Ease of access, lower cost, and shorter scan time, especially for emergent clinical indications such as acute stroke, all may be fueling CTA volumes. 

Excellence Imagerie operates four main centers and employs 60 radiologists carrying out 400,000 consultations each year. 

When policymakers eased rules and restrictions governing telemedicine in 2020, many patients and their doctors saw the change as one shiny silver lining in the very dark cloud that was the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately for them, that period has passed. 

Researchers are aiming to use ultrasound to breach the blood-brain barrier and deliver drug therapies.

If private hospitals and clinics mimicked the staffing strategies of the Veterans Health Administration, the former would employ almost a million fewer nonclinical workers.

"It’s clear to me that urgent intervention is long overdue," one cardiologist said in a statement. 

LungQ guides pulmonologists as they work to access peripheral locations within the lungs.

The statistician pocketed $270,000 in profits after Paxlovid's ability to combat COVID-19 was revealed publicly in a landmark announcement.