Reuters Health

Benefit of mammograms even greater than thought

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The longest-running breast cancer screening study ever conducted has shown that regular mammograms prevent deaths from breast cancer, and the number of lives saved increases over time, an international research team said on Tuesday.

June 27, 2011

Endobronchial ultrasound no extra help with lung lesions

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Endobronchial ultrasound doesn't improve cancer detection in peripheral lung lesions, Norwegian researchers have found. Instead, biopsy plus brushing is most cost-effective for this purpose.

May 10, 2011

U.K. immigrant screens miss most latent TB: study

LONDON (Reuters) - British tuberculosis (TB) screening for new immigrants fails to detect most imported cases of latent disease, and screening should be widened to include more people from the Indian subcontinent, scientists said on Thursday.

April 21, 2011

Medical, Legal, and Practice

Lansley says sorry to nurses over health reforms

LONDON(Reuters) - Health Secretary Andrew Lansley apologized for the poor communication of his health reforms and said changes would be made to draft legislation after nurses passed a vote of no confidence in him.

April 13, 2011

Medical, Legal, and Practice

U.K. coalition puts brake on NHS reform

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's coalition government said on Monday it would slow the pace of a radical shake up of the state-funded National Health Service (NHS), reflecting growing unease over the issue within the ruling alliance.

April 4, 2011

Medical, Legal, and Practice

U.K. coalition puts brake on NHS reform

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's coalition government said on Monday it would slow the pace of a radical shake up of the state-funded National Health Service (NHS), reflecting growing unease over the issue within the ruling alliance.

April 3, 2011

'Guinea pig' remark spurs U.S., EU device spat

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A trans-Atlantic spat has erupted after a top U.S. official suggested European patients may be "guinea pigs" for medical devices with less government oversight.

February 28, 2011

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Cancer death rates on decline in Europe

LONDON (Reuters) - Fewer than 1.3 million people will die from cancer in Europe this year as death rates from the disease fall, researchers said on Wednesday, except that more women are dying of lung cancer in every country except Britain.

February 9, 2011

Most-severe coronary perforations still challenge cardiologists, high risks to patients

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although rare, grade III coronary perforations remain associated with high rates of acute and long-term major adverse cardiac events, according to a recent study by Italian and English researchers.

January 28, 2011

Radiation may increase long-term heart risks

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women treated for breast cancer with radiation therapy are more likely to die from heart disease 20 years or more down the line than women who don't get radiation, according to a new study.

January 20, 2011

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Hybrid AI reading shows success in breast cancer screening

A Dutch team found that a hybrid reading strategy for screening mammography reduced radiologist workload by 38% without changing recall or cancer detection rates.

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Cooking robot gets rave reviews in Tübingen

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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

Foreign body imaging: X-ray overused, ultrasound underused

By Maryam Payne

Ultrasound is an effective modality for detecting radiolucent foreign bodies, but it's being underused compared with x-ray, U.K. musculoskeletal researchers have found.

June 27, 2025

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IR study: Keep aware of hydrophilic polymer embolization

By Maryam Payne

Clinicians, vendors, and regulators must collaborate to prevent hydrophilic polymer embolization, an underdiagnosed complication of endovascular interventions, European interventional radiology (IR) experts have asserted.

June 26, 2025

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Radiology mourns death of Ireland’s Barry Kelly

Tributes are being paid to Prof. Barry Kelly, an important figure in Irish radiology who played a central role in designing and implementing the ESR’s audit scheme and the European Diploma of Radiology.

June 24, 2025

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AI improves MRI diagnosis of prostate cancer

AI assistance can help diagnose clinically significant prostate cancer on MRI, a Dutch study has found.

June 23, 2025

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How can we minimize errors caused by human factors?

By Maryam Payne

An awareness of individual limits and vulnerabilities is a useful starting point for radiologists to safely manage the increasing demand for imaging.

June 23, 2025

Radiologist Brain Scans Monitor

New advice issued on cardiac CT for prosthetic heart valves

By Maryam Payne

European and North American experts have published consensus guidance on the use of cardiac CT for prosthetic heart valve assessment.

June 20, 2025

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Ukraine hosts international cardiovascular conference

By Edna Astbury-Ward, PhD

Further evidence of Ukraine’s ongoing commitment to medical education was provided by the two-day conference “Modern Cardiovascular Interventions: Lviv Forum.” It attracted around 360 onsite attendees and 870 virtual delegates.

June 20, 2025

Attendees from across Ukraine were onsite for the congress. All photos courtesy of Heart Center Lviv and Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University.

McCoubrie on the mangling of medical English

By Dr. Paul McCoubrie

Radiologists should employ simplicity of phrase, avoid arcane jargon, and ensure reports are not Joycean, writes Dr. Paul McCoubrie.

June 19, 2025

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Swedish team shows clinical potential of tau PET scans

Tau PET brain scans can help to identify the risk of clinical progression of Alzheimer’s disease in both the preclinical and symptomatic stages.

June 18, 2025

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Hospital colleagues pay tribute to Prateek Joshi

Dr. Prateek Joshi, the radiologist who died in the Air India plane crash that killed at least 279 people, was cherished by everyone and has left a profound void, his hospital colleagues say.

June 17, 2025

During his four years working in the U.K., Dr. Prateek Joshi developed a love of walking in the Peak District in central England and eating fish and chips. Photo courtesy of UHDB.

CT advances in colorectal cancer survival

By Maryam Payne

Volumetric analysis can give more information than single-slice analysis about body composition, which is associated with survival in patients with colorectal cancer.

June 17, 2025

Examples of CT volumetric and single-slice images produced by Data Analysis Facilitation Suite (DAFS) v3.9 software are displayed.

Essen team tackles imaging deidentification tasks

By Maryam Payne

German researchers have developed an open-source AI tool that can help boost patient privacy by speeding up the deidentification of medical imaging data.

June 16, 2025

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