Ben White

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The battle between Radiology Partners and UnitedHealthcare has ended with United as the victor. The summary: RP claimed United owed them lots of money for underpayment because United was using a 2020 contract to determine some of its payments instead of a more lucrative 1998 contract originally held by one of its purchased groups, Singleton. United then sued Radiology Partners alleging an illegal pass-through billing scheme.

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Health Imaging

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Some of the findings observed have also been reported in patients who have multiple sclerosis, “which could suggest partially shared pathophysiological substrates of fatigue symptoms,” researchers indicated.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A new hand-held scanner developed by UCL researchers can generate highly detailed 3D photoacoustic images in just seconds, paving the way for their use in a clinical setting for the first time and offering the potential for earlier disease diagnosis.

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Radiology Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Attorneys filed the complaint Sept. 24 in the New York State Supreme Court, also naming William A Weiner, MD, and Nexray Medical Imaging as defendants.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

For patients who had neuroradiological trauma CT scans, researchers noted no significant visual differences between deep learning denoising at 25% mAs and iterative reconstruction at 100% mAs.

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ScienceDaily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Researchers found that X-rays of the kidneys using gold nanoparticles as a contrast agent might be more accurate in detecting kidney disease than standard laboratory blood tests.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The CDC estimates that just under 7% of adults in the United States continue to struggle with symptoms of long COVID.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

When physicians want to know more about a patient's risk of cardiovascular disease, they can order a cardiac stress test. But when it comes to risk of stroke, there is no equivalent scalable and cost-effective test of the brain's function to help physicians counsel patients on their potential risk. A questionnaire that asks patients about contributing risk factors is currently the best tool for estimating such risk.

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Radiology Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The Silicon Valley-based startup is working to commercialize a handheld platform that incorporates robotics, artificial intelligence, imaging and virtual connectivity.

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Diagnostic Imaging

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Results from a multicenter phase 3 trial showed that the PET/CT imaging agent (89Zr)Zr-girentuximab had an 85.5 percent mean sensitivity rate for the diagnosis of clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Spiritual beliefs and a distrust of clinical research may partly explain why Black patients choose not to participate in cancer trials, according to research presented September 30 at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting. In a recent survey of patients in Baltimore, MD, Black people were more than five times as likely to agree with statements that death or illnesses were determined by God’s will and that God, not research, determined wellness, reported Charlyn Gomez

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UCSF Biomedical Imaging

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

As part of our celebration of Postdoc Appreciation Week, we invited two postdocs, Minhao Zhou, PhD , and Tamara Vasilkovska, MD, PhD, to answer a few questions about their work and their time at UCSF.

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Health Imaging

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A new lawsuit alleges that the LAPD staked out an imaging center due to its higher than usual energy consumption and a “distinct odor” of cannabis coming from the facility.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Imagine building a traffic surveillance camera that could detect trouble-making cells speeding around in your brain before their cellular gang could commit "crimes." Most importantly, this camera could catch some of the biggest interlopers of all—cancer cells.

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Radiology Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The software could opportunistically screen patients at a smaller cost than other interventions, given it automatically operates "in the background" on radiographs performed for other reasons.

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Diagnostic Imaging

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

A new meta-analysis found that PSMA PET/CT offers a 12 percent higher positivity rate for detecting biochemical recurrence of PCa and a 19 percent higher positivity rate for identifying lymph node metastasis in comparison to mpMRI.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

German engineer and physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen has come to life in an AI-generated video in which he explains why he named his 1895 discovery “x-rays.” The clip, published on Vimeo and made available in a September 15 article in Cureus , illustrates how AI-powered multimedia technologies present a transformative opportunity in radiology, according to its creators.

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UCSF Biomedical Imaging

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

During Women in Medicine Month we’re proud to honor the clinicians, researchers, and educators who are advancing radiology. From exceptional patient care to teaching and discovery, we’re spotlighting the significant contributions of women at UCSF Radiology & Biomedical Imaging and sharing their experiences, reflections, and insights as women in medicine.

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Health Imaging

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

As part of efforts to address staffing shortages, the American Society of Radiologic Technologists is holding a virtual career fair focused on radiation therapy jobs on Sept. 26.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The brain and spinal cord are the central pillars of the human central nervous system (CNS), orchestrating everything from movement to sensation. Despite significant advances in neuroscience, our understanding of how these two crucial components of the CNS interact remains limited.

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Radiology Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

OA impacts more than 595M people worldwide and produces $80B in healthcare costs in the U.S. alone, experts detailed in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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Diagnostic Imaging

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In a study involving 396 confirmed neuroendocrine tumor liver metastases, researchers found that Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI offered 19 percent higher sensitivity than polyenergetic CT.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Automated CT-based AI tools can visualize biomarkers of body composition changes in patients using Ozempic (semaglutide) for diabetes type 2 treatment or obesity, according to a study published September 10 in the American Journal of Roentgenology. These changes are beyond what can be evaluated by clinical measures such as weight and waist circumference, wrote a team led by Leslie W.

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ScienceDaily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Researchers report significant strides in enhancing early diagnosis of bipolar disorder in adolescents. They demonstrate the efficacy of integrating multimodal MRI with behavioral assessments for greater diagnostic precision. Bipolar disorder is a severe neuropsychiatric condition that often emerges during adolescence and is characterized by extreme mood swings.

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Health Imaging

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

“Positioned as an extension of traditional examination methods, particularly appealing to the upcoming generation of clinicians, it holds promise in potentially replacing the stethoscope in various medical assessments and procedures.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

An ultrasound test that detected 96% of ovarian cancers in postmenopausal women should replace the current standard of care test in the UK according to a new study.

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Radiology Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Specialty societies such as the American College of Radiology are asking lawmakers to reform the federal payment program to end years of negative updates.

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Diagnostic Imaging

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Offering higher diagnostic efficacy than SPECT imaging for coronary artery disease (CAD) detection, the PET myocardial perfusion imaging agent Flyrcado™ (flurpiridaz F 18, GE HealthCare) provides unit dose availability and effectiveness in imaging patients with high BMI.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

F-18 fibroblast activation protein inhibitor (FAPI) PET/CT leads to significant upstaging in newly diagnosed breast cancer, according to research published September 5 in Academic Radiology. A team led by Liu Junzhi, PhD, from the China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University in Changchun, China, found that the modality leads to upstaging at a higher rate than that of F-18 FDG PET/CT.

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Open Medscience

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Regulatory radiopharmaceutical production requires strict adherence to safety standards, ensuring quality and patient safety. The post Regulatory Considerations in Radiopharmaceutical Production appeared first on Open MedScience.

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