Radiology

Why are prices for medical care such a mystery?

2013-04-18 16:47:00

Ted Kamp wanted to make sure his daughter received the medical treatment she needed. That was his first priority. His second was making sure his insurance would cover things and that he'd pay a fair price for any procedures. The fact that this...

Screenings to help treat the right cancers

2012-09-13 00:00:00

Cancer is running out of places to hide. A new blood test can ferret out a single cancer cell tucked away among a billion healthy cells. Radiologists are using crystal-clear 3-D mammograms to find suspicious spots and lumps that they never could have seen...

State senator pushes bill on breast cancer screening

2012-03-28 16:39:46

Soccer heading could lead to brain injury

2011-11-29 17:06:00

Cut back on mammograms?

2009-10-21 12:36:00

For years, breast cancer awareness campaigns have urged women over 40 to get a yearly mammogram. When women hesitate to comply, it's often to avoid the discomfort of having their breasts squeezed or the fear of getting called back for more tests, even...

Technology expands breast cancer screening options

2010-04-12 00:00:00

Breast-cancer-screening isn't like looking for a needle in a haystack. It's harder. It's like looking for needles in a big field of haystacks, where some of the haystacks have needles, while most don't, but you don't know which are which, so you have to...

Medical report says airport scanners pose no significant health threat

2011-03-29 16:34:43

May 6 buzz: How to stop healthcare costs from going up; the benefit of Superman going global

2011-05-06 16:35:22

Changing course mid career

2010-08-18 00:00:00

Life often takes unexpected twists and turns, as it did for Jeff Henry, 29, of Huntington Beach. Henry always knew he wanted to be a teacher. He was a volunteer coach in a youth program and quickly realized teaching went hand in hand with coaching. With a...

Overuse of CT scans will lead to new cancer deaths, a study shows

2009-12-15 00:00:00

Widespread overuse of CT scans and variations in radiation doses caused by different machines -- operated by technicians following an array of procedures -- are subjecting patients to high radiation doses that will ultimately lead to tens of thousands...

'My Father's Bonus March' by Adam Langer

2009-11-01 00:00:00

My Father's Bonus March Adam Langer Spiegel & Grau: 244 pp., $26 In June 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, a ragtag collection of World War I veterans converged on Washington, D.C., to demand money the government had promised them. About...

4 patients say Cedars-Sinai did not tell them they had received a radiation overdose

2009-10-15 00:00:00

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center did not tell all 206 patients who received radiation overdoses during CT scans of the hospital's error, according to the accounts of four people who said they only came to understand what happened to them through news reports....

Dr. Fang Zhu brings her expertise in neuroradiology imaging to Loyola University Health System. In addition, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Radiology at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

2012-12-13 12:34:00

Matt Maloney has been appointed to the board of directors at Merge Healthcare Incorporated. He will be filling the Board seat vacated by the retirement of Gregg Hartemayer. Maloney is co-founder and CEO of GrubHub. Prior to GrubHub, Maloney managed technology development at Apartments.

2012-08-21 07:47:00

Attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday for City Hospital�s new interventional radiology suite in Martinsburg, W.Va., were, from left, George Karos, mayor of Martinsburg; Drs.

2012-07-31 05:09:00