Consumers’ familiarity with a medical imaging test is directly correlated with the likelihood they will agree to the test when recommended by a physician, according to a Siemens Healthcare news ...

A study conducted at NYU Langone Medical Center finds that unnecessary radiation in cardiac stress tests costs $500 million a year and causes nearly 500 cases of cancer. Greater use of ultrasound or ...

Heart imaging tests provide a picture of the heart, blood vessels, and surrounding tissue to help diagnose and monitor conditions that affect this organ. A doctor can use the images from these tests ...

A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham has found that artificial intelligence (AI) language models like ChatGPT can accurately identify appropriate imaging services for two important ...

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA — A new study provides a glimpse of the shift over the past decade in the number of requests for nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) tests to determine areas of the heart with ...

A study published in Archives of Internal Medicine found that imaging tests helped physicians make a diagnosis in only one in three cases, according to a Reuters report. The researchers studied ...

Uterine cancer starts in the uterus. Doctors can order several tests, including blood and imaging tests, to diagnose and monitor the progression of this cancer. Cancer can form in two parts of the ...

(Reuters) - A study suggests some younger Americans may be getting too many imaging tests that expose them to worrisome amounts of radiation, which over a lifetime may raise their risk of cancer. Here ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Health care utilization was higher for women with vs. without chronic pelvic pain. Women with vs. without ...

In recent years direct ownership of physician practices by hospitals and health systems (that is, vertical integration) has become a prominent feature of the US health care system. One unexplored ...