Radiology MOC

About 20% of participants older than 60 years in a new study had amyloid accumulations.
Medscape Medical News

Drug addicts and their non-addicted siblings share certain features in the brain, suggesting a susceptibility to addiction is inherited but is also a flaw that can be overcome.
Reuters Health Information

Dr. John Marshall says that his efficiency as a clinician is undermined as he spends more and more time entering data into the EMR with less and less administrative support. Is there a way out?
Medscape Hematology-Oncology

Just 28 percent of those surveyed believe the justices will base their decision on the mandate without regard to politics and ideology, according to the survey.
Kaiser Health News

Ongoing epidemiological studies in children who have undergone CT scans should help provide a better understanding of radiation-associated cancer risks from cardiac imaging over the next few years.
Heartwire

The negative predictive value is a great aid clinically, says researcher.
Medscape Medical News

Freezing Medicare rates through 2022 at current level would cost $316 billion, but military pullouts in Afghanistan and other countries will free up far more money, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Medscape Medical News

What findings were most significantly associated with long-term morbidity and death?
Medscape Radiology

Roughly 211,500 physicians were hospital employees in 2010, a 34% increase since 2000. The trend illustrates how medicine is turning the corner from cottage industry to big business.
Medscape Medical News

An 85-year-old man is brought to the ED with severe, radiating abdominal pain that began 2 hours ago. The patient has nausea and felt light-headed at the onset of the pain. What is the diagnosis?
Medscape

New software improves the early detection of lung cancer inexpensively.
Medscape Medical News

A new study used molecular profiling to look at breast cancer from today and from 20 years ago.
Medscape Medical News

Dr. Kathy Miller reports on a new look at an old study that indicates how to identify DCIS patients at sufficiently low risk for local recurrence such that they do not need radiation after lumpectomy.
Medscape Hematology-Oncology

Learn what issues in image-guided intervention can harm physician performance and outcomes.
Medscape General Surgery

If lawmakers repeal Medicare's sustainable growth rate formula, beneficiaries will see a rise in their premiums, or else the cost of the "doc fix" will increase by 25%, a new study warns.
Medscape Medical News

Size is the typical imaging measure of a breast cancer tumor, but should molecular biology be considered as well?
Medscape Radiology

The latest recession officially ended in June 2009, but its aftershocks continue to dampen demand for healthcare in general and physician services in particular, according to CMS.
Medscape Medical News

Do methodology problems underlie clinical trials that conclude that mammography screening is a failure?
Medscape Radiology

It's not unusual for one spouse to be a spender, while the other is focused on saving. Fights over money are a huge factor in the success of a relationship. Here's how to work out your differences.
Medscape Business of Medicine

A new ADNI report shows that reduced cortical thickness on MRI in healthy, cognitively normal individuals may be an early predictor of Alzheimer’s disease.
Medscape Medical News