I grew up believing that you get what you pay for. Look for sales, not knockoffs. Buy inexpensive, not cheap. Those were my shopping tenets, handed down by parents who lived through the Great Depression. After many years of believing this, I’m sorry to say the tenets may not actually hold, at least... More »
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) believes one PET scan is enough when doing a patient’s initial treatment evaluation, but seven medical imaging groups disagree. More »
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A new research center for MR-guided focused ultrasound ablation at the University of Virginia is aiming to become a leader in translational and clinical research for emerging interventional procedures. More »
In a time and age when complex studies can be interpreted remotely for dimes on the dollar and sent back to the source within minutes, teleradiology's appeal to hospitals is greater than ever. More »
Radiologists are not the only ones feeling the pinch from Medicare. Their colleagues on the radiation oncology side of the fence stand to lose out as well, if proposed Medicare rules go through – and the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is kicking up some dust about it. More »
A new outreach program allows radiologists from around the world to view selected practical educational articles from peer-reviewed journals online at no charge. More »
Mention Switzerland and most people will think of mountains. Because the country will have its first ever ECR president in March, it is no great surprise that the symbol of the congress is one of the world’s most famous peaks: the Matterhorn. More »
