Patients who have marked lateral hip pain within 30 seconds of performing a single-leg stand on the affected side are highly likely to have gluteal tendinopathy (GT), a painful but largely self-treatable overuse condition, according to a small study published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. 

Women looking for clarity on when to begin screening mammograms, and how often to get them thereafter, often find the guidance offered online in lay language just as baffling as the conflicting advice emanating from the relevant medical societies, associations and task forces that have official opinions on the matter. 

A Florida man who needed a CT scan after taking a spill spilled the beans to a local TV station after he saw the bill. The outstanding sum was close to $18,000.

In order for shared decision-making to illuminate clinical pathways for patients getting screened for lung cancer, healthcare providers need to take a systematic approach to understanding and addressing patients’ concerns about a common source of consternation: uncertainty.

MRI-guided prostate interventions appear to have a bright future combining with the latest and greatest radiation therapy techniques to make prostatectomy and no therapy at all the least attractive options for most men with low-to-intermediate-grade prostate cancer. 

Physicists at the University of Virginia have developed a new imaging method that combines aspects of both MRI and gamma-ray imaging, a modality that has the potential to create new types of high-resolution medical diagnostics, reported Phys.org.

Breast density reporting laws now exist in 28 states, but do women in those states know what, exactly, it means if an exam reveals they have dense breasts? According to a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, a majority of women in states with such laws do not know specific details about breast density and what it can mean for a woman’s health if she has dense breasts. 

Donated medical equipment fills many a junk room in the hospitals of developing regions around the world. Much of it is useless due to lack of staff training. Some of it is down for maintenance or repairs that nobody nearby knows how to perform.