Liberals and conservatives use different parts of the brain when assessing risks, and activity in these regions can be used to predict political party identification, according to a study published Feb. 13 in PLOS ONE.

If underperforming physicians received interventions to boost performance on newly developed criteria for diagnostic mammography, the result would be an increase in cancer diagnosis and a reduction of false-positives, according to an article published online Jan. 7 in Radiology.

As the U.S. tries to tame burgeoning Medicare costs, researchers are attempting to determine the costs and benefits of healthcare services delivered to older Americans. One current flash point is screening mammography.

The number of cores taken at initial biopsy in patients diagnosed with a single microfocus of prostate cancer is an independent predictor of having pathologically confirmed insignificant prostate cancer, according to a study published in the March issue of the Journal of Urology.

Hybrid PET/MR has demonstrated its potential in cardiac imaging thanks to its superior tissue contrast and ability to deliver multimodal quantitative imaging parameters; however, technical and financial hurdles remain, according to a review article published in the March issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

PinnacleHealth installed the Vantage Titan 3T from Toshiba America Medical Systems.

Vanderbilt University has partnered with GE Global Research to secure a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant help define how colon tumors form and develop at the cellular level.

Lung cancer death rates are rising among European women, and the disease is likely to overtake breast cancer as the main cause of cancer death for women in Europe, according to research published Feb. 13 in Annals of Oncology.