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.

Clinicians evaluating women with nondense breasts who are experiencing focal breast pain will find little to no value adding directed ultrasound to digital mammography when the latter is indicated due to screening scheduling. 

Clinicians treating young children for head trauma due to evident non-accidental injury can wisely and safely reduce radiation dose by ordering CT alone to check for both skull fractures and intracranial damage, according to a study published online Oct. 15 in Pediatric Radiology.

In a small yet important study at a large and influential hospital, 19 diagnostic radiologists were able to identify injuries suggestive of elder abuse. Only two of the participants had any prior training in this area, and all said they’d like to receive more.  

Whether we like it or not, the digital age is here. Smartphones are everywhere, the internet is king and social media is being used as a tool for ... well, just about everything imaginable. According to a recent study published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology, there’s a new way radiology is using the digital age to its advantage: educating patients through informative online videos. 

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.

Over the years since the advent of widespread screening mammography, overdiagnosis and overtreatment have become accepted as unfortunate but tolerable collateral troubles. There’s no shortage of literature using mathematical modeling to suggest as much. Now comes a new analysis of hard data, published Oct. 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine, to quantify the problem.