A new study suggests coronary CT angiography (CTA), in addition to standard care in patients with stable chest pain, lowers death rates from coronary heart disease (CHD) or nonfatal myocardial (MI) infarction at five years, compared to standard care alone.

Researchers are able to examine patient-specific characteristics and improve the the predictive ability of lung cancer screening while still maintaining the sensitivity of low-dose CT similar to the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), according to a study in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Radiologists can rignificant reduce radiation dose by using patient-specific body weight-based protocols during whole-body 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) PET/CT without compromising image quality, according to new research published in Academic Radiology.

Mammography screening is down among younger women since the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updated its breast cancer screening guidelines in November 2009, according to a recent study published in JAMA Surgery. This includes women with a history of breast cancer.

The embattled Canberra Hospital in Australia is facing more scrutiny for being forced to send all inpatient CT scans to external providers last week due to unplanned leaves, the Canberra Times reported.

Canberra Hospital in Canberra, Australia, was forced to outsource all inpatient CT exams to an external provider for a full week due to “an unplanned leave” within the radiology department

Nupur Verma, MD, with the radiology department at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and two colleagues explored how a radiologist can become more persuasive in an Aug. 23 commentary in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

The past several years have seen the development of a de facto stealth campaign against screening mammography. “Vast Study Casts Doubts on Value of Mammograms,” the New York Times bullhorned in 2014. “Why Getting a Mammogram May Cause More Trouble Than It’s Worth,” a Prevention headline blared in 2016. “It’s Time to End Mammograms, Some Experts Say,” trumpeted Time this past December. All of this is fueled, of course, by the never-ending disputes over guidelines issued by numerous authoritative groups.