MRI technologists serving patients who have difficulty understanding English may need to budget additional scanner time—especially when image quality largely depends on patients’ compliance with breathing instructions.

Authors of the new paper noted that radiologists should be highly suspicious of pulmonary embolism and DVT when they encounter these findings on chest CT exams of COVID patients.

An international team of researchers, led by specialists from Cleveland Clinic, found that DAPT was consistently linked to a greater risk of major or life-threatening bleeding events. 

After day shifts began bleeding into night shifts at frustratingly frequent rates, one radiology practice in Kentucky devised a plan to get its lengthy worklists back on track—enter the “bunker shift.”

The newly cleared device works like a traditional scale, but it captures more data than just the user's weight. 

“With increasing global rates of Lyme disease, providing a new option for people to help protect themselves from the disease is more important than ever,” says Annaliesa Anderson, PhD, senior vice president and head of vaccine research & development at Pfizer.

The FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has updated the status of two previously disaccredited mammography operations, rehabilitating the reputation of one while showing the other in limbo.

The presence of any or all of four factors can help ensure appropriate CT utilization in emergency settings: established diagnostic pathways, alternative test availability, involvement of specialists and feedback from referrers.

The deal brings together one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the United States with a biopharmaceutical company specializing in blood disorders.

The science community lost a man who pioneered one of medical imaging’s most important developments when Raymond Vahan Damadian passed away August 3.