Advisors Find Non-Problem, Offer Non-Solution
A prestigious medical organization, asked to analyze the Food and Drug Administration’s “fast-track” approval process for medical devices, took nearly two years to conclude that: The process is...
View ArticleCardiologists’ Bodies Fight Effects Of X-Rays
We talk a lot these days about the risks of radiation exposure to patients, but what about the risks to doctors? Specifically, to interventional cardiologists who perform heart surgery using...
View ArticleMRI Can Be Safe Even With Implanted Device
MRI-safe pacemakers? As far as the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is concerned, all pacemakers are MRI-safe. OK, we’re exaggerating. But apparently not by much. Cardiologists at Johns...
View ArticleLow-Dose Radiation May Be Less Dangerous
Low doses of ionizing radiation may not carry as much cancer risk as we’ve thought, according to researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley,...
View ArticleHugely Ambitious Cancer Imaging Effort Begins
Researchers at Johns Hopkins In-Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging Center in Baltimore have begun a breathtaking five-year initiative to detect and treat breast, prostate, and other common cancers at...
View ArticleVertebroplasty Debate Cited As Cautionary Tale
The new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) will get more than $3 billion over the next decade to conduct “comparative effectiveness” research and suggest the best ways to treat...
View ArticleNew Toy: Photoacoustic Tomography’s Promise
Photoacoustic tomography potentially can catch cancer in its nascent stages, find early signs of other diseases, precisely guide sentinel node biopsies, and otherwise expand the uses of imaging—all...
View ArticleRadiologist Adds Sideline: Stem Cell Injection
Jason R. Williams, MD, a radiologist in Gulf Shores, Alabama, has developed a thriving sideline: injecting patients with their own stem cells in an attempt to repair damaged joints and muscles. Dr....
View ArticleOntario Seeks To Slash Radiologists’ Income
Ontario’s government wants to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from payments to doctors, with some specialties particularly targeted—including radiologists. Zita Astravas, spokeswoman for provincial...
View ArticleMoth Eye Design May Reduce X-Ray Dosage
To improve the quality of X-ray images while reducing the radiation dose, a team of physicists has copied the structure of the moth eye. Moths have large compound eyes consisting of thousands of...
View ArticleRadiologists Sue To Gain Hospital Privileges
A group of radiologists in Helena, Montana, is suing a hospital over the hospital’s refusal to grant privileges to practice there. The radiologists, Montana Interventional and Diagnostic Radiology...
View ArticleUltrasound Helps Drugs Get Under The Skin
Ultrasound can increase the skin’s permeability to drugs, perhaps enabling noninvasive drug delivery or needle-free vaccinations, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers. It works...
View ArticleStudy: Even Tiny Level Of Radiation Is Harmful
Any amount of radiation, no matter how small, has harmful effects on life, according to a new meta-analysis of 46 peer-reviewed studies published over 40 years. Two researchers, one from the University...
View ArticleSettlement: Radiologists Can’t Admit Patients
In connection with a lawsuit settlement, MedStar Washington Hospital Center (WHS) in Washington, DC, has reaffirmed procedures that, among other things, ban radiologists from admitting patients to the...
View ArticleProstate Breakthrough Uses MRI, Ultrasound
MRI and ultrasound combine for what seems to be a real breakthrough in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. A UCLA team of urologists, an engineer, and a radiologist report on their new technique in an...
View ArticleWeb Site Allows Radiology Shopping, Booking
A Florida company’s price comparison/advance booking Web site for radiology services has proven popular with providers and is catching on with consumers. Does that mean my dire speculation last week...
View ArticleRadiologists’ Lawsuit Blames Cardiologists
Two radiologists have sued Bozeman Deaconess Hospital in Bozeman, Montana, claiming the hospital forced them out of a joint radiology venture. The problems started, according to the lawsuit, because...
View ArticleNew Material May Sharpen Ultrasound Images
A new “metamaterial” may make possible greatly improved ultrasound images, according to the researchers who developed it. Current ultrasound technology converts reflected ultrasound waves into...
View ArticleUniversity of Iowa Radiology Turmoil Continues
Eventually, the University of Iowa may be able to move past the turmoil that has plagued its radiology department for the past few years. But not this week. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that...
View ArticleCreators Of New Dye Offer It Free For Research
It sounds like a TV infomercial, but it’s actually a news release from the University of Copenhagen: “I know that our dye is better, but biologists and physicians don’t. Therefore, we are giving the...
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