Diagnostic screening programs help catch cancer, abnormalities or other diseases before they reach an advanced stage, saving lives and healthcare costs. Screening programs include, lung, breast, prostate, and cervical cancer, among many others.
Breast density is most often discussed within the context of cancer risk, but new research suggests that it also could be used as a marker of cardiometabolic health.
The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer.
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has tapped Benjamin Strong, MD, chief medical officer of the teleradiology practice vRad, to serve on an emergency-radiology committee and to share his emergency expertise in an ongoing educational program.
A few days ago a physician who is not a radiologist took to the online pages of Physician’s Money Digest to give five reasons why radiologists are indeed “real doctors.” (HealthImaging picked it up.) It didn’t take long for a physician—a radiology resident, no less—to come back with a counterargument.
A new article by Dataconomy, a data technology news site, discusses how an app could help people avoid the health risks associated with radiation exposure when undergoing imaging tests.
While it’s not a part of established diagnostic criteria, the use of MRI in the emergency department to evaluate multiple sclerosis (MS) patients for possible exacerbations pays good diagnostic and care-management dividends, according to study conducted at Johns Hopkins and published online Oct. 6 in the American Journal of Neuroradiology.
It’s the maddening malady you’ve never heard of unless you hear it inside your head every day and nobody else can hear it yet it’s so loud to you that you can actually record it. Seriously.
Work is underway to come up with an imaging-based “mammogram for the pancreas” at Baylor Scott & White Health, the largest not-for-profit hospital system in the Lone Star State.
Patients who have marked lateral hip pain within 30 seconds of performing a single-leg stand on the affected side are highly likely to have gluteal tendinopathy (GT), a painful but largely self-treatable overuse condition, according to a small study published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
In order for shared decision-making to illuminate clinical pathways for patients getting screened for lung cancer, healthcare providers need to take a systematic approach to understanding and addressing patients’ concerns about a common source of consternation: uncertainty.
The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.
CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.
