Reuters Health

Local treatment boosts androgen-deprivation therapy in prostate cancer

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jun 16 - For locally advanced and metastatic prostate cancer, the best timing and duration of androgen-deprivation therapy is unclear. Now, a systematic review suggests immediate and sustained treatment leads to best results, especially when combined with local treatment.

June 15, 2010

Bone metastasis, skeletal events predict poor prostate CA prognosis

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jun 11 - Among men with prostate cancer, those with bone lesions and skeletal events have the worst survival, with fewer than 1% alive at five years, a large Danish study shows.

June 10, 2010

Physicists, medical researchers to team up on cancer

GENEVA (Reuters), Jun 4 - Particle physicists and medical scientists are to combine efforts to develop early detection techniques and advanced treatments for cancer as spin-offs from research into the origins and makeup of the universe.

June 3, 2010

Hysteroscopy still beats sonography for diagnosing endometrial pathology

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jun 3 - For diagnosing endometrial pathology, hysteroscopy is, not unexpectedly, more accurate than either saline infusion sonohysterography (SIS) or transvaginal ultrasound. But there's still a place for SIS in the workup of women with an intracavitary mass, Greek researchers say.

June 2, 2010

Transcranial Doppler IDs stroke risk in asymptomatic carotid stenosis

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cerebral emboli on transcranial Doppler ultrasonography are markers of an increased risk for stroke in patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis, investigators reported in the Lancet Neurology. They also announced their findings at the European Stroke Conference in Barcelona.

May 30, 2010

Coronary CT angiography valuable in asymptomatic patients, safer than ever

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 28 - In patients with elevated cardiac risk but without cardiac symptoms, coronary CT angiography can reliably predict cardiac events and assess cardiovascular risk, German researchers reported online April 30 in the American Journal of Cardiology.

May 27, 2010

Diffusion-weighted MRI in acute stroke: Stronger is not always better

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 24 - Diffusion-weighted imaging with the newer 3.0-tesla MRI equipment may be less accurate than with the older 1.5-tesla scanners for detecting stroke lesions within the first six hours after onset, a new French study suggests.

May 23, 2010

Cystatin C better than Cr for detecting contrast-induced kidney injury

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 20 - Measurement of serum cystatin C helps diagnose early acute contrast-induced kidney injury, and it also helps predict its course, Italian researchers report. They studied 410 patients with chronic kidney disease who underwent coronary and/or peripheral angiography and/or angioplasty.

May 19, 2010

Diagnostic balloon occlusion in normal coronary arteries is safe

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 18 - Diagnostic balloon occlusion is safe in normal coronary arteries, researchers say. They studied outcomes of the procedure in 133 patients with 141 entirely normal coronary arteries and 183 patients with 285 partially normal arteries (at least one stenotic lesion).

May 17, 2010

Male smokers having CABG have high AAA prevalence

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 5 - Some men having coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery -- especially smokers -- should also be screened for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), even if they're younger than screening guideline thresholds, French researchers suggest.

May 4, 2010

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Liver Cancer

CE MRI-based radiomics model captures DEB TACE-induced tumor changes

Researchers in Germany evaluated a Siamese network model's performance in optimizing hepatocellular carcinoma treatment.

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Imaging casts new light on war injuries

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Hybrid AI reading shows success in breast cancer screening

Is this the future of catering in healthcare?

Cooking robot gets rave reviews in Tübingen

Woman Shoulder Pain Adobe Pics With Love

Ultrasound plus MRI helps diagnose pain from rotator cuff tendinopathy

Germans propose novel method for diagnosing Alzheimer’s

Researchers in Cologne have put forward a fresh approach derived from brain PET imaging for diagnosing and staging Alzheimer’s disease.

March 31, 2025

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Nociceptive responses to contrast CT aren't necessarily pathology

By Kate Madden Yee

Nociceptive responses to contrast CT such as intense warmth, urinary urgency, a metallic taste, dry mouth, and mild discomfort or pain aren't necessarily indicators of adverse contrast reactions.

March 28, 2025

Contrast Injector

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound excels in scrotal imaging

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound adds a critical dimension to the evaluation of scrotal diseases, award-winning researchers from a top London university hospital have reported.

March 27, 2025

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Team Dublin tackles ultrasound workflow issues

By Maryam Payne

A quality improvement initiative has highlighted problems in the ultrasound procedural room at Dublin's Mater Hospital.

March 27, 2025

Survey casts light on what referrers think of radiology reports

By Maryam Payne

Referring doctors in Germany have voiced their opinions on the quality and usefulness of radiology reports, as well as their preferences.

March 26, 2025

German Radiology Resized

Radiology societies demand retraction of 'flawed' interventional guideline

The American College of Radiology and 33 other societies have urged the BMJ to retract guidelines on injections for back and neck pain.

March 25, 2025

Doctor Anesthesiologist Operating Room

MRI identifies parts of the brain that remember words

By Kate Madden Yee

MRI has identified parts of the brain needed to remember words -- and how those parts may be affected by epilepsy.

March 25, 2025

Brain Puzzle Dementia

Radiology errors lead to scan delays and avoidable deaths

By Maryam Payne

Mistakes by radiologists have contributed to delays in diagnosis and treatment and avoidable patient deaths in at least 45 cases since 2021, a U.K. health watchdog has reported.

March 24, 2025

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@TheFrenchRadiologist shows the way on social media

By Claudia Tschabuschnig

Dr. Sophie-Hélène Zaimi, known on social media as @TheFrenchRadiologist, has over 143,000 followers on Instagram. She explains what it takes to build up such a large following.

March 24, 2025

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7-tesla MRI technique proves effective in epilepsy

By Kate Madden Yee

A 7-tesla MRI method is showing clinical promise for identifying microscopic differences in patients' brains that cause drug-resistant epilepsy.

March 24, 2025

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ML-based system predicts x-ray service times

A team in Italy has developed a real-time machine-learning (ML) system that can predict x-ray service times in emergency departments.

March 21, 2025

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What makes medical students choose a career in radiology?

By Maryam Payne

In an interview with the German Roentgen Society conducted at ECR 2025, medical students Fadi Matar and Johannes Wörsdörfer reveal why they're interested in radiology.

March 21, 2025

Johannes Wörsdörfer (left) and Fadi Matar gained firsthand experience in the world of radiology at ECR 2025. Courtesy of Johannes Wörsdörfer and DRG.

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