When Clock's Ticking on Vision Loss, New Protocol Speeds Eye Stroke Diagnoses Hospitals picked up pace by using OCT scanners and embracing virtual diagnoses Feb 14, 2024
More Patients Rely on Early Prenatal Testing as States Toughen Abortion Laws But testing early in pregnancy may be inaccurate Feb 13, 2024
Late Tenecteplase Not Beneficial for Stroke Patients With LVOs Lytic at least appeared safe in a selected population with many undergoing thrombectomy Feb 09, 2024
Before Stroke Thrombectomy, Keep the Bed Flat, Trial Says Tilting the head of the bed up during early window in large vessel occlusion hurts outcomes Feb 07, 2024
Anticoagulant Falls Short for Secondary Stroke Prevention in Atrial Cardiopathy Can atrial cardiopathy really be the cause of some cryptogenic strokes? Feb 07, 2024
Getting a Dental X-Ray? New Recommendation Says You Don't Need a Lead Apron Advocacy and education needed to change more minds about the apron, according to an expert Feb 03, 2024
AI Diagnoses Deadly Disease; Radiology's New AI Guidance; WHO Tackles LMMs A monthly roundup of healthcare-focused AI news and research Jan 25, 2024
Two-Stage Screening Strategy for Ovarian Cancer Continues to Show Progress Large study shows stage shift, high specificity, increasing PPV over 21 years Jan 24, 2024
Is Adding an AI Readout to Mammography Worth It? Women would have to pay out-of-pocket, as reimbursement is a long way off Jan 24, 2024
FDA Clears AI-Powered Non-Invasive Skin Cancer Detector Intended for use in primary care, handheld device is first of its kind Jan 17, 2024
Breast Cancer Mortality Reduced by 58% Over Past Four Decades Modeling study suggests advances in treatment played largest role, followed by screening Jan 16, 2024
Exercise ECGs Highly Specific for Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction Reconsidering the humble testing modality's false-positive issue Jan 08, 2024
Opening Blood-Brain Barrier to Deliver Alzheimer's Drug Shows Promise Focused ultrasound helped aducanumab reduce amyloid-beta levels Jan 03, 2024
Oral Factor XIa Inhibitor Disappoints for Secondary Stroke Prevention Milvexian did not reduce strokes or covert brain infarcts in AXIOMATIC-SSP Dec 28, 2023
'Medicare for All' Candidate in 2024; Exploding MRI Machine; Doc Convicted of Murder Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 鶹ý staff Dec 21, 2023
Explanations Don't Help Clinicians Spot Biased AI Biased AI predictions tanked diagnostic accuracy, and model explanations didn't bring it back up Dec 19, 2023
Alzheimer's Blood Test Predicts Who Might Benefit Most From Anti-Amyloid Drugs Novel two-cutoff approach may reduce need for confirmatory PET scans Dec 05, 2023
Breast Cancer Screening Frequency Makes a Big Survival Difference Keeping those mammogram appointments is life-saving, study finds Nov 30, 2023
Deep-Learning Model Shows Promise for ADHD Diagnosis in Teens AI algorithm identified significant differences in nine brain white matter tracts Nov 30, 2023
AI Model Can Predict Breast Cancer Risk Regardless of Patient's Race Algorithm proved accurate where traditional risk models have failed, but needs more testing Nov 30, 2023
With an Old X-Ray, AI Can Detect High Risk of Lung Cancer in Never Smokers Tool could identify nonsmokers most likely to benefit from low-dose CT screening Nov 29, 2023
Stronger Quads May Lower Risk for Knee Replacement Surgery Higher quadricep-hamstring ratio associated with 82% lower odds in NIH cohort Nov 29, 2023
Common Headaches May Be Pains in the Neck Imaging links inflammation to migraine and tension headaches Nov 29, 2023
COVID Tied to Changes in Brain Microstructure Alterations seen in both long COVID patients and those who recovered from infection Nov 28, 2023
Diagnostic Imaging Not Yet Enough for Biopsy-Free Radical Prostatectomy Study validates concerns about benign prostatic hyperplasia-related PSMA-PET false positives Nov 27, 2023
Uh-Oh, Is a Robot Coming for Your Radiographic Analysis Job? Computer matches live expert in measuring joint space and erosions Nov 15, 2023
Hospitals Have Many Opportunities to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Experts Say Radiology departments and operating rooms are good targets Nov 10, 2023
X-Rays Questioned for Diagnosing Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Hardly any patients show abnormalities, so why do them? Nov 08, 2023
Lung Cancer Survival High at 20 Years With Screen-Detected Tumors After two decades, lung cancer-specific survival remained at 81% in I-ELCAP program Nov 07, 2023
False-Positive Mammograms May Indicate Higher Breast Cancer Risk in the Future Swedish cohort study shows a 61% increased risk over 20 years Nov 02, 2023
ACS: Millions More Should Get Lung Cancer Screening Notably, new recommendations say it doesn't matter when a person quit smoking Nov 01, 2023
Primary Care Intervention Improved Follow-Up of Abnormal Cancer Screening Results Follow-up testing within 120 days was improved with EHR reminders, patient outreach, navigation Oct 10, 2023
Risk of Contrast Media Causing Acute Kidney Injury Is Overblown, Study Finds Despite restrictions on its use, an association with kidney injury hasn't been shown Oct 10, 2023
Use of Recent Diagnostic CT Scans for Palliative RT Planning Reduced Treatment Time Time to treatment completion slashed by over 4 hours compared with CT simulation planning Oct 04, 2023
Mortality Risk From Damaged Bronchi Extends to People Without COPD Findings support use of lung imaging for clinically defining bronchiectasis, study authors say Oct 02, 2023
Oktoberfest Doctor: Not the Wurst Job You Could Have A Q&A with the head emergency physician at the world's largest beer festival Sep 28, 2023
AI Not Ready to Replace Radiologists Interpreting Chest X-Rays Commercial tools show low sensitivity in some cases Sep 26, 2023
Diagnostic CV Procedures Rebounded After Dipping in 2020 U.S. procedural volumes exceeded March 2019 levels by 4% in April 2021 Sep 22, 2023
Ultrasound May Help Early Breast Cancer Patients Avoid SLNB No axillary surgery matches SLNB for patients with a negative ultrasound of axillary lymph nodes Sep 21, 2023
AI Has an Image Problem in Healthcare, Expert Says Yes, it needs guardrails, but it also offers big opportunities, notes former Microsoft executive Sep 19, 2023
