7 ways to reduce healthcare disparities in radiology
Healthcare disparities continue to plague medical imaging, but there are concrete measures radiologists can take to mitigate them, according to a paper published on October 12 in RadioGraphics."Radiologists and radiology practices can become active partners in efforts to assist patients along their imaging journey and overcome existing barriers to equitable cancer screening care for traditionally marginalized populations," wrote a group led by Peter Abraham, MD, of the University of California, San Diego.Avoidable differences in disease burden and outcomes that socially disadvantaged individuals may experience manifest in ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - October 16, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Practice Management Source Type: news
6 Stories Show the Human Toll of Poland ’ s Strict Abortion Laws
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Krzysztof Sowinski has cried every day since his wife Marta, who was five months pregnant, died of sepsis in 2022; he believes doctors put Marta’s life in danger by not giving them the option to terminate the pregnancy while the fetus’ heart was still beating. Janusz Kucharski also lost his partner Justyna to sepsis in the fifth month of a pregnancy. She left behind two boys.
It is likely, reproductive-rights advocates say, that these women would be alive if not for Poland’s increasingly restrictive abort...
Source: TIME: Health - October 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Anna Pamula Tags: Uncategorized abortion Source Type: news
Combined ultrasound, MRI characterizes nonmass-like breast lesions
Combining ultrasound with MRI could help better differentiate between benign and malignant breast nonmass-like lesions initially detected on ultrasound, a study published October 12 in Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology found. Researchers led by Rui-Lan Niu, PhD, from the Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing, China, found that their combined method led to improved performance in this area over each modality alone.
“The study determined that the integrated diagnostic strategy had good performance in the diagnosis of nonmass-like lesions, which can improve diagnostic specificity while maintaining high sensitivity,” Ni...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - October 13, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Clinical News Womens Imaging Breast Source Type: news
Advancing ultrasound microvessel imaging and AI to improve cancer detection
Ultrasound — a technology that uses sound waves to produce an image — is commonly used to monitor the development of a baby as it grows inside its mother. But ultrasound imaging also can be used to investigate suspicious masses of tissue and nodules that may be cancerous. Tumors consist not only of cancer cells but also a matrix of small blood vessels, or microvessels, that cannot be seen in the images produced by conventional ultrasound… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - October 13, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Lavage + Steroid No Benefit in Calcific Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy
THURSDAY, Oct. 12, 2023 -- For patients with calcific rotator cuff tendinopathy of the shoulder, there is no benefit for ultrasound-guided lavage with a corticosteroid injection or for sham lavage with a corticosteroid injection versus sham... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - October 12, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
