According to a new study published in the journal Clinical Radiology, targeted second-look ultrasounds and ultrasound-targeted biopsies are relatively cheap and useful for young women who are at high risk of breast cancer who have already undergone MRIs. 

In a retrospective analysis of an urban emergency department that sees more than 85,000 annual visits, atraumatic headache patients who received CT scans in the ED and had negative findings were much less likely than patients who were not scanned to come back to the ED for any reason within 30 days. 

The breast health organization Are You Dense? released two new resources for Spanish-speaking women to learn about their breast health and breast cancer screening options. The organization’s partnership with Madre Latina, called EMPOWERED, encourages Hispanic women in general to be the “ambassadors of [their] own lives.” 

Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle inoculated a pregnant pigtail macaques with the Zika virus. Within 10 days, the primate’s fetus developed brain lesions similar to those observed in some human babies born to Zika-infected mothers.

Many patients who look to their local hospital’s website for educational information on screening mammography come away flummoxed by what they find, according to a study published online Sept. 9 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Katrina Pitas, vice president of business development for SHINE Medial Technologies, is in St. Louis this week to speak at the 2016 Mo-99 Topical Meeting. While preparing for her presentation, she spoke with Health Imaging about what SHINE has been up to this year and what she will be discussing at the meeting. 

Contrary to popular perception, Denver Broncos players have no less chance of getting concussions on their mile-high home field than when they play in Miami, Los Angeles or any other field that’s not at elevated altitude.

… It helps quite a lot if he or she has family, faith—and a pioneering radiosurgery/neurosurgery colleague as a close friend and confidante.