Reuters Health

New MRI techniques could mean faster scans

LONDON (Reuters), Mar 27 - Two new techniques using different approaches to see molecular changes inside people's bodies could lead to faster, more detailed imaging scans that better detect health problems, researchers said on Thursday.

March 26, 2009

Cancer cure rates on the rise in Europe: study

LONDON (Reuters), Mar 24 - More Europeans are beating cancer, perhaps due to more widespread screening and earlier diagnosis, according to a study published on Tuesday.

March 23, 2009

Whole-body CT improves survival in patients with multiple major injuries

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Mar 24 - Surgeons and radiologists in Germany report that early use of whole-body CT in patients with major blunt trauma significantly increases their odds of survival.

March 23, 2009

CA125 and ultrasound effective for ovarian cancer screening

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Mar 17 - The results of the largest ovarian cancer screening trial to date suggest that a transvaginal ultrasound strategy or a multimodal approach that includes CA125 testing and ultrasound are both effective in detecting early-stage disease.

March 16, 2009

Palliative osteoplasty provides immediate relief from painful bone metastases

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Mar 11 - Percutaneous osteoplasty provides immediate and substantial pain relief in patients with extraspinal lytic lesions due to benign and metastatic diseases who do not respond to conventional analgesic treatment, according to research reported at the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) meeting in San Diego.

March 10, 2009

Age differences seen in rectal cancer treatment

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Mar 11 - Rectal cancer patients 75 and older are less likely to undergo radiation before undergoing surgery than are younger people with the disease, new research from Sweden shows.

March 10, 2009

Percutaneous cardiovascular procedures 'strikingly better' with radial access

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Mar 10 - In the real-world setting of contemporary clinical cardiology practices, adverse events following percutaneous cardiovascular procedures are substantially reduced by using radial artery access compared with using femoral access, investigators report in the March issue of Heart.

March 9, 2009

Bigger MRI machine may reduce claustrophobia

WASHINGTON (Reuters), Feb 20 - Swiss researchers who swapped out some of the parts of an MRI scanner said on Wednesday they not only made it more efficient, but also less claustrophobic.

February 19, 2009

Screening CT colonography and colonoscopy similarly effective

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Feb 18 - CT colonography (CTC), also known as virtual colonoscopy, performs as well as traditional optical colonoscopy in detecting advanced adenomas in an average-risk population, results of a study conducted in Germany indicate.

February 17, 2009

Imaging Informatics

Hospital boss slams new NHS computer system

LONDON (Reuters), Feb 13 - An NHS hospital boss criticized the new computerized medical records system on Friday, saying it has cost an extra 10 million pounds to implement and is slowing the rate at which patients are seen.

February 12, 2009

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Is this the future of catering in healthcare?

Cooking robot gets rave reviews in Tübingen

Hospital food doesn’t have to be drab and dreary. The installation of a new machine in Southwest Germany is winning praise from the medical imaging community.

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Ultrasound plus MRI helps diagnose pain from rotator cuff tendinopathy

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Pressure grows for more rigorous financial disclosure

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MRI, CT findings correlate for assessing epicardial fat volume

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ESR survey put focus on radiology subspecialization

Tribunal suspends oncologist over CT scan omission

A tribunal has issued a 12-month suspension to an oncologist who did not inform a patient about the results of a CT scan and who prescribed chemotherapy without documenting the case.

November 19, 2024

Radiologists outperform LLMs in evaluating PI-RADS

By Amerigo Allegretto

Large language models (LLMs) are not ready to assign PI-RADS classifications for prostate cancer, a new study has found.

November 19, 2024

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

GPT-4 proves useful tool in knee MRI reports

GPT-4 can accurately convert free-text knee MRI reports into structured reports, thereby helping to boost communication with referring clinicians.

November 18, 2024

Knee Joint Meniscus Injury

Wireless transducers and MEMs transform ultrasound

By Mustafa Hassan

Wireless transducers and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are among the latest technological trends shaping the ultrasound market.

November 18, 2024

Mobile Ultrasound Devices For Point Of Care Imaging

Ultrasound-guided nerve blocks prove safe for pain management

By Amerigo Allegretto

Ultrasound-guided nerve blocks performed by emergency clinicians appear to be safe for pain management.

November 15, 2024

Do nonmass breast lesion features signal malignancy?

By Amerigo Allegretto

Some nonmass breast lesion characteristics on ultrasound exams can be considered suspicious for malignancy, researchers have found.

November 14, 2024

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New details emerge on identity of Dutch AI fraud suspect

A national newspaper in the Netherlands has revealed more information about the x-ray AI entrepreneur who is still being held in police custody over alleged fraud.

November 13, 2024

Artificial Intelligence Ai And Law

Price rises loom large for contrast media users

By Edna Astbury-Ward, PhD

The prospect of a substantial hike in the price of contrast media has edged closer after the European Council approved a revised EU directive on urban wastewater treatment.

November 12, 2024

Wastewater Treatment

Study casts doubt on accuracy of outsourced reports

Outsourced radiology reports significantly underreport many key elements of abdominal CT scans when compared to the reports of inhouse radiologists, a U.K. study has found.

November 11, 2024

Outsourcing Network Concept 400

Dark-field x-ray detects bone changes related to osteoporosis

Dark-field x-ray imaging can provide insights into bone microstructure and may have a role in assessing osteoporosis, according to a research group from Munich, Germany.

November 11, 2024

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U.K. issues advice on sedation use in radiology

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The U.K. Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) has published a document called "Sedation, analgesia and anaesthesia in radiology." The 28-page practical guide is available for free download.

November 8, 2024

Clinical Radiology 2024 Front Cover

Irish team highlights cranial ultrasound use in infants

By Amerigo Allegretto

Cranial ultrasound may have clinical benefits when it comes to imaging infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, researchers from Dublin have reported.

November 8, 2024

Ultrasound Sound Waves

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