AuntMinnie.com Women's Imaging Insider

Dear Women's Imaging Insider,

Ultrasound is a safe and effective modality for obstetric and gynecological applications, helping clinicians track a woman's pregnancy and evaluate disease. But concerns are growing about the potential for contaminated probes to infect patients with pathogenic microorganisms, a group of Israeli researchers say.

Current guidelines for the disinfection of endovaginal ultrasound probes aren't realistic for busy practitioners. Read more about the problem in our Insider Exclusive.

When you've finished reading our featured article, take a look at what else is going on in the Women's Imaging Community:

• Discover why University of Vermont researchers say that digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) mitigates the screening mammography "harm" of overdiagnosis.
• How has the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 affected breast cancer screening? Results are mixed, according to a team of investigators from Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
• Read about the efforts of two digital mammography vendors to bury the hatchet on a mammography patent dispute.
• In our coverage from the Arab Health 2019 meeting, learn why contributing writer Dr. Nehad Kazim Albastaki says DBT is gaining clinical acceptance in the Middle East.
• Can computer-aided diagnosis with ultrasound improve the diagnostic performance of both less-experienced and experienced breast imagers? South Korean investigators say yes.
• Find out why breast MRI is an effective adjunct screening modality for women at high risk for breast cancer who had negative results on full-field digital mammography or DBT exams.

Finally, if you have a comment, report, or article idea to share about any aspect of women's imaging, I invite you to contact me.