As online learning options for radiology continue to grow, some students are turning to Second Life—a virtual community developed by its own users and reigned by avatars—to complete their medical education, researchers in Malaga, Spain, have found.

Facebook had been discussing a data sharing project with hospitals and medical groups to match patient data with socioeconomic information from Facebook profiles, but CNBC reports the project has been put on hold as the social network faces scrutiny over how it collects and shares data on its users.

Though many areas of the world are seeing an increase in childhood obesity rates, Amsterdam has cut the number of overweight and obese children by 12 percent through city-wide “healthy-weight program" that has kids weighed regularly and tested for balance and agility.

Both men and women over the age of 50 have reduced their risk factors for heart disease and stroke over a 20-year period, according to a new study published online March 22 in Aging Clinical and Experimental Research.

Utah is among the five lowest states in the U.S. for mammography screening rates, Brigham Young University’s newspaper, The Daily Universe, reported this week.

In a freewheeling question-and-answer session at the ACHE Congress in Chicago, Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush made some bold statements about where electronic health records are heading and why virtualization should trump other healthcare priorities.

A radiopharmaceutical tool developed by German and Swiss scientists has the potential to guide and assess treatment of neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and multiple sclerosis with PET imaging.

Deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are often associated with identifying nodules and classifying images, but a recent study found convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be utilized in radiology workflows to determine musculoskeletal MRI protocols.

In the past month, two studies came to very different conclusions when examining if the human brain is capable of growing new neurons later in life. The first, published March 7 in Nature, found no evidence of neurogenesis in individuals older than 13 years old. But another study, released April 5 in Cell Stem Cell, claimed to find neuron generation in all the brains examined.

An adaptation of digital mammography could cut image acquisition times and provide a new screening method to patients unable to undergo breast MRI, but added time commitments could make the technique difficult to implement in clinical practice, a case study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology suggests.