Requiring hospitals and physicians to publicly report their mortality outcomes related to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) causes many interventional cardiologists to forego high-risk procedures, researchers reported in JAMA Cardiology.

President Donald Trump is set to deliver a speech on pharmaceutical prices on May 11—but rather than matching his campaign rhetoric saying drug industry is “getting away with murder,” he’s expected to be cheered by pharma companies for calling for foreign countries to pay more for drugs, rather than bring down prices in the U.S.

In today’s era of quality over quantity, it’s important for radiologists to demonstrate their value by delivering high-quality radiology reports to clinicians. In some specialties, however, the clinicians don’t always necessarily view the full radiology reports or the images that accompany the reports.

A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool lets scientists visualize a three-dimensional (3D) model of living human cells, even when the entire cell is not visible, according to a recent NPR story.

When hospitals enjoy a monopoly in their market, their prices for privately insured patients are 12.5 percent higher on average, according to a study encompassing 88 million people covered by Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealthcare. The differences disappeared when consolidating facilities were located more than 25 miles apart.

Through MRI analysis, researchers from Duke University found poor communication between multiple regions in the brain's visual cortex increases the risk of developing mental illness.

A quantitative measure of stress perfusion by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging showed superior ability to predict major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in unselected patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD), according to a study published May 7 in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.

Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston have created a tool capable of predicting if patients with mycosis fungoides (MF) will develop a deadly form of the cancer. Findings were published May 9 in Science Translational Medicine.

Researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston have developed artificial intelligence (AI) with the aim to improve the accuracy of patient-specific clinical target volumes in cancer patients. Findings were published in the June 2018 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology.

Regulatory requirements could be a main reason for physician dissatisfaction and increased burnout with electronic health records (EHRs), according to an Ideas and Opinions piece published May 8 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.