imagingBiz | The cost of defensive medicine ranges from 26% to 34% percent of total annual health care costs, according to a report by Jackson Healthcare, a health care solutions company. Annual spending on medical orders intended to avoid lawsuits, rather than to treat patients,...
AuntMinnie | Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) provides good local control and overall survival in patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to a report from Japan. The authors consider SBRT a good alternative to surgery for these patients. The lead author, Dr....
<strong>AuntMinnie | </strong>Asymptomatic adults with a low Framingham risk score (FRS) and nonsignificant coronary artery disease still face a higher risk of death and adverse events if mild coronary artery plaque is present at coronary CT angiography (CCTA), according to a study from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los...
DiagnosticImaging | About a decade ago, I was covering a typical callshift at a level-1 trauma center. One of the requisitions for imaging caught my eye. Hastily scrawled in the space for a clinical history was the unilluminating statement: “Patient needs CT.” Although a number of...
imagingBiz | It’s a good thing patients in MRI scanners are lying down, it turns out. The authors of a study published online Thursday, in Current Biology, have sorted out the root of reported dizziness and vertigo reported by patients undergoing magnetic resonance imaging. MRI systems affect...