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

Kate Hanneman, MD, explains why many vendors and hospitals want to lower radiology's impact on the environment. "Taking steps to reduce the carbon footprint in healthcare isn’t just an opportunity," she said. "It’s also a responsibility."

Philips introduced a new CT system at ECR aimed at the rapidly growing cardiac CT market, incorporating numerous AI features to optimize workflow and image quality.

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