ROSSLYN, VA—Luiza Kowalczyk, senior manager at the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA), a division of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), has been selected to attend the 2017 International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Young Professionals program, which will take place in Vladivostok, Russia, this October in conjunction with the 81st IEC General Meeting.

Thanks largely to advances in neuro MRI, cerebral palsy—the most common motor disability in children—can now be diagnosed before babies are even 6 months old (in adjusted age, meaning going by due date rather than delivery date). The stepped-up diagnostic capabilities are key, as early detection is critical to optimizing effective intervention, the authors of a new review of the literature emphasize.

Teenagers and young adults who indulge in binge drinking put their brains at risk of thinning in the cortical and subcortical structures that process memory, attention, language, awareness and consciousness. Such thinning may also contribute to heightened susceptibility to later alcohol dependence.

Cooling the brain soon after an athlete takes a blow to the head may reduce the symptoms and extent of concussive brain injury, according to an MRI-based pilot study conducted at Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Sport Concussion and published online July 15 in Brain Imaging and Behavior.

A retrospective study of 127 colon cancer cases preceded by conventional abdominal CT has found radiologists missed the cancers a fifth of the time.

Ultrasound has outperformed MRI in a small Chinese study focused on muscle hernias, prompting the authors to recommend sonography as the first-line imaging modality for diagnosing these not-uncommon sports injuries.

Cyberattackers seeking ransom from a nonprofit hospital in West Virginia won’t be getting any money, but the hospital will have to work with paper and pens until it can build an entirely new computer network.

After developing and implementing a tiered MRI prioritization system based on patient severity, the emergency department at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Massachusetts successfully cut its overall average order-to-imaging start times from 4.1 hours to 2.7 hours.