Toni Woods is suing a New Zealand district health board (DHB) after her partner’s CT scans—which showed enlarged nodes on his chest and neck—were lost due to an IT error. After a year of continued illness and not knowing the results of the previous scan, Lindsay Collinson’s cardiologist ordered a new scan, which revealed metastasized cancer. Within four months, Collinson was dead.

What does one do with snake with a broken back? Send it to your local imaging professional for an MRI, of course. At least, that's what happened in a suburb of Mumbai when a rescuer brought bamboo pit viper to the hospital after a frightened local had smacked it with a stick. An x-ray didn’t offer any definitive answers, so the venomous snake then underwent an MRI.

Demand for musculoskeletal ultrasound continues to rise, but many radiology residency programs are not providing adequate training in this space, according to the authors of a Sept. 19 Academic Radiology study.

Though many studies focus on burnout in American healthcare professionals, Canadian researchers are saying the issue isn’t bound by borders. It’s an international problem.

The healthcare industry is making progress in providing support to professionals who experience burnout or job dissatisfaction. But what happens when the many pressures faced by physicians can lead to self-harm?

More than 8,700 physicians, including radiologists, participated in a new Merritt Hawkins survey on the practice patterns and opinions of healthcare providers throughout the U.S.

New research in Radiology suggests thermal ablation is a safe, effective primary treatment for stage 1 non-small cell lung cancer for individuals who cannot undergo lung cancer surgery because of age or health status. Researchers have also noted it is non-inferior to stereotactic radiation therapy.

Canadian researchers discussed the growing epidemic of radiology burnout in a recent article in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.