclusion of extravasation from medical event reporting.  

Out of 10 mock exams, the AI candidate passed two, achieving an overall accuracy of 79.5%, suggesting that the candidate is not quite “ready to graduate.” 

Mahadevappa Mahesh, PhD, professor of radiology and a medical physicist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, explains a new ACR effort to ensure that lower radiation dose X-ray images under Image Wisely and As Low as Reasonable Achievable (ALARA) meet diagnostic reading standards.

Described as “disastrous” and “ominous,” the proposed cuts have been subject to rampant industry-wide backlash, with some cautioning that, if enacted, the reductions could cause “immediate financial instability” in the Medicare physician payment system. 

These errors are frequently due to a breakdown in communication between radiologists, technologists and referring providers, either before or during exams, according to a new analysis of more nearly 63,000 musculoskeletal MRI exams.