AuntMinnie | Concern about radiation dose from medical imaging exams makes it imperative that radiologists proactively find ways to keep dose exposure to a minimum -- and healthcare IT can help, according to Dr. James H. Thrall, who spoke on the topic this week at...
AuntMinnie | How promptly a facility follows up with women who have received an abnormal mammogram is crucial to a screening mammography program's success, according to a new study published online in Radiology. Time to follow-up varies widely between facilities -- indicating there is definitely...
DiagnosticImaging | Johns Hopkins researchers reviewing a decade of patient records of those who underwent spinal angiography found the procedure to be safe and effective, they reported online this week in the journal Neurology. The procedure, an X-ray of the blood vessels near the spinal cord,...
DiagnosticImaging | Blood flow abnormalities in the brains of veterans with Gulf War illness have persisted 20 years and in some cases have gotten worse, according to a new arterial spin labeled (ASL) MRI study published online in the journal Radiology. Gulf War illness is a...
AuntMinnie | In a study being touted as the first to use noninvasive imaging to test the efficacy of an atherosclerosis drug, researchers from Mount Sinai Medical Center and 10 other centers found that a drug called dalcetrapib reduced arterial inflammation and disease progression at...