Respiratory tract infection (RTI) patients who were prescribed antibiotics during virtual visits rated their physicians better than patients who weren’t prescribed any antibiotics.

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 4 — Carestream Health researchers and scientists will participate in scientific presentations that showcase advances in medical imaging at the upcoming Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual conference.

A higher consumption of processed meat—foods such as bacon, sausage and salami—is associated with a higher risk of breast cancer, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of research published in the International Journal of Cancer.

Sanjiv Kaul, MD, director of the Knight Cardiovascular Institute at Oregon Health and Science University, announced he’ll be stepping down from his leadership role by the end of this year following the disassembly of the university’s heart transplant team a month ago. Kaul is expected to remain at OHSU, but will focus solely on research. 

CVS Health will keep Aetna’s headquarters in Hartford, Connecticut, for at least 10 years following the completion of its $69 billion merger with Aetna, The Hartford Courant reported.

Sam Sarkis Solakyan, the owner and operator of diagnostic imaging facilities across California, was arrested on Sept. 26 for fraud—including conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud and health care fraud.

Determining how highly specialized surgeons and physicians learn new skills or respond to a stressful situation may be unveiled with recently published neuroimaging research, the Wall Street Journal reported on Oct. 3.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has named breast imaging researcher Etta Pisano, MD, chief research officer of the ACR, the first woman in ACR's history to hold the position.

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) was easily the treatment of choice in German patients with severe stenosis at intermediate surgical risk from 2012 to 2014, according to a registry study, with both TAVR and surgical AVR (SAVR) carrying a 3.6 percent risk of in-hospital mortality.

Equal numbers of men and women graduate from medical school, but only a fraction of leaders in the field are female physicians. Women make up 80 percent of the healthcare workforce, but they are vastly underrepresented when it comes to leadership roles, according to an editorial in the Harvard Business Review.