ScienceDaily

JANUARY 3, 2024

Research team draws up criteria for PET-based examinations of malignant brain tumors.

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 4, 2024

Researchers discovered potential brain damage in both college and professional players.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

ChatGPT has been tested for one full year now. Those passionate about its possibilities and its risks are now comparing it to more recent GPT releases and noting improvements. Throughout 2023, AuntMinnie.com has kept you informed about how GPT has been incorporated into various types of radiology department activities for research. As a new year begins, we asked radiologists to weigh in on what has impressed them most and what might be next for GPT.

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 5, 2024

Geraldine McGinty, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine, explains how practices can retain radiologists during the Great Resignation in healthcare.

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Amidst rising cancer prevalence and soaring costs, new cancer technologies and innovations are emerging to support the early detection, treatment, and surveillance of cancer. Read this guide to understand how to evaluate these solutions for your employees and members – and to learn more about the current state of coverage, clinical and cost effectiveness, and impact on quality and outcomes.

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Ben White

JANUARY 5, 2024

A brief and hopefully final private equity in radiology post for now. I assure you no one starts a blog during their first year of medical school in 2009 and says, one day I hope to p**s on organized medicine and large corporations as a hobby forever. With that said… § The ACR runs a large and presumably quite profitable job forum. (I believe they outsource its management to a third-party company, but it’s on their website, and their branding is all over it.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 3, 2024

Infants with enlarged perivascular spaces have a more than two-fold greater chance of developing autism compared with infants with normal perivascular spaces, according to researchers from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. "These results suggest that perivascular spaces could serve as an early marker for autism," said study lead author Dea Garic, PhD, in a statement released January 2 by the university.

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 3, 2024

The noted academic institution trimmed about 3 minutes from the manual feedback-sharing process while also bolstering feelings of appreciation among its imaging team.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JANUARY 2, 2024

The presence of pericardial effusion on chest computed tomography (CT) was associated with a 56 percent higher 30-day mortality risk in men with COVID-19 but had no impact on the prognosis for women with COVID-19, according to newly published research.

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 2, 2024

Two AI developers have announced new agreements with the academic medical center, both related to improving the delivery of oncology services.

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Patient-centric scheduling can only be achieved through optimized radiology workflows, effective communications between staff and physicians, and, of course, through specialized schedulers. In this guide, we’ll take you through a step-by-step process to transform your radiology center into a high-performance hub of medical imaging.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 5, 2024

The impending diagnostic radiology oral exam should be welcomed for aspiring radiologists, according to an article published January 5 in Academic Radiology. A team led by Samantha Pfiffner from Wayne State University in Detroit wrote in its editorial that the oral exam, scheduled to start in 2028, will provide opportunities for a more comprehensive evaluation of radiologists.

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 4, 2024

The nation’s largest healthcare corporation has made an offer for the Corvallis Clinic in Oregon, which has 11 locations across the state's Willamette Valley.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JANUARY 4, 2024

In a recent proof-of-concept trial assessing the combination of aducanumab infusion with MRI-guided focused ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier, researchers found significant reductions in amyloid-beta load at 26 weeks in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 2, 2024

EndoSound says its system will make endoscopic ultrasounds more accessible.

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About 40% of us will be diagnosed with cancer in our lifetime, and patients are getting younger. At the same time, the cost of treatment continues to rise, with employers spending 8.5% more on cancer care for each employee than they did last year. The best thing employers can do for their employees and business tomorrow is to invest in cancer detection and care today.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 3, 2024

PET/CT scans have the potential to predict brain metastasis in melanoma patients, according to a study published December 26 in Cancers. In a retrospective study, a team at the University Hospital Salzburg in Austria studied baseline F-18 FDG-PET/CT imaging parameters in patients with melanoma and found they were associated with the development of metastatic brain tumors.

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 2, 2024

The alert comes with "negative implications," analysts noted, given heightened risk the company could fall behind on its payments or seek a distressed debt exchange.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Researchers have created a new brain imaging method that allows mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBIs) to be diagnosed, even when existing imaging techniques like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) don't show any structural abnormalities. The technique involves loading gadolinium, a standard MRI contrast agent, into hydrogel-based micropatches that are attached to immune cells called macrophages.

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 5, 2024

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University asked the chatbot about common findings from core-needle biopsies.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

RadNet executives will spend the next 18 months learning what does and doesn't work for operating small in-store retail breast cancer screening clinics in three areas of the U.S. In early December 2023, the first of RadNet's three pilot MammogramNow clinics opened in a Walmart Supercenter in Milford, DE. Two more screening clinics are planned to open in 2024 in Walmart: one in Phoenix, AZ, the other in Hanford, CA, according to the company.

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 5, 2024

HHS hopes to create new disincentives for providers who knowingly and unreasonably interfere with the exchange of health information.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JANUARY 2, 2024

In a study assessing the use of a genetic risk stratification model to estimate breast cancer risk in over 25,000 women, researchers found that 0.69 percent of women at low genetic risk were diagnosed with breast cancer by the age of 45 and 1.41 percent of this group were diagnosed by the age of 58.

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 3, 2024

The device connects to an ultrasound machine and sends images to any smartphone.

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Explore the latest insights from the American Cancer Society's “Cancer Statistics 2024” report, which unveils multiple alarming trends in cancer data. Cancer is on the rise among young adults, and diagnoses for 6 of the 10 most common cancers are escalating. With over 2 million new cancer cases projected in the U.S. this year, employers face increased challenges when it comes to supporting employees.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

ChatGPT-4 consistently produces clinical vignettes that stereotype certain races, ethnicities, and genders, according to a study published in the January issue of The Lancet: Digital Health. The findings highlight an urgent need for comprehensive and transparent bias assessments of LLM tools such as GPT-4 before they are integrated into clinical care, wrote a team led by Travis Zack, PhD, of the University of California, San Francisco.

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 2, 2024

Ronald J. Bienias, MBA, of consulting firm AlixPartners—who is already Akumin’s chief restructuring officer—will serve as interim chief financial officer.

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Ben White

JANUARY 4, 2024

From “ How to Do Great Work ” by Paul Graham: Schools also give you a misleading impression of what work is like. In school they tell you what the problems are, and they’re almost always soluble using no more than you’ve been taught so far. In real life you have to figure out what the problems are, and you often don’t know if they’re soluble at all.

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 5, 2024

Scientists may have turned their criminal forensics research into an accurate alternative to screening mammography.

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