PACS technology has worked wonders improving efficiency in radiology, but it’s doing a number on radiologists’ relationships with people whose work falls within, or reaches into, the imaging circle. 

The FDA has given Medtronic the go-ahead to market an MRI-compatible product in their line of valves and shunts for patients with hydrocephalus and cerebrospinal fluid disorders, many of whom regularly require MR scans.

Radiologists Benjamin Gray, MD, and Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD, have laid out an intriguing synthesis of their contemplations on their profession with the thoughts of the French historian, philosopher and critic of modernity Michel Foucault (1926–1984).

Lacking hospitals, rural villagers in India needed a mobile imaging clinic to screen women for cancers and osteoporosis. Absent a medical school, the islanders of Cape Verde off the coast of Africa needed trained radiologists and techs to show people how to take and read x-rays. 

It’s been a busy week in the world of breast cancer screening research, with study results increasing our collective understanding of how best to use certain screening modalities and imaging protocols, as well as newly enacted legislation at the state level requiring women to be notified of potential risks related to dense breast tissues.

Compared with radiologic technologists who have never performed fluoroscopically guided interventional procedures, those who have done so seem to be at markedly increased risk of dying from brain cancer and at moderately increased risk of developing melanoma and breast cancer.

Oklahoma has joined an increasing number of states with breast density reporting laws with the signing of House Bill 2601, which requires healthcare facilities to include density information on mammography reports and notify women with dense breasts of potential cancer risks.

A handful of undergraduate students from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore are working on a very special class project this semester: improving breast cancer treatment in South Africa.