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Great news for Medicare patients who are currently or have at some point been long-time smokers. The centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has drafted a proposal to cover annual low-dose CT scans for their patients at a high risk for developing lung cancer. Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer deaths in the United...
Tomorrow is World Radiography Day! On November 8th, we celebrate the anniversary of the invention of the X-ray by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen in 1895. It's amazing how far radiology has come in the last 119 years!
We'd like to wish all of our Techs at XRA a happy Radiologic Technology Week! We couldn't do what we do without your knowledge and hard work. Thank you!
Effective on October 1, 2014, Rhode Island is the 17th state in the US to enact a law requiring facilities performing mammograms to notify patients if their breast tissue is considered dense. About 40% of patients who receive mammograms qualify as having dense breasts, so it is seen fairly often by radiologists. Having dense breasts, however,...