The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced efforts to widen the scientific community's access to cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) through its Transformative High Resolution Cryo-Electron Microscopy program.  

Health systems have made upgrades to revenue cycle solutions one of their top priorities in recent years, but C-suite leaders may not be happy with the results when it comes to reducing denials, according to a survey from Dimensional Insight and HIMSS Analytics.

Watchman-related thrombi developed in 3.7 percent of patients who were implanted with the device, resulting in a threefold risk of stroke or systemic embolism, according to a meta-analysis of clinical trials and registries published online May 11 in Circulation.

Public Health England (PHE) revealed this month that, since 2009, approximately 450,000 women around the age of 70 were not sent invitations to receive breast cancer screening due to an IT issue. Jeremy Hunt, the U.K.’s health and social care secretary, has said the government will provide catch-up screening to women under the age of 72 within six months.

Black cancer patients are less likely to receive guideline-concordant care than white counterparts, researchers reported in Advances in Radiation Oncology this month. Those treatment disparities could have a profound impact on minority mortality rates.

Until 1980, the U.S. was similar to other countries in per capita spending and life expectancy. Princeton University sociology professor Paul Starr, PhD, said high inflation and sluggish economic growth in the late 1970s hurt countries’ abilities to afford healthcare. The difference was “other countries have been able to put limits on healthcare prices and spending” while the U.S. relied on market forces.

New features-rich DICOM load balancer from Dicom Systems assures high availability and guarantee performance.

German researchers have developed a new method for creating three-dimensional (3D) images of cells that utilizes photoacoustic imaging and a phytochrome protein to provide in vivo looks at tumor growth.

Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. announced Tuesday, May 15, its plan to highlight the company’s full portfolio of pediatric solutions at the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) Annual Meeting May 16-18 in Nashville, Tennessee.

An effective transition to skilled nursing facilities or home healthcare requires caregivers on both sides of the interaction to work together, which often doesn’t happen, according to the authors of an Annals of Internal Medicine web exclusive.