As National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month comes to a close, it’s important to remember that the disease is an increasingly important public health issue, and effective treatments to prevent fragility fractures are available.
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Just this week, the New York Times published an op-ed by Angelina Jolie entitled 'My Medical Choice' on her decision to undergo a double mastectomy after discovering she was a carrier the “faulty” gene, BRCA1. The gene, which sharply increases a carriers risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer, affects each of its female carriers differently.
A study published in Radiology and highlighted on TIME’s Healthland finds that coronary CT angiography may be a better predictor of heart attack risk than cholesterol tests and blood pressure readings.
Laws requiring that women be notified of their mammographic breast density now exist in six states. In California this law took effect on April 1, 2013. From that date forward, whenever a radiologist interprets a mammogram and reports that a woman has dense breasts, the woman must receive a letter from the imaging facility explaining that her breast tissue is dense.
Computed Tomography (CT)The Radiation Safety and Computed Tomography Virtual Symposium will go live online this week -- May 8th-10th, 2013. The unique event will provide a wealth of information for anyone interested in the topic of patient safety. The curriculum is specifically tailored to different audiences, including physicians, technologists, medical physicists, nurses, medical students, researchers, radiology administrators, and anyone who wants to understand the issues regarding CT radiation dose and strategies to improve the safety and utilization of CT.
An article from NPR’s Shots discusses the oft unanswered question: What exactly does a radiologist do? At a presentation at the 2012 RSNA annual meeting, it was revealed that only about half of the 300 patients surveyed upon receiving a CT scan knew that radiologists are in fact physicians.