Anxiety about the impact of national healthcare reform reverberated throughout the halls of lawmakers, policymakers, and federal administrators this week, as America tries to decide where and how its healthcare system will bear the burden of increasing patient populations and the costs of treating them.

In March, BC Technical, Inc. acquired Consus Medical Imaging, a company that specializes in servicing Molecular Imaging equipment out of Jacksonville, FL. This acquisition will expand Utah-based BC Technical's customer base in the Southeast.

After a quarter of aggressive partnerships and acquisitions in early 2012, RadNet still posted a 17 percent increase in year-over-year revenues for the quarter, which totaled $168.5 million. Per-share net income for the quarter was flat, an improvement over Q1 2011 figures, when shares lost $0.02 apiece.

As Ben Venue Laboratories continues to withdraw from the contract manufacturing services market, its client, Lantheus Medical Imaging, has found a new partner for the manufacture of a pair of contrast agents.

With the potential to provide adjunctive therapies and on-site reading in a single appointment, the new SenoBright breast imaging technology from GE could be a game-changer, the company says.

Whatever form the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) may take—and we are, of course, in an election year—a confluence of factors conspires to keep radiologists in demand for the foreseeable future, says Brian Baker, President of the Franklin, TN-based Regents Health Resources.

Today the FDA released for public comment a guidance document on pediatric imaging that should help x-ray manufacturers develop devices better suited to safely imaging child patients.

Instances in which imaging is unnecessarily performed may be related to a gap in adherence to report recommendations, says new research from Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate, Brigham and Women's Hospital.