Same Hospital, Different Prices for Imaging Exams?
(MedPage Today) -- Commercially negotiated prices for common imaging exams vary sharply within the same hospital, with prices that in some cases are substantially higher relative to Medicare, researchers found.
Across various insurance plans... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - October 19, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Neoadjuvant CRT Tied to Survival Benefit in Older Rectal Cancer Patients
(MedPage Today) -- Neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy (CRT) followed by surgical resection was associated with a survival benefit in elderly patients with locally advanced rectal cancer compared with other treatment sequences, according to a retrospective... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - October 6, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Persistent Pulmonary Dysfunction Seen in Kids With COVID
(MedPage Today) -- Low-field MRI showed persistent pulmonary dysfunction in children and adolescents who either recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection or had long COVID, a small study showed.
In a prospective clinical trial, 54 children and adolescents... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - September 22, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
10-Year Follow-Up Confirms Benefit of Chemoradiotherapy in MIBC Patients
(MedPage Today) -- Long-term results confirmed that the benefit of adding chemotherapy to radiotherapy was maintained in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) in a follow-up to the phase III randomized BC2001 trial.
Over a median... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - September 1, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Pendulum Swings Back for FFR-Guided Complete Revascularization
(MedPage Today) -- BARCELONA -- For the complete revascularization of heart attack patients with multivessel disease, the decision whether to intervene on each nonculprit lesion was better guided by fractional flow reserve (FFR) rather than angiography... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - August 29, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Patients With Head/Neck Cancer See Lower Stroke Risk With Initial Surgery
(MedPage Today) -- In oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC), the type of initial treatment appears to influence the likelihood of stroke in the years afterward, researchers said.
A population-based study of U.S. veterans treated for OPSCC... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - August 12, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Non-Heavy Smokers Still at High Risk of Lung Cancer
(MedPage Today) -- Older smokers not subject to routine low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening were found to have 10 times the risk of lung cancer compared to never smokers, a cohort study found.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - July 28, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Can Longstanding BP Meds Protect Against Brain Aneurysm Ruptures?
(MedPage Today) -- The chances of intracranial aneurysms rupturing were lower in people taking renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) inhibitors for hypertension, a Chinese study showed.
In a multicenter database counting over 3,000 people... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - June 6, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Anticoagulation Goes Head-to-Head With DAPT After Valve Surgery
(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- In an open-label, randomized study, treatment with the direct oral anticoagulant edoxaban was not significantly more efficient in preventing complications of leaflet thrombosis following transcatheter aortic-valve... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - April 6, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Cardiac Monitoring Finds Arrhythmias, but Treatment Did Not Improve Outcomes
(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- While monitoring for arrhythmias in high-risk patients following myocardial infarction (MI) commonly detected rhythm events requiring treatment within 2 years, treatment did not lead to better outcomes, according... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - April 5, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
USPSTF's Lung Cancer Screening Recs Tied to Thousands Fewer Deaths
(MedPage Today) -- Significantly more cases of early non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) were caught following the introduction of low-dose CT screening recommendations nearly a decade ago, a quasi-experimental study found.
After the U.S. Preventive... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - April 1, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
3D Mammograms Deliver Fewer False-Positive Findings
(MedPage Today) -- Breast cancer screening with digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), or "3D mammography," was associated with a lower probability of false-positive findings compared with standard digital mammography, investigators found.
Their... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - March 25, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
ACC Issues Playbook for Long COVID With Cardiac Involvement
(MedPage Today) -- People with long COVID and cardiovascular symptoms may now follow a prescribed path for evaluation and treatment recommended by the American College of Cardiology (ACC).
According to the new guidance, people with post-acute... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - March 16, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Small Airways Disease Persists in Long COVID Patients
(MedPage Today) -- dCT imaging of patients with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), more commonly known as long COVID, revealed that small airways disease persisted months after infection, a prospective single-center study showed.
In chest... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - March 15, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Fluorescence-Guided Lumpectomy Shows Promise
(MedPage Today) -- A fluorescence-guided imaging system could improve intraoperative detection of residual breast cancer in women undergoing lumpectomy, a prospective single-arm study suggested.
The system, which incorporates the activatable fluorescent... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - March 11, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
