While preoperative breast MRI rarely changes prior decisions to perform mastectomy on women with biopsy-proven breast cancer, the extra imaging can reduce the odds of needing a second trip under the knife for patients undergoing breast-conserving surgery.

Screening sonography of women with dense breast tissue can find cancers that mammography misses, and the radiation-free modality is specific enough to keep unneeded biopsies in check, according to the authors of a study published online June 28 in the Journal of Ultrasound Medicine.

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.

A biomedical engineer at the University of Oxford has developed a way to finely target tumors, and only tumors, using drug-delivering microbubbles activated by ultrasound and magnetic fields. Her work has caught the eye of Wired UK.

Where women choose to go for breast imaging depends on whether they value expertise over convenience, or vice versa, as well as how much they care about care setting and how ambivalent they feel about the whole experience. Fortunately, their preferences largely track with demographic characteristics, making population-level priorities discoverable and actionable.

The American Veterinary Medical Association is checking in with the only zoo in the U.S. to employ, fulltime, a board-certified veterinary radiologist.

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.

Stamford, CT, June 28, 2017 (Booth #221) – FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc., will present its comprehensive portfolio of digital radiography and mammography solutions designed to optimize workflow and increase the safety and satisfaction of patients at the American Healthcare Radiology Administrators (AHRA) 2017 Annual Meeting.