imagingBiz | For the fourth year of in a row, AHRA: The Association for Medical Imaging Management and Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc., are offering grants to fund programs, training or seminars aimed at improving patient care and safety in CT, MR, Ultrasound, X-ray and...
AuntMinnie | For patients with delayed allergic reactions to iodinated contrast media (ICM), skin tests may help in selecting an alternative agent, French researchers suggest. As many as 3% of more than 70 million patients who are exposed to ICM annually have delayed hypersensitivity reactions, including...
AuntMinnie | The screening mammography debate has come to the September issue of Radiology through a pair of articles from the most vociferous advocates on either side: One group is led by Dr. Daniel Kopans of Massachusetts General Hospital and the other by Drs. Peter...
ImagingEconomics | Incidental findings can lead to unnecessary testing, expense, and malpractice suits. Radiologists inevitably worry about missing something, but an equally vexing part of the job is seeing too much. Looking for one thing and finding another—the so-called "incidentaloma"—has long been a familiar conundrum...
AuntMinnie | Canadian researchers have found that PET scans with the radiopharmaceutical rubidium-82 can predict major adverse cardiac events independent of other parameters, according to results published online August 9 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The study, from the University of Ottawa...