As this year’s NFL football season comes to a close, many people are eagerly anticipating the Super Bowl. However, the physical damage the players suffer on the field will continue long after the games are over. A sad example of this comes from a young man from Indiana who was permanently injured playing high school football. He suffered a ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been researching hospitals that order too many CT scans. They particularly looked at the ordering of “double scans” or two scans ordered for the same patient; one with a contrast agent and the other without. “Such double scans are rarely necessary, and expose patients to 700 times as much ...

I keep up to date with Modern Healthcare, Healthcare IT, AHRA, and many other healthcare news outlets. If there is one thing that I can determine about the future, it’s that nobody is sure what will happen. Most people seem to believe that things will get worse before they get better, but just how much worse is a subject of great debate. And ...

Veterinary diagnostic imaging has sure come a long way, baby. The University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine is looking for feline subjects who have a recent diagnosis of congestive heart failure (CHF) or a respiratory illness. The study is examining the use of diagnostic methods that involve minimal stress for cats. X-rays and ...

In Hanover, VA a judge has a difficult decision in front of him. A man has been charged with first degree murder and has been declared competent to stand trial. However, his family has recently come forward with information that he might have brain damage.The only way to know for certain is for him to undergo a neurological examination including ...

The applications of CT are wide stretching and never cease to amaze me. A Dutch sculptor by the name of Caspar Berger did what he describes as “the ultimate memento mori, a genre of art that reminds us of our own mortality.” He had a full body CT scan of his skeleton and then the data was sent to a 3D printer. He created life size copies of ...

In life, sometimes we end up right where we are supposed to be before we even know why. Bill Weir, an anchor for “Nightline,” recently interviewed the world-renowned oncologist Dr. David Agus. He has treated well known patients like Lance Armstrong and Ted Kennedy. Dr. Agus is a believer of many high tech forms of medicine. To help illustrate this ...

Technology and medicine continue to collide with a new app that was just cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It is called Mobile MIM and it can turn an iPhone or an iPad into a handy diagnostic instrument. It allows practitioners to view CT scans, MRIs, and other technologies when they are away from their work stations. It can also ...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is an ailment that makes it hard for a person to breath. It is the 4th major cause of death in the United States. This disease can be caused from smoking on a regular basis, air pollution, or chemical fumes. It is a debilitating illness that gets worse over time and eventually makes it difficult for the ...

I continue to be intrigued by stories that discuss CT scans on unusual subjects. The most recent article I read talks about the dental and sinus health of a young man who was mummified and lived about 2,100 years ago in Egypt. “He had numerous abscesses and cavities, conditions that appear to have resulted, at some point, in a sinus ...