Secondary interpretations of diagnostic imaging examinations have increased significantly among Medicare beneficiaries, according to a new study published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology. The authors also noted that denial rates for these secondary interpretations are “uniformly low.”

Ten percent of radiologists have been sexual harassed by a patient in the last three years, according to a new report published by Medscape. Out of 29 specialties included it the report, radiology had the smallest percentage of physicians who reported experiencing sexual harassment during that time frame.

Women who take part in assisted reproductive therapies (ART) such as in vitro fertilization are not at an increased risk of invasive breast cancer, according to a recent study published in the BMJ.

Opening hospital doors for nonurgent radiology procedures during the weekend reduces patients’ length of stay, improves their progression toward early discharge and keeps ER admissions manageable, a team of Harvard researchers report in the current edition of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Follow-up imaging for women with non-metastatic breast cancer differs widely across the U.S., research out of the University of California, San Francisco, has found. The key factor in discerning patients' follow-up treatment seems to be where they live.

Incidentalomas are an ever-increasing presence in imaging, Reuters Health reported this week, but they often do more harm than good, according to a recent review of more than half a million patients.

A patient at Palm Coast Urgent Care in Palm Coast, Florida, thought she was receiving advice about where she could get a mammogram. But then, she says, a physician led her into an examination room and grabbed her breasts.

An imaging technique that can assess immune system recovery in macaque monkeys with an HIV-like infection could have similar future applications for evaluating recovery in humans after HIV treatment, the National Institutes of Health has announced.