A handful of undergraduate students from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore are working on a very special class project this semester: improving breast cancer treatment in South Africa.

The amount of time since a patient’s last mammogram is associated with future adherence to breast cancer screening recommendations following a false-positive finding, according to results of a new study presented today at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Researchers in the United Kingdom have launched a study that aims to scan the brains and internal organs of approximately 100,000 British patients over the next six to eight years in the largest health imaging study ever conducted.

Children with suspected pneumonia are well served when imagers choose lung ultrasound over chest x-ray for primary evaluation, as the radiation-free modality is safe, highly accurate and readily available in many emergency care settings. 

A study of 1.5 million women concluded that universal biennial mammography is more effective for detecting breast cancer early compared with population-based screening for breast cancer with annual clinical breast exam (CBE).

Follow-up visits from trained community health workers known as ‘promotoras’ have been shown to improve breast cancer screening rates among Latino women, according to results of a new study published in Cancer Epidemiology.

Hilo Women’s Imaging Center in Hawaii has begun notifying patients that mammograms taken at the facility may contain inaccuracies after the FDA retracted the center’s accreditation.

Uterine fibroid embolization (UFE), a nonsurgical, image-guided treatment of uterine fibroids may lead to improved sexual function and higher overall quality of life for female patients, according to research recently presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology's Annual Scientific Meeting in Vancouver.