Ryan McBeth

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#MyRadGirlfriend No. 88: Data is king, but food fills seats

Data is all the rage as healthcare analysts look for quantitative measures of healthcare quality. But how do you get busy attending physicians and residents to fill out surveys? Find out one trick in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.

June 27, 2019

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#MyRadGirlfriend No. 87: The feminist narrative

Do today's research trials adequately reflect medical outcomes in women? Or are they too focused on men? Ryan starts to wonder in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.

June 13, 2019

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#MyRadGirlfriend No. 86: Think before you scoot

Electric scooters are everywhere now, and while they can be a lot of fun, they also can have unintended consequences. One of those is more work for radiologists who read imaging studies from the emergency room -- including Andy, who decides to make a statement in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.

May 30, 2019

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#MyRadGirlfriend No. 85: The magic of Cinco de Mayo

With the Cinco de Mayo holiday approaching, many hospital residents who aren’t working or aren’t on call have the opportunity to blow off a little steam. Priya and Andy are no different, as we discover in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.

May 2, 2019

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Emergency Radiology

#MyRadGirlfriend No. 84: The most dangerous place

Yes, the emergency room can be a dangerous place for a physician. But even greater danger can be found elsewhere in the hospital, as we learn in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.

April 11, 2019

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#MyRadGirlfriend No. 83: Circling the drain

One of the most challenging things about a radiologist's job can be dealing with referring clinicians, especially ones that are particularly obstinate, as Dr. Rankin is in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.

March 21, 2019

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#MyRadGirlfriend No. 82: When you hear hoofbeats ...

It's been a late night in the reading room, and Andy encounters a perplexing case that could have a variety of differential diagnoses. Find out how she settles on the correct one in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.

March 7, 2019

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#MyRadGirlfriend No. 81: The price to pay for being antivax

Antivaxxers may think they're doing the right thing for their kids, but there's a price to pay for not getting vaccinated -- and it's mainly paid by their children, as Andy and Ryan find out in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.

February 21, 2019

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#MyRadGirlfriend No. 80: Anxiety in the reading room

What fears push your anxiety buttons? For some radiologists, it's the board exam, while others have more existential concerns. Andy has to face some of her internal demons during a long night in the reading room in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.

February 7, 2019

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#MyRadGirlfriend No. 79: How sweet it is

Most folks would agree that the explosion of new coffee varieties is a great thing. But they can have a downside, as Andy and Priya find out in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.

January 24, 2019

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Anatomical illustration of knee pain showing muscle and bone structure with red and blue overlay indicating inflammation and blood flow

MRI model reveals how 3D knee shape influences ACL loading

Researchers created digital twins from patients' knees, and women had greater ACL force than men.

Meet the Minnies 2026 finalists

X-ray visualization of human lungs with red highlighted inflammation or abnormality in right lung

Gaps identified in surveillance of incidental lung nodules

SIIM-CAIMI: Tech just one driver of AI's future in radiology

Free Radiology Workflow Webinar

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CEM-guided biopsy effective for sampling suspicious breast findings

By Amerigo Allegretto

CEM-guided biopsy yielded malignancy in over one-quarter of cases.

October 15, 2026

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Radiologists, LLMs fail at spotting AI-generated chest x-rays

Neither humans or LLMs appear well suited to serve as the primary safeguard.

October 15, 2026

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Meet the Minnies 2026 semifinalist candidates

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Competition will be fierce for this year's Minnies awards, with well over 100 candidates vying for trophies in 14 categories.

October 15, 2026

GAE cuts steroid injections by half in knee osteoarthritis patients

Steroid injections provide only short-term relief, and repeated use carries concern for further cartilage damage.

October 14, 2026

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Manual, DL-generated segmentations differ in radiomic features

By Amerigo Allegretto

DL models showed poor or fair agreement with manual segmentation, as well as bias, on abdominal CT and MRI.

October 14, 2026

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Brain MRI features linked to cognitive decline in older populations

By Amerigo Allegretto

Baseline tightness of the high-convexity sulci (THC) at MRI is tied to cognitive decline in older adults.

October 14, 2026

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Interventional rads treat half of Medicare liver cancer patients

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Interventional radiology accounted for 7.4% of total payments while performing 11.7% of work relative value units.

October 13, 2026

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Rural-urban breast cancer survival gap widens, ACS studies find

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The studies will be presented at the ASCO Quality Care Symposium in Boston.

October 13, 2026

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Lu-177 PNT2002 before SBRT extends disease control in prostate cancer

A group from the University of California, Los Angeles, updated an analysis of outcomes from the LUNAR trial by 10 months.

October 13, 2026

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AI on par with radiologists for finding prostate cancer on MRI

By Amerigo Allegretto

The AI system achieved high diagnostic performance and agreement with radiologists.

October 13, 2026

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HPI: Evidence contradicts broad claims about AI, radiology workforce

By Amerigo Allegretto

A team from the Neiman HPI expressed concern about comments published in JAMA Health Forum on the radiology workforce.

October 13, 2026

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New research initiative to create protocol for women with BAC

By Amerigo Allegretto

The InAWH and the Washington Research Foundation aim to help hospitals and providers put BAC reporting into practice.

October 12, 2026

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