If participants in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) are required to move into a track which involves downside risk for their organization, they’re likely to leave the program altogether, according to the results of a survey from the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS).

Automated and clinical breast density evaluation methods are equally accurate in predicting a patient’s risk of breast cancer, according to a new study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Charles Kahn, MD, MS, has been named editor of Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, a new online journal set to launch in early 2019, according to an announcement from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)'s Board of Directors.

Abbott’s XIENCE Sierra, the newest generation of the company’s everolimus-eluting coronary stent, has been approved for national reimbursement in Japan.

The American Heart Association (AHA)/American Stroke Association (ASA) is revisiting its recently updated stroke guidelines after issuing a “correction” that removed several portions.

In the six-patient trial, focused ultrasound will be used to disrupt a crucial circuit in the brain associated with major depression.

Automated and clinical Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) density can similarly detect and predict breast cancer, according to a study published May 1 in Annals of Internal Medicine. The two methods also perform similarly in measuring breast density.

More and more people are being diagnosed with end-stage renal disease (ESRD)—a condition that, without dialysis, can lead to death within weeks—and those patients need radiologists more than ever, Sandra O’Rear, BSN, RN, and colleagues wrote in the Journal of Radiology Nursing.

Public Health England (PHE) announced this week that, since 2009, approximately 450,000 women around the age of 70 were not sent invitations to participate in the United Kingdom's NHS breast screening program. The issue, caused by “a complex IT problem,” was identified in January.

A new nationwide study from Japan highlighted the importance of timely ambulance arrival, showing that bystander defibrillation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest are essentially worthless if EMS response times are slower than 13 minutes and 11 minutes, respectively.