Amgen’s newly created subsidiary, Pillartree Limited, will acquire Horizon Therapeutics for $116.50 per share in cash. That’s a premium of 19.7% above the closing price of $97.29 on Dec. 9, 2022.

According to reports, the respiratory physician who treated the patient following her lung cancer diagnosis described her death as “totally avoidable."

Practicing in teleradiology is amazing, or it’s your worst nightmare.

How do I know? Because I’ve been in two telerad positions that couldn’t have been more different.

I’ll be honest, I had no plans to go into teleradiology straight from residency. However, I fell into it because economic conditions meant choices were slim as I started my career in 2014.

Steve Jobs once famously said that you have to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. I am a strong believer in this mantra as it serves imaging providers very well when we think of our radiologists as our “internal customers.” How can we create a better work experience? Where can we remove annoyances, eliminate distractions, or improve efficiency?  

Clinicians who routinely manage patients screened for lung cancer with low-dose CT have a new 1-page printout to illuminate evidence-based care pathways when faced with significant but questionably urgent incidental findings.

The risk assessment tool could help health systems and researchers alike determine when patients face greater odds of post-PCI complications. 

With the midterms in the rearview, the lameduck Congress is focused on a handful of healthcare priorities heading into 2023, including mental health and implementing recent Medicare price negotiations afforded in the Inflation Reduction Act.

A new brain imaging study is giving experts insight into how medication used to treat ADHD works in the brain to soften symptoms associated with the neurological disorder. 

Epic, the nation’s largest electronic health record system, has launched a new Connection Hub where vendors can interoperate with Epic software.