U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon has approved the $69 billion acquisition of Aetna by CVS Health, he announced in an opinion on Sept. 4.

Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and digital mammography (DM) detect breast cancers with comparable tumor characteristics, according to a new study published in Radiology.

Medicare Part D overpaid millions of dollars for prescription drugs that should have been covered by the Medicare Part A hospice benefit, according to a recent report from the Office of Inspector General (OIG), which conducted an audit from 2016 payments. In other words, CMS paid twice for the same drugs.

The ACR released a statement urging more nuanced conclusions should be drawn from a Sept. 3 study published by JAMA that found the use of medical imaging continues to grow despite efforts to curb overutilization.

French medtech startup Robocath has raised 5 million euros—the equivalent of $5.5 million in U.S. currency—in support of its cardiovascular robotics system, the company announced this month.

CVS Health announced a $2 million contribution to an existing $50 million campaign to end e-cigarette use, known as vaping, among teenagers. The announcement comes at a time when hundreds of lung disease injuries linked to vaping have appeared in dozens of states.

A model utilizing natural language processing and machine learning can accurately detect radiology reports that demand follow-up imaging, reported researchers of a new study published in the Journal of Digital Imaging.

Men who live on their own—but not women—struggle to take warfarin as directed, according to research presented Sept. 2 at the ESC Congress in Paris.

Purdue Pharma, the maker of popular opioid OxyContin, is preparing to file for bankruptcy before the end of September if the company doesn’t reach a settlement over thousands of lawsuits against the company for its role in the opioid abuse epidemic, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

The level of pragmatism in CV-related randomized clinical trials has only increased moderately over the past two decades, according to work published in JAMA Cardiology Sept. 1.