Struggling with statins

Primary care physician John Henning Schumann, MD, chronicles his encounters with patients’ obsession with cholesterol. “If you ask me to boil down the modern doctor-patient relationship to its most basic elements, cholesterol pretty much sums it up,” he writes in NPR Shots.

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Several key trends were evident at the Radiological Society of North America 2024 meeting, including new CT and MR technology and evolving adoption of artificial intelligence.

Ron Blankstein, MD, professor of radiology, Harvard Medical School, explains the use of artificial intelligence to detect heart disease in non-cardiac CT exams.

Eleven medical societies have signed on to a consensus statement aimed at standardizing imaging for suspected cardiovascular infections.