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If you were asked to stereotype the average person who was likely to go in to the doctor for preventive imaging, what would you say? More specifically, if you were asked where the person lived, would you say in a city or out in the country? Most people would assume that it's the urban individual who Continue Reading

Have you ever wondered which preventive imaging tests you should be getting? There is a lot of conflicting information in the media about who should be getting screened for what. This is confused by the fact that newly released studies can alter the recommendations for testing. However, there are s ... Continue Reading

It's Christmas Day. What does that mean to you? For many people, this is a time of appreciation for the people who are here to celebrate the season with them. And for many of those people, that celebration is due at least in small part to the preventive imaging scans that they have gotten throughout Continue Reading

If you are truly interested in the topics of radiology, preventive health screening and medical imaging then there are a lot of different types of materials that you should be reading in addition to blogs like this one. One very important resource that many people neglect to consider in researching ... Continue Reading

Member of the popular musical group Beastie Boys, Adam Yauch, was recently diagnosed with cancer in his pituitary gland. As a precautionary measure, Yauch had his body scanned to detect if the cancer had spread to other parts of his body. "But the good news is that they did scans of my whole bo ... Continue Reading

It is definitely true that radiology is a specialized area of medicine that requires advanced study and focus. However, it can be argued that the study of radiology thirty or forty years ago was a whole lot simpler than it is today. This is due to the fact that advanced imaging technologies are maki ... Continue Reading

The radioactive isotope technetium-99m is used in over 400,000 medical procedures a day, according to the New York Times. This isotope is in high demand, but two of the largest producers of the isotope are shutting down for repairs. This has caused many in the medical community to become worried a ... Continue Reading

The nature of our world today is such that each different sector of society holds information which can be useful to other sectors. When those sectors cooperate well with one another, the amount of collective energy increases and society benefits. In terms of radiology, one of the best industries t ... Continue Reading

A recent study suggests that people suffering from psoriasis are said to have increased chance of developing heart disease. The research shows that psoriasis has the same adverse affects as significant heart disease inducers like obesity, smoking and high blood pressure. The skin disease affects ro ... Continue Reading

There are many different doctors that you can go to in order to get preventive imaging. Sometimes it's nice to get a little more information about what those doctors are like. Here's a closer look at one of the offices in our network to assist you in better understanding what you might be able to ex ... Continue Reading