Stanford researchers are redefining the effort to catch osteoarthritis early with a combination of MRI and PET imaging, opening the field up to more noninvasive options for evaluating bone health, according to a study published online in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage.

The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued updated cervical cancer screening guidelines Aug. 21 that stated a human papillomavirus (HPV) test alone is as effective as the commonly used Pap smear.

Researchers from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, found that pediatric patients with brain tumors who undergo radiation treatment are less likely to remember detailed events they’ve experienced after treatment, according to research published online Aug. 20 in Neuroscience.

Tracking tumors inside the body may become easier with the help of a newly developed “in-body GPS” called Remix, developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital.

Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University are using MRI to map patients’ “functional fingerprints,” or the connectomes that make their brains unique, Wired reported this week.

Veterans who utilize Medicare and other fee-for-service health systems for prostate cancer care are more likely to receive guideline-discordant imaging than those treated at the Veterans Health Administration (VA), according to a study published Aug. 17 in JAMA Network Open.

Facebook and the department of radiology at NYU School of Medicine in New York City have announced a new collaboration that will focus on using artificial intelligence (AI) to make MRI scans up to 10 times faster.

The County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust in England announced this week it had been spending between £2 million and £2.5 million—up to $3.2 million in U.S. dollars—each year to rent MRI scanning equipment from a private company, according to the Northern Echo.