The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced its strategy to vaccinate and protect those most at risk from monkeypox, a rare disease in the same family as smallpox.

Upon commissioning a business process improvement team to meticulously track interpretative uptime, a 13-radiologist group learned its members had been spending nearly as many hours navigating interruptions as reading images.

"Clinical study protocols may involve more than one PET [amyloid-beta] scan per patient,” the CMS announcement said.

In wake of the Supreme Court’s vote to overturn Roe v. Wade––the historic court case that set a precedent for the Constitutional right to abortion care for the last nearly 50 years––healthcare industry groups and leaders have come forward speaking out against the decision.

Hospitals have been required to post their prices of their 300 most common procedures since Jan. 1, 2021. However, a majority of providers are still not fully complying. 

The FDA had a busy June, clearing multiple solutions designed to treat patients with cardiovascular conditions. 

An analysis of CMS data has shown radiology had little to do with increases in Medicare costs over a 10-year period ending in 2019.

According to a new SCAI statement, the FDA's recommendation would result in "far-reaching consequences" across multiple specialties.