AI Diagnoses Deadly Disease; Radiology's New AI Guidance; WHO Tackles LMMs A monthly roundup of healthcare-focused AI news and research Jan 25, 2024
Two-Stage Screening Strategy for Ovarian Cancer Continues to Show Progress Large study shows stage shift, high specificity, increasing PPV over 21 years Jan 24, 2024
Is Adding an AI Readout to Mammography Worth It? Women would have to pay out-of-pocket, as reimbursement is a long way off Jan 24, 2024
New Standard for Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma? Adding durvalumab and bevacizumab to transarterial chemoembolization almost doubles PFS Jan 21, 2024
FDA Clears AI-Powered Non-Invasive Skin Cancer Detector Intended for use in primary care, handheld device is first of its kind Jan 17, 2024
Breast Cancer Mortality Reduced by 58% Over Past Four Decades Modeling study suggests advances in treatment played largest role, followed by screening Jan 16, 2024
Hypofractionated Chemoradiation With Adaptive SABR Appeared Effective in NSCLC Dose of 70 Gy in 15 fractions showed favorable balance between safety and efficacy in small trial Jan 12, 2024
Exercise ECGs Highly Specific for Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction Reconsidering the humble testing modality's false-positive issue Jan 08, 2024
Opening Blood-Brain Barrier to Deliver Alzheimer's Drug Shows Promise Focused ultrasound helped aducanumab reduce amyloid-beta levels Jan 03, 2024
Cancer Patients Face Frightening Delays in Treatment Approvals "For them to take weeks -- up to months -- to provide an authorization is ridiculous" Dec 30, 2023
Oral Factor XIa Inhibitor Disappoints for Secondary Stroke Prevention Milvexian did not reduce strokes or covert brain infarcts in AXIOMATIC-SSP Dec 28, 2023
'Medicare for All' Candidate in 2024; Exploding MRI Machine; Doc Convicted of Murder Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Dec 21, 2023
Explanations Don't Help Clinicians Spot Biased AI Biased AI predictions tanked diagnostic accuracy, and model explanations didn't bring it back up Dec 19, 2023
Is Omitting Radiation Therapy in Low-Risk Breast Cancer a Good IDEA? Local recurrence rate of 1% at 5 years in women ages 50-69 with genomically low-risk disease Dec 08, 2023
De-Escalating Breast Cancer Treatment Feasible After Response to Neoadjuvant Chemo Study showed no increase in disease progression when omitting regional nodal irradiation Dec 07, 2023
Alzheimer's Blood Test Predicts Who Might Benefit Most From Anti-Amyloid Drugs Novel two-cutoff approach may reduce need for confirmatory PET scans Dec 05, 2023
TULSA Effective in Controlling Prostate Cancer Long-Term At 5 years, median PSA was reduced by 90% Dec 05, 2023
Breast Cancer Screening Frequency Makes a Big Survival Difference Keeping those mammogram appointments is life-saving, study finds Nov 30, 2023
Deep-Learning Model Shows Promise for ADHD Diagnosis in Teens AI algorithm identified significant differences in nine brain white matter tracts Nov 30, 2023
AI Model Can Predict Breast Cancer Risk Regardless of Patient's Race Algorithm proved accurate where traditional risk models have failed, but needs more testing Nov 30, 2023
With an Old X-Ray, AI Can Detect High Risk of Lung Cancer in Never Smokers Tool could identify nonsmokers most likely to benefit from low-dose CT screening Nov 29, 2023
Stronger Quads May Lower Risk for Knee Replacement Surgery Higher quadricep-hamstring ratio associated with 82% lower odds in NIH cohort Nov 29, 2023
Common Headaches May Be Pains in the Neck Imaging links inflammation to migraine and tension headaches Nov 29, 2023
COVID Tied to Changes in Brain Microstructure Alterations seen in both long COVID patients and those who recovered from infection Nov 28, 2023
Diagnostic Imaging Not Yet Enough for Biopsy-Free Radical Prostatectomy Study validates concerns about benign prostatic hyperplasia-related PSMA-PET false positives Nov 27, 2023
HPV Tumor DNA May Offer Early Warning of Cervical Cancer at High Risk of Relapse Worse PFS associated with circulating tumor DNA detected as early as end of treatment Nov 21, 2023
ASTRO Updates Guidelines on Partial Breast Irradiation for Early Invasive Cancer Evidence from RCTs indicates "oncologic equivalence" between partial and whole-breast irradiation Nov 16, 2023
Uh-Oh, Is a Robot Coming for Your Radiographic Analysis Job? Computer matches live expert in measuring joint space and erosions Nov 15, 2023
Hospitals Have Many Opportunities to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Experts Say Radiology departments and operating rooms are good targets Nov 10, 2023
X-Rays Questioned for Diagnosing Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Hardly any patients show abnormalities, so why do them? Nov 08, 2023
FDA Panel Backs High-Risk Designation for Salvaged Blood Irradiators With Class III designation, sponsors would have to prove safety, efficacy with randomized trials Nov 07, 2023
Lung Cancer Survival High at 20 Years With Screen-Detected Tumors After two decades, lung cancer-specific survival remained at 81% in I-ELCAP program Nov 07, 2023
Evidence of Safety, Efficacy for Salvaged Blood Irradiators Lacking, FDA Staff Say Devices are aimed at preventing metastasis during surgery Nov 03, 2023
False-Positive Mammograms May Indicate Higher Breast Cancer Risk in the Future Swedish cohort study shows a 61% increased risk over 20 years Nov 02, 2023
ACS: Millions More Should Get Lung Cancer Screening Notably, new recommendations say it doesn't matter when a person quit smoking Nov 01, 2023
'Practice-Changing' Data in Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer Strategies involving immunotherapy, induction chemo move the needle for first time in decades Oct 23, 2023
Primary Care Intervention Improved Follow-Up of Abnormal Cancer Screening Results Follow-up testing within 120 days was improved with EHR reminders, patient outreach, navigation Oct 10, 2023
Risk of Contrast Media Causing Acute Kidney Injury Is Overblown, Study Finds Despite restrictions on its use, an association with kidney injury hasn't been shown Oct 10, 2023
Can ctDNA Guide Radiation Use in Oligometastatic NSCLC? Detectable circulating tumor DNA before radiotherapy linked with worse survival Oct 05, 2023
Use of Recent Diagnostic CT Scans for Palliative RT Planning Reduced Treatment Time Time to treatment completion slashed by over 4 hours compared with CT simulation planning Oct 04, 2023
