The downward trend in annual mammography adherence should serve as a call to action for new processes to engage breast cancer survivors, physicians urged.

The company's flagship offering uses AI to evaluate 3D images of a patient's heart for signs of atherosclerotic plaque.

Now valued at $1.2B, the San Francisco startup was co-founded by a neurosurgeon and offers a suite of solutions for diagnosing diseases from medical images. 

The agency has maintained the same pay restrictions in its final policy, only covering PET scans if required by a clinical trial protocol. 

Quality improvement efforts have sought to address such low-value diagnostic testing in the ED, with little attention paid to ambulatory settings, experts wrote in JAMA. 

Such diagnoses were higher among community practices compared to academic institutions, with lack of subspecialty training a likely underlying factor, experts wrote in JACR. 

Experts suggest that their findings could help differentiate between dementia and other neurological diseases that have similar symptoms.

The increased risk of deep vein thrombosis lasts for up to three months, researchers found. 

Out of 50,000 men included in the study, 17.5% sustained a fracture after beginning prostate cancer treatment, but only 7.9% received such scans.

Joanna Chikwe, MD, founding chair of the department of cardiac surgery at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, compares transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) to mitral valve surgery for primary mitral regurgitation.