When it comes to transgender patients, radiologists can be confused due to unfamiliarity with specific preferences or needs, a pair of researchers with the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Canada said this month in Radiography. Taking those patients’ unique considerations to heart and educating radiology staff about transgender realities can make a big difference in how the population receives medical care.

The American Medical Association (AMA) released a report on May 31 detailing how “physician leadership” has led to progress fighting the epidemic of opioid abuse and addiction. Just two days earlier, however, a story published by the Daily Beast labeled the AMA as a main roadblock to Congress addressing the prescription of opioids.

Though designed to reduce radiation exposure during CT perfusion, orbit shields can cause more harm than good to neuroradiology patients, Swiss researchers reported this week. The shields, meant to be preventive, could be rendering whole brain scans diagnostically useless.

When CT is utilized to image a trauma patient, two subspecialty radiologists—neuroradiologists and body radiologists—often interpret the patient’s thoracic and lumbar spine. The two subspecialists don’t always agree on the presence of an unequivocal acute fracture.

New Jersey will maintain the penalty on a statewide level in 2019. Vermont's law will take more time, with a working group tasked with figuring out how to enforce the mandate beginning in 2020.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has added five new members, including a former head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and chief medical officers at HCA Healthcare and Geisinger Health System.

The American Cancer Society (ACS) updated its recommendations for colorectal cancer screening this week, lowering the age people at average risk should begin screening from 50 to 45. The American College of Radiology (ACR) has issued a statement of its own, highlighting the benefits of virtual colonoscopy, an ACS-approved colorectal cancer screening method.

Researchers from Hannover Medical School in Germany have developed a tablet-based symptom drawing application to provide clinicians and patients with a way to assess pain. The team published its findings May 30 in JMIR mHealth and uHealth.