Clinical Use of Liver-Specific Contrast Agents The European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR) formed a multinational European panel of experts, selected on the basis of a literature review and their leadership in the field of liver magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, to develop a consensus and provide updated recommendations...
READ MOREMen Lag Behind In an ideal world, there is no answer to the common question of what we would recommend men of all ages to do or change in their lifestyles to reduce the prospects of prostate cancer. Unfortunately, we don’t know what causes prostate cancer, but what we do know is that a healthy lifestyle (equilibrated food and healthy exercise)...
READ MOREClinical Trial to Test If MRI Can Replace Current Standard of Care A team of scientists in Canada has secured funding for a three-year Phase III clinical trial focused on improving the way we biopsy for prostate cancer and whether magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can replace the current standard of care to diagnose prostate cancer. The...
READ MOREAn Overview The Iranian Society of Radiology (ISR ) is the largest in the Middle East and Levant region, with the only other country with more radiologists in this area being Turkey. Presently, there are about 2,400 radiologists practicing in Iran – the Iranian society was founded in 1966 and is now one the largest and best organised...
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READ MOREHassen A. Gharbi from Tunisia was recognised at ECR 2016 in Vienna for being “the first paediatric radiologist in northern Africa” receiving the honorary membership exactly 50 years since he graduated from France. In his brief acceptance speech, Dr Gharbi praised members of the European Society of Radiology for their support all these years, in particular former...
READ MORETHE HEALTH SECTOR’S CYBER -HYGIENE EPIDEMIC Nietzsche said, “ All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity ”. Unfortunately, for the health sector the issues of ransomware, malware and hackers must worsen before things improve. This is not a sadistic estimation; rather, it...
READ MOREDoes Changing The Order Of Second Mammograms Reduce Detection? A study in the UK, where two film readers independently evaluate each mammogram for signs of cancer, has found that changing the order of examination between two sets of readings did not result in any significant difference in detecting breast cancer. The study, published in...
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