A jury in Georgia has pinned 60% of the blame for a stroke patient’s permanent whole-body paralysis on an ER physician and 40% on a radiologist—while clearing all other clinicians who had a hand in the catastrophic episode of care.

A California hospital is not liable for negligence or elder abuse, both of which were civilly charged by a man who sustained second-degree burns while undergoing an MRI scan.

Charles E. Kahn, Jr., MD, MS, editor of the the RSNA  journal Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, and professor and vice chair of radiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, discusses the need to validate AI algorithms with your own patient population data.  

In the U.K., two instances of evidently inept work by radiologists are inadvertently spotlighting the value of subspecialized image interpretation in socially sensitive patient cases.

Should patients read their radiology reports ahead of the doctor who ordered the exam? That’s not a new question. It was supposed to have been settled in the affirmative by the 21st Century Cures Act.

The Federal Aviation Administration assesses pilots for five “hazardous attitudes” that may forewarn of risky behaviors in the air. Therapeutic radiology researchers have adapted the FAA scale for radiation oncologists making treatment decisions.

A genetically engineered iteration of the herpes simplex virus has beaten back several advanced cancers in an early trial.

A pharmaceutical compound approved 21 years ago to treat breast cancer in postmenopausal women is showing fresh promise as a therapy for glioblastomas.