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Cardiac PET use increases in coronary artery disease

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PET, CT, and MRI use for assessing coronary artery disease increased in Medicare patients from 2018 to 2022, while SPECT and stress echocardiography declined over the same period, researchers have reported. Taken together, these findings call for efforts to address barriers impeding wider uptake of PET,” the group wrote.

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AuntMinnie 2018: NIH releases massive database of chest x-rays

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Our top article in 2018 covered an important early development that supported efforts to train AI algorithms. Such algorithms can help teach computers how to detect and diagnose disease, the NIH said in a September 27 announcement. A number of the images are of patients with advanced lung disease, according to the NIH.

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ARRS: ACR guideline changes lead to sharp uptick in breast MRI use

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The use of breast MRI has increased 14-fold since the American College of Radiology (ACR) changed its guidelines in 2018, a study presented May 7 at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting found. The ACR’s 2018 guideline changes impacted MRI screening for women with a personal history of breast cancer.

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Elastography predicts treatment response in colorectal cancer patients

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The researchers categorized the chemotherapeutic response of study participants by either responders including complete remission and partial remission, and nonresponders including stable disease and progressive disease. In total, the group included data collected between 2018 and 2021 for 67 patients.

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Houston radiologist to pay $8.8M in fraud case

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According to the claim, beginning in 2015, Andrew Gomes , MD, allegedly offered physicians who invested in his clinics returns in dividends if they referred patients for treatment of peripheral arterial disease (PAD). In this case, the whistleblower filed a complaint in late 2018, which triggered the investigation.

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Pharmacist sentenced in radiopharmaceutical criminal case

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From January 2018 to June 2019, Sheriff and pharmacists under his direction would fractionate or split the active ingredient of Technescan MAG3, without ensuring the pieces were equal in size, purity, or strength, according to the U.S.

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Secondhand smoke raises osteoporosis risk in women

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A group at the Federico II University of Naples analyzed rates of osteoporosis in women diagnosed with the disease using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scans. They found that women exposed to environmental tobacco smoke had similar rates of the disease as those who actively smoked.

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