Swiss-based medical equipment start-up Pristem recently secured more than $14 million to begin producing its digital radiology solution designed to bring technologically advanced medical imaging to low-income countries.

New research from the University of Chicago found that 60 percent of Americans have been surprised to receive a medical bill that they thought would have been covered by insurance. Of these people, more than a third reported surprise charges were related to imaging services.

On Aug. 29, California-based Alliance HealthCare Services announced it had finalized a partnership agreement with Northeast Radiology, an imaging practice with five locations in Connecticut and New York.

Fibromyalgia patients experienced significant pain reduction thanks to a new device that uses both ultrasound and laser therapy to help treat the disease, according to a pilot study.

An Indiana jury's medical malpractice verdict of $15 million awarded to a woman in June will stay, after her stage 4 rectal cancer went undetected on a CT scan. The defendant, the Center for Diagnostic Imaging of Carmel (CDI), was denied a reduction or amendment to the original judgement by Southern District of Indiana Chief Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson.

The U.S. Senate passed a $854 billion “minibus” bill on Thursday, Aug. 23, which includes funding for HHS and an amendment filed by Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, to increase federal screening programs for the detection and treatment black lung disease in U.S. coal miners.  

A study published Aug. 27 in Nature Human Behaviour showed that scientists are skilled in detected questionable and/or unreliable results.

Emergency departments (EDs) could see significant cost savings by eliminating oral contrast administration for most patients presenting with nontraumatic abdominal pain, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.