Latest - Radiology

• Doctor's Illegal Opioid Prescriptions Lead to 5 Deaths: Officials Alaskan family physician sentenced to 34 months in prison, probation; Texas hospital CEO and seven docs settle kickback allegations; practice administrator sentenced for fraudulent prescriptions.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, January 26, 2022
• Inflammation in Migraine...or Not...: A Critical Evaluation Does inflammation play a role in migraine...or is the term being used too loosely? This commentary examines the evidence for and against the inflammation hypothesis.
  Headache, January 26, 2022
• Improving Health Equity Means Fixing Structural Barriers: Experts Three distinguished healthcare experts recently discussed how healthcare can live up to its ethical obligations to all patients.
  Medscape Medical News, January 25, 2022
• 94% of Nurses Say There's Racism in Healthcare: Survey Nursing leaders encourage healthcare settings to confront individual, systemic racism to drive change.
  Medscape Medical News, January 25, 2022
• Distinguishing Frontotemporal Dementia From 'Phenocopy' Mimics Distinguishing behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) from non-neurodegenerative nonprogressor, 'phenocopy' mimics of frontal lobe dysfunction can be a challenging clinical dilemma.
  First Look, January 24, 2022
• Prostate Cancer e-Tumor Boards: Case 1: Unfavorable Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer   This case focuses on a 62-year-old man with a PSA check of 18.77. He was referred to a urologist who performed a digital rectal examination, and there was an area of induration within the left prosthetic apex consistent with clinical stage T2a disease.
  Medscape, January 24, 2022
• The Other Ventricle With Left Ventricular Assist Devices Left ventricular assist devices are an integral part of management of advanced heart failure, but should we be paying more attention to right ventricular function in patients with LVADs?
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology, January 24, 2022
• MRI Predicts Response to VEGF Inhibitor in Recurrent Glioblastoma Predicting the response to therapy comes down to contrast enhancing patterns on the pretreatment MRI, a new study suggests. The study was published as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.
  First Look, January 21, 2022
• Physician Burnout & Depression Report 2022: Stress, Anxiety, and Anger Physicians had a rough year in 2021, with many feeling more burned out and stressed than they ever have before. Here's what more than 13,000 doctors had to say.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, January 21, 2022
• Nurse Workforce Decline During COVID 'Unprecedented': Study A national study of nurse employment during the first 15 months of the pandemic shows first major decline in healthcare staffing in at least 30 years.
  Medscape Medical News, January 21, 2022
• Physician Burnout, Depression Compounded by COVID: Survey Doctors were already struggling with burnout; the COVID-19 pandemic didn't help.
  Medscape Medical News, January 21, 2022
• Adjuvant Chemo Should Be Used in Gynecologic Carcinosarcoma Patients with gynecologic carcinosarcoma benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy following surgery, even if they have early-stage disease, indicates a "very important'" analysis of registry data.
  Medscape Medical News, January 20, 2022
• Radiological Case: Retroperitoneal Ancient Schwannoma What did imaging studies reveal about this patient's ovarian masses? Review the clinical characteristics of ancient schwannomas in this case study.
  Applied Radiology, January 20, 2022
• Repeat CT: Unraveling Plaque Changes in CAD With Elevated Lp(a) The study "represents the beginning of our understanding of the role of Lp(a) in plaque progression," leading experts in lipoprotein(a) say.
  Medscape Medical News, January 19, 2022
• New Guidance on Consent in Acute Ischemic Stroke The American Academy of Neurology has issued a new position statement on "Consent Issues in the Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke," the first update in more than 20 years.
  Medscape Medical News, January 19, 2022
• ILD Screening in Rheumatic Diseases: Strategies to Consider Two experts from Hospital for Special Surgery review the current landscape and evidence for interstitial lung disease screening in patients with connective tissue diseases.
  Hospital for Special Surgery, January 19, 2022
• 3D Printing + VR Aid Anesthesiologists in Complex Cases Utilizing these modeling technologies improved communication between providers and reduced trauma to the patient.
  Medscape Medical News, January 19, 2022
• Overdiagnosis, Misleading 5-Year Lung Cancer Survival in Taiwan A push to increase lung cancer screening among a largely nonsmoking Asian female population led to significant overdiagnosis and dubiously high 5-year survival rates, researchers in Taiwan report.
  Medscape Medical News, January 19, 2022
• Motor Imagery Promising in Motor Rehabilitation in Parkinson's Future studies are needed to develop specific motor imagery protocols.
  First Look, January 19, 2022
• First-Year Follow-up of Chronic Nonbacterial Osteomyelitis What have we learned about the disease course of pediatric patients with chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis?
  Arthritis Research & Therapy, January 19, 2022