At an April 30 meeting, Ella Kazerooni, MD, chair of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Committee on Lung Cancer Screening, will urge the 2014 Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MedCAC), to recommend national Medicare coverage of low-dose computed tomography screening for patients at high risk for lung cancer.

The ability to measure a tumor’s oxygen levels could help guide treatment decisions, and now, for the first time, a method to reliably and noninvasively take such measurements could soon be available.

Governor Jan Brewer has signed Arizona’s breast density notification bill, marking the 15th state to enact such a law.

The effects of tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors, two antihormonal medications, differ on benign parenchymal enhancement in breast MRI, according to a study published in the April issue of Radiology.

Those who have more years of education could recover better from a traumatic brain injury (TBI), according to a study published online April 23 by Neurology.

Adding bilateral oblique rib radiographs to the skeletal survey for child abuse results in increased rib fracture detection and increased reader confidence, according to a study published in the April issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology. 

False-positive mammograms are associated with increased short-term anxiety and an increased patient intention to undergo further breast cancer screening, according to a study published online April 21 by JAMA Internal Medicine. 

The next generation of intraoperative imaging for clear-cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) may incorporate near-infrared (NIR) dyed antibodies that track down a tumor biomarker, according to a study published online April 21 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.