President Donald Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, is facing a confirmation hearing this week as the Senate reviews his record and questions the nominee. The process opened with dramatic cries from Democrats to adjourn and postpone the hearings on Tuesday, Sept. 4

Cardiac patients who develop new-onset atrial fibrillation (AFib) after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) are at a higher risk for complications like stroke, myocardial infarction and death than those whose AFib was established before the procedure, researchers report in the current online issue of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.

Michelle Dorsey, MD, the chief of radiology at the Phoenix VA Health System in Arizona, has been awarded a White House Leadership Fellowship. Dorsey is the first Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) physician and radiologist to earn the fellowship. She will join the White House Office of Management and Budget for the Customer Experience Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) Goal.

Functional MRI (fMRI) may be the key to identifying specific neurons in the brain that are central to distinguishing bipolar disorder from depression, reported researchers in a recent Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging study.

For people who are blind or have vision problems, the creation of a bionic eye offers hope that one day they’ll be able to see or see better. That hope just got a little closer to reality with the creation of a 3D-printed prototype of a bionic eye.

Advancements in genetic testing and how genes can lead to cancer have expanded the possibilities for personalized treatments. Radiologists, caring for patients from screening through surveillance, must be aware of radiation sensitivity. Cancer predisposition syndromes (CPS), while rare, need to be considered when developing plans for imaging of children.

The family of a Tennessee man who died in 2017, one month after open-heart surgery, is suing TriStar Centennial hospital, alleging the surgeon left a needle inside his body.

A Plano, Texas-based physician came under fire for stating the gender wage gap among physicians exists because female doctors don’t work as hard.

Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner revealed the company is hoping to develop a “single shared network of healthcare data” in an effort to solve interoperability issues between healthcare systems, according to a report by the Capital Times.

A team of Singapore-based researchers has created an artificial intelligence (AI) platform capable of calculating a patient’s optimal prostate cancer drug dosage that ultimately stopped the disease’s progression in a patient, according to a study published in Advanced Therapeutics.