-
1 week ago | 
buff.ly | Erik L. Ridley |Davin Korstjens |Amerigo Allegretto |Maryam Payne
Ending out-of-pocket patient payments for digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) can increase overall utilization for breast cancer screening, but it doesn’t completely eliminate racial disparities, according to a study published June 19 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
-
1 week ago | 
buff.ly | Amerigo Allegretto |Edna Astbury-Ward |Philip Ward |Maryam Payne
The Italian Society of Medical and Interventional Radiology (SIRM) joined forces with other medical associations from 10 to 14 June in Italy’s northwest coastal region of Liguria to boost awareness of cancer prevention. Society members gathered with the Italian Association of Medical Oncology, the AIRC Foundation, and the AIOM Foundation in Genoa at the “Villaggio Italia” (Calata Mandraccio) in the final stage of the Vespucci World Tour.
-
1 week ago | 
buff.ly | Will Morton |Philip Ward |Maryam Payne |Amerigo Allegretto
If learning medicine is like learning a different language, then learning radiology is like learning an additional related language. A bit like learning Spanish and then having to learn Portuguese as well. Radiologists, therefore, have these three linguistic identities: normal language, medical lingo, and radiology-speak. Moreover, there is verbal radiology and there is dictated radiology. Radiologists subconsciously switch between these many times a day.
-
1 week ago | 
buff.ly | Edna Astbury-Ward |Philip Ward |Amerigo Allegretto |Maryam Payne
Volumetric body composition metrics is a rapidly emerging technique and can be a strong indicator of survival in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC), a study published on 14 June in the European Journal of Radiology has found. The relationship between the two is complex, however, and conventional approaches may not provide a comprehensive assessment, according to a team from the Departments of Cancer Epidemiology and Breast Oncology at the H.
-
2 weeks ago | 
buff.ly | Will Morton |Maryam Payne |Liz Carey |Edna Astbury-Ward
A radiologist, his pathologist wife, and their three children have been named among the 240-plus victims of the Air India plane crash, according to a report posted by BBC News on 13 June.
-
2 weeks ago | 
buff.ly | Will Morton |Philip Ward |Maryam Payne |Liz Carey
A U.K. coroner has said a shortage of radiologists was "a root cause" of the death of a patient from an undiagnosed coronary artery tear, according to a 12 June BBC report. Mark Villers, a 42-year-old mortgage advisor, died three days after he sought help for an unidentified tear in his aorta at Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, on 21 May 2024. Abnormalities that were visible on a CT scan went unrecognized, the BBC article stated.
-
2 weeks ago | 
auntminnieeurope.com | Liz Carey |Maryam Payne |Will Morton |Philip Ward
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases worldwide, especially in medically underserved regions like rural Tanzania. In this Q&A interview by the German Roentgen Society (DRG), radiologist Dr. Amir H. Bigdeli reports on a pilot project that uses AI specifically in areas where there are no specialists on site.
-
2 weeks ago | 
buff.ly | Amerigo Allegretto |Erik L. Ridley |Maryam Payne |Michael J. Cannavo
An MRI deep-learning algorithm can help quantify neurotoxicity in patients having a significant complication after chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, according to a presentation at the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago.
-
2 weeks ago | 
buff.ly | Liz Carey |Amerigo Allegretto |Maryam Payne |Edna Astbury-Ward
Liver cirrhosis results in cardiac changes that are more extensive than previously established, according to a study published on 5 June in European Radiology. Despite preoperative screening, cardiac-associated death remains a leading cause of post-transplant mortality in cirrhosis patients, explained Dr. Jennifer Erley and colleagues in the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany.
-
3 weeks ago | 
auntminnieeurope.com | Liz Carey |Maryam Payne |Erik L. Ridley
The in-person element of the 106th edition of the German Radiology Congress (Deutscher Röntgenkongress, RöKo 2025) wound up in Wiesbaden on 30 May. To mark the occasion, below is a selection of images from the onsite meeting (click on thumbnail for photo caption).
