Researchers reported that the artificial intelligence system was able to interpret more than 114,000 screening mammograms using a reading protocol with high sensitivity and specificity.

Researchers revealed that less than 1% of more than 46,000 patients took advantage of online self-scheduling tools.

Using a handheld probe and smartphone, nurse midwives were able to estimate gestational age as accurately as certified sonographers.

Women who underwent magnetic resonance imaging experienced more subsequent scans, procedures, healthcare visits and hospitalizations. 

Radiology and other specialties should reimagine a system requiring numerous separate visits for breast, lung, prostate, cervical, colorectal, and skin cancer, editorialists argued.

The downward trend in annual mammography adherence should serve as a call to action for new processes to engage breast cancer survivors, physicians urged.

Accredited U.S. programs have reported sizable monthly screening deficits for lung, breast, and colorectal cancer, researchers reported recently. 

The bills update the ages at which insurance carriers are required to cover screening mammograms and add language that includes tomosynthesis in the definition of mammographic screening.