Clinical Research

A key step forward: Researchers ID the genes responsible for CAD

The team hopes its findings can lead to significant progress in the war against fatty plaques.

Global survey finds radiology social-media users like YouTube best

Instagram is a fairly close second, Facebook a fighting third, Twitter a respectable fourth and LinkedIn a visible fifth.

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Imaging guidelines cut unnecessary child CT scans in half

Results demonstrate how implementing adjusted procedures to limit radiation exposures for children may lower cancer risks and save on health care costs.

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Why are post-TAVR stroke rates higher at comprehensive stroke centers?

One of the more likely reasons is simple: specialty centers have better tools for identifying signs of stroke.

COVID in pregnant women manifests by variant in developing offspring: MRI study

Prenatal MRI is adept at revealing potentially damaging placental lesions affecting fetuses whose mothers were infected with COVID-19 while carrying.

Heart palpitations, chest pain among the long-lasting side effects of COVID-19, new research confirms

“Before we examined the data, I thought we would find an ample amount of the symptoms to be specifically associated with long COVID, but that wasn’t the case," one researcher said. 

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Obesity and Alzheimer's look similar on brain imaging, cause comparable neurodegeneration

New data suggest that both obesity and Alzheimer's can cause excess grey matter cortical thinning. 

AI helps reading-room radiologists differentiate colon cancer from diverticulitis

The model augmented and significantly improved diagnostic performance for abdominal subspecialists as well as residents—a result researchers say has major clinical implications.