Radiology is one of the few medical specialties that allow for location flexibility, but what clinicians gain in the convenience of working from home, they lose in the form of fulfillment that only physical presence can offer, some argue. 

Welcome to Movers and Shakers, a roundup of the latest executive movements in the healthcare industry, featuring leadership changes at Rite Aid and Oak Street Health.

AVS, a Michigan-based medical device company, has said the funding will help accelerate research on its new Pulse P-IVL system. One clinical trial is already underway. 

Gwendolyn Bryant-Smith, MD, division chief of breast imaging and associate director for diversity, equity and inclusion at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas, discussed how her center addressed health inequities in mammography.

New York City nurses went on strike on Jan. 9 after contract negotiations between workers and two major hospitals collapsed over the weekend.

The UK's Home Secretary recently proposed the use of X-ray, CT and/or MRI for age checks to determine which migrants are, in fact, children and which ones might be posing as children in an attempt to remain in the country.

A med-tech leader of note is taking skills refined at Amazon, the FDA and the CDC to GE HealthCare, where he will serve as the newly independent company’s first CTO. 

As the field of radiology research adapted to withstand the pandemic’s challenges, it morphed in some decidedly beneficial ways.