Two separate radiology providers recently relaunched their mammography services following lengthy suspensions, triggered by FDA and ACR concerns. 

A new investigation examining how marketers are getting the personal Medicare information of seniors is underway, with government watchdogs wanting to know if a misuse of a government system is to blame, The Associated Press reported.

These measures were developed by a working group of clinicians and provide radiologists with a new opportunity to score incentives, officials said. 

Ochsner Health, the 41-hospital system serving Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf South, is joining the ranks of academic medical institutions committed to paying the tuition of homegrown future physicians.

“This pioneering effort leverages evidence-based guidelines and the consensus of medical experts in a new and powerful way to optimize care for military veterans,” said Theodore L. DeWeese, MD, chair of ASTRO's board.

Results from a high-profile breast cancer screening program in Ireland are adding more ammunition to the argument that radiologists need help. 

Healthgrades says it arrives at its results after analyzing the performance of close to 4,500 hospitals treating patients for such conditions as heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, respiratory failure, sepsis and stroke.

Scores of organs—mostly kidneys—are trashed each year and many more become critically delayed while being shipped on commercial airliners.