A 62-year-old Pennsylvania man has become the first in the world to be implanted with a neurotransmitter that both blocks spinal pain and safely stands up to MRI scanning, according to The Intelligencer of Doylestown, Pa. 

Hologic has launched its Affirm prone biopsy system in the European market. The system, which boasts both 2D and 3D capabilities for use in image-guided biopsies of the breast, was unveiled at the 2016 European Congress of Radiology.

Over the past 25 years, abstracts and full-text articles in the medical literature have done a better job of including the P value for specific findings. However, this doesn't mean there aren't still some common statistical oversights, according to a study published online March 15 in JAMA.

Ultrasound is fine for flagging pregnant women who may be at risk of delivering their babies prematurely, but diffusion-weighted MRI can do better, accurately capturing subtle biomarkers of impending spontaneous delivery in asymptomatic women.

As concerns continue to mount over the potential spread of Zika to new regions and increased populations, those within science and healthcare are scrambling to learn as much as possible about the virus and its impact on human health, according to recent coverage from the New England Journal of Medicine.

A new method of imaging the lower back using a noninvasive vibration technology called structural health monitoring (SHM) can distinguish functional changes in the spine and could help curb overuse of lumbar MRI, according to results of a study published online in Nature: Scientific Reports.

Care must be used when evaluating imaging results of supplemental breast ultrasound used in tandem with traditional mammography screening to avoid excessive false-positive rates and retain specificity, according to results of a new study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

By systematically analyzing the root causes of radiation-dose outliers—those with volumetric or dose-length product values higher than the 99th percentile and less than the first percentile in a large cohort—University of Toronto researchers were able to pinpoint corrective actions for CT scanning at a 463-bed teaching hospital.