What is the risk of getting sick for e-cigarette fans? If you vape, and you have shortness of breath, chest pain, fever, it may not be COVID-19 at all. Radiologists and medical imaging scientists sound the alarm about a new disease spreading across the planet, associated precisely with electronic smoking…

The polyclinics converted to outpatient CT centers started to admit COVID-19 patients. A novel routing mechanism is there to secure access to radiological and instrumental diagnostic methods for patients with physical illnesses or cancer 22 polyclinics have been converted to outpatient CT centers. Each Moscow district has at least one…

Not long ago I published an article about the use of computed tomography (CT) to scan chest organs in patients with suspected COVID-19. The article resonated with the audience while CT imaging was positively acknowledged both in Moscow and New York. Some readers, being also regular health care consumers, expressed…

Stanislav Samburskiy talked with Sergey Morozov, CEO of the Moscow Center of Diagnostics & Telemedicine, and Maxim Smolyarchuk, Deputy Chief Officer of Radiology and Instrumental Diagnostics for Radionuclide Diagnostics in Moscow. Cancer patients will be examined at PET-centers in Moscow using a new radiopharmaceutical agent — fluorine-18-PSMA. Patients with recurrent…

Stanislav Samburskiy talked with Sergey Morozov, the Chief Specialist in Radiation and Instrumental Diagnostics and CEO of the Moscow Center of Diagnostics & Telemedicine. The use of computed tomography in outpatient computed tomography centers (OCTC) is entirely consistent with the clinical data and global best practices. This is also an…

COVID computed tomography centers at the Moscow outpatient clinics are gradually being returned to normal. Stanislav Samburskiy and Elena Bukolova talked with Sergey Morozov, the Chief Specialist in Radiation and Instrumental Diagnostics and CEO of the Moscow Center of Diagnostics & Telemedicine about the options available to people in Moscow…

To date, 12 of the 46 Moscow COVID outpatient computed tomography centers (OCTC) have been transferred back to normal operation. Previously, these centers were opened in the city clinics for the examination of people with suspected COVID-19 and flu symptoms. For two months during their operation, 150 thousand people were…

Russia celebrates Medical Worker Day on the third Sunday of June. This year, most holidays are being held online, and the Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine celebrated its professional holiday online too. On June 21, Doctor’s TV channel, with the support of the Center, held a virtual concert dedicated to…

Diagnosing diseases is a complex process, especially when it comes to a new infection. A set of diagnostic studies helps to interpret the clinical picture of the patient correctly and to propose the right treatment plan. The Moscow healthcare system adopted the following approach: outpatient computed tomography centers for patients…