A healthcare-software startup in Israel is reporting that it has created a constantly improving algorithm that is better at reading mammography exams “than radiologists using the best computer-aided detection methods.”

Health technology company Tempus is partnering with the University of Michigan’s cancer center to bring a new type of personalized treatment for cancer patients to the market.

Halloween might be a tad spookier for radiology departments this fall, as the supply of a commonly-used isotope may be restricted in the U.S. when a Canadian reactor ceases production on Oct. 31st. While organizations like the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee have been planning for this closing for years, it held a crucial meeting on the status of molybdenum-99 supply in late September. 

Clinical depression is persistently widespread yet notoriously individualized. It often forces patients and therapists to use an arduous trial-and-error approach in search of the right antidepressant at the right dose, if any, along with the right type of talk therapy—again, if any. 

Oftentimes when someone remarks on whether or not radiologists are “real physicians,” that someone ends up being a physician. Never mind that diagnostic radiologists can rightly claim the mantle of being the doctors’ doctor.

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.

Researchers in the U.S. and South Korea have collaborated to create and validate an evidence-based rule that can accurately predict which women with ovarian cancer are not at significant risk for metastases in the chest and abdomen—and thus not really in need of some guideline-recommended CT scans.

Mammograms are the first step when women are on the lookout for breast cancer. But for some women, especially those with dense breasts and who have a special risk according to family history, additional screening might make sense.