The rate is declining but not fast enough
Inappropriate prostate cancer imaging rates rose with inappropriate breast cancer imaging rates
Treatment options used to diagnosis the five million patients annually who suffer chest pain should be reconsidered, according to study
Premera Blue Cross of the Pacific Northwest discovered their breach on the exact same day as Anthem
A recent survey of execs at used medical equipment brokers, service companies and resellers has found that sentiment for 2015 is up from 2014
May solve the issue that costs $11 billion annually
PET/CT cardiac imaging scanners offer significantly improved diagnostic outcomes with lower radiation doses than the more common SPECT technology, according to a new study
Even without directly thinking of their partner, resting-state fMRI shows lovers' brains work differently
Core objectives include keeping equipment in optimal condition and training engineers.
Four big companies announce FDA approvals
FDA schedules panel to discuss recent superbug duodenoscope cases
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services is set to ratchet up accountability for hospitals
Could lead to genetic screenings to identify humans who should not be imaged with radiation
The Figure 1 app serves a community of over 150,000 users
Patients will no longer wait months to learn treatment effectiveness
It could save the industry $30 billion each year
Under half of patients who received angiograms had obstructive CAD
The variation between U.S. hospitals for survival from four high-risk procedures could make it a life-or-death choice for a patient, according to a new report
Installation is complete at Trento Proton Therapy Center in Italy
Medicare homes in on health reform ideals with Next Generation Model ACOs
Two new national proton therapy centers in England will be equipped with the Varian ProBeam proton therapy system
My one day in Vienna — 14.260 Steps / 10.69 km — 10 scheduled meetings (of which 3 did not happen, because we could not find each other), and many informal, unscheduled ones — enclosed, my impressions of the 2015 show
The focus is on higher integration and pilot project commercialization
Researchers at UCLA find a 400 percent variation in treatments costs for benign prostatic hyperplasia
CEOs must now be strong managers and visionaries
A new WHO guideline urges adults and children to cut daily intake of free sugars by roughly half
ResearchKit gives researchers access to more diverse patient data
Two patients with chronic kidney and heart failure were successfully transitioned to combined heart-kidney transplantation
Pesticides are among main offenders
Swift and coordinated emergency response limited the disaster's impact
Google adds new data to medical query search results
Submissions to the ESR journal European Radiology were up 16 percent for a total of 2,100, of which 20 percent are selected for publication, according to ESR reports
This month's roundup of the latest industry products.
Read this before getting your next chest CT exam with intravenous iodinated contrast
The Supreme Court case that could topple Obamacare
Dr. Anne Osborn, the Nikola Tesla honorary lecturer at the European Society of Radiology Annual Congress, spoke with DOTmed about the latest in radiogenomics
Today’s Honorary Lecture: Dr. John A. Brink, Radiologist-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital and Juan M. Taveras, Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School
InCise multileaf collimator cuts treatment time in half
The 2015 European Congress of Radiology Annual Conference began March 4, with more than 20,000 attending.
