RadNet recently expanded its California footprint by acquiring five imaging centers in the Fresno area, making it the leading non-hospital-based outpatient imaging operator in the region, according to an April 6 release.

Strategic Radiology announced Friday, April 6, that Minneapolis Radiology Associates has joined its coalition of independent radiology practices, making it the company’s 10th affiliate.

As radiology practices grapple with the specialist shortages and drawn-out wait times that accompany a nationwide push for more specialized MRI, one Michigan practice is successfully solving both problems.

Four of the five major health insurers in the U.S. are involved in major mergers and acquisitions discussed over the past few months. The lone exception has been Anthem, which may put the company in a stronger position, according to the Wall Street Journal.

WebMD has redesigned its Symptom Checker tool, used by 75 million people every month, to improve usability and accuracy in providing users with an outline of most relevant clinical data to make informed health decisions.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is fighting claims from fired VA Secretary David Shulkin, MD, that the agency is moving toward privatizing veterans’ healthcare, issuing a press release calling such talk “completely false and a red herring designed to distract and avoid honest debate on the real issues."

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has announced a partnership with Zipnosis, providers of virtual care technology, to provide AAFP’s 129,000 members and their patients with a comprehensive virtual care platform.

Hypertension, elevated cholesterol and hearing difficulty are more prevalent among noise‐exposed workers, according to new research led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

Radiology rounds were once common, allowing radiologists and referring physicians to interact on a regular basis and discuss patient care. Today, however, they are largely a thing of the past.

A team of international researchers published a study in Radiology that found surface regularity taken from high-resolution contrast-enhanced pretreatment volumetric T1-weighted MRIs to be an accurate predictor of survival in patients with specific malignant brain or spine tumors.