The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) elected Jeffrey S. Klein, MD, to its board of directors at its annual meeting in Chicago. Klein will serve as the board liaison for publications and communications.

NYU Langone Health’s Department of Radiology is planning to release a large-scale dataset that includes more than 1.5 million MRI knee images in an ongoing effort to make MRI scans faster with AI.

Despite hospitals’ attempts to calm patients with music, relaxing imagery and even virtual reality, research continues to support the fact that excess noise in the doctor’s office increases patients’ anxiety levels, worsening healthcare outcomes and degrading a provider's quality of care.

A new expert consensus document from the American College of Cardiology singled out liraglutide and empagliflozin as the preferred drugs in their classes to reduce cardiovascular risk among patients with type 2 diabetes and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

The completion of the $67 billion merger between health insurer Cigna and Express Scripts has been delayed, according to a public filing. The deal was anticipated to close by December 8, but the companies have decided to delay that deadline by six months.

The radiology department at the U.K.'s Great Western Hospital is seeing significant improvements after radiologists and other providers put in extra hours to combat long patient wait times.

After using deep learning on patient scans to track cancer evolution, one research team is hopeful the “promising results” can help improve treatment response and survival predictions for cancer patients.

"Neural networks, such as cycle-consistent generative adversarial network (CycleGAN), are not only able to learn what breast cancer looks like, we have now shown that they can insert these learned characteristics into mammograms of healthy patients or remove cancerous lesions from the image and replace them with normal looking tissue,” said Anton S. Becker, MD, at RSNA 2018 in Chicago.

Treatment that delivers pulses of energy directly to nerves near the spine is a safe and effective procedure in patients with acute lower back pain, according to research presented Tuesday, Nov. 27, at RSNA 2018 in Chicago. The method may help patients who have not responded to conservative treatments.

Chemotherapy and radiation treatments may negatively impact the cognitive function of breast cancer patients, according to new research published in Cancer.