Brief meditation can help reduce a patient’s anxiety during acute medical procedures such as stereotactic breast biopsy (SBB), according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

The national uninsured rate in the U.S. has risen nearly 3 percent over the past two years, according to a WalletHub study comparing rates across 547 U.S. cities. Honolulu saw the lowest uninsured rate for large cities, while Dallas took the cake for the country’s highest uninsured rate.

In a viewpoint article recently published in JAMA, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School physicians David W. Bates, MD, Adam Landman, MD, and David M. Levine, MD, argue the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should develop regulatory policies that ensure the safety and effectiveness of mobile apps.

In September 2018, more radiologists were hired in Philadelphia than in any other U.S. city, according to reporting from CBS Philly.

A study presented at TCT 2018 questioned the benefits of “drip-and-ship” for elderly patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), finding patients in their 80s or older who were transferred with fibrinolytic therapy for PCI had an eight-fold risk of hemorrhagic stroke but no survival advantage.

Novel research led by Stephen Smith, PhD, from the Wellcome Center for Integrative Neuroimaging at the University of Oxford in the U.K.—whose team compared genetic data to 10,000 brain MRI scans from the U.K. Biobank project—gives insight into the genetic makeup of the human brain relevant to neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Heart patients across the U.K. have been cut from an international clinical trial to test a novel heart attack drug after the medicine’s manufacturers expressed concern about registering new medications in Europe post-Brexit.

Age-adjusted lung cancer mortality in the United States is estimated to decrease by 79 percent between 2015 and 2065, according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. However, the authors noted, millions of lung cancer deaths are still projected during that time, making it especially important to emphasize screening in the years ahead.

The 2.3 percent medical device tax violates sound tax principles and negatively affects various segments of the healthcare industry, according to a new report released Thursday, Oct. 11, by the San Francisco, California-based Pacific Research Institute.

Antiepileptic drugs, regardless of brand or type, increase risk of stroke in seniors diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, according to research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.