On Friday, July 6, tariffs on $34 billion worth of products imported from China—including x-ray, CT and MRI equipment—officially went into effect. Tariffs on another $16 billion worth of products are expected to kick in in a matter of weeks.

Breast cancer screening programs could reduce both costs and overdiagnosis by focusing on at-risk women, according to a new study published by JAMA Oncology.

Health insurance does little to protect low-income families from crippling financial hardship when a relative has atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), according to a study published July 3 in JAMA Cardiology.

The FDA’s rules preventing sexually active gay men from donating blood are discriminatory and based on outdated fears, a physician wrote in an op-ed piece for the Los Angeles Times.

Jimmie Taggart, 59, visited the clinic at North Mississippi Medical Center in West Point for back pain that CT confirmed to be kidney stones. But the real trouble came when he received a $4,051 bill in the mail after the hospital said his insurance would cover the scan.

Jimmie Taggart went to North Mississippi Medical Center in West Point, Mississippi, complaining about severe back pain. When his doctor recommended an abdominal CT scan to confirm he had kidney stones, however, he wouldn’t agree to the procedure. He was afraid of how much it would cost.

CMS is taking public comments ahead of a Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) meeting July 25 in which panelists will discuss procedural volume requirements for centers to begin and maintain a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) program.

Self-identified radiologists tallied more than $16 million in political contributions between 2003 and 2016, a Journal of the American College of Radiology study found. The majority of those dollars went to the Radiology Political Action Committee (RADPAC).