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.

Ultrasound is not up to the job of identifying normal parathyroid glands, according to a study conducted at Inje University in South Korea and published July 15 in La Radiologia Medica, the official journal of the Italian Society of Medical Radiology.

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.

President John F. Kennedy was only 46 when he died in Dallas on November 22, 1963, yet he’d already undergone numerous operations and nonsurgical interventions for his debilitating back pain. Had he lived in our time, he likely would have had multiple low-back advanced-imaging exams too—probably more exercises in futility, given the extent of the damage.

The U.S. Preventive Service Task Force’s 2009 screening-mammography recommendation—every other year for average-risk women aged 50 to 74—opened the floodgates of the “when to start/how often to repeat” controversy that’s been percolating ever since. A study published online in Academic Radiology shows how the disharmony has played out in online news coverage.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MEDNAX Radiology and vRad (Virtual Radiologic), a MEDNAX company, will exhibit at AHRA: The Association for Medical Imaging Management’s 45th Annual Meeting from July 10-12 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif. vRad leadership will be on-site at Booth #633.

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