U.K. radiologists hope an innovative new pilot program will help train more clinicians to become breast treatment experts, thereby relieving staffing shortages in the specialty.

Walmart wants to make healthcare cheaper and simpler for its associates and their families and is changing up its 2020 medical plan to offer new pilot programs in select markets.

Numerous researchers have documented the benefits of obtaining a second opinion on the review of imaging studies performed at another institution. However, little has been published on how to handle such outside data in terms of payment and keeping records. 

The American Cancer Society (ACS) has shared a new update on breast cancer statistics in the United States, drawing data from a wide variety of sources. The full report was published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians on Oct. 2.

Digital health has been a hot sector for investors over the last several years, but the hot streak for the space may be cooling down at the end of 2019, as evidenced by the latest figures by Rock Health.

Google’s parent company has made a high-profile hire by naming Robert Califf, MD, to head its medical strategy and policy for Google Health and Verily.

If leaders want to succeed in training resident radiologists, they may need to pull a 180 on old, outdated teaching methods.

While vaccinations rates prevented at least 10 million deaths worldwide from 2010 to 2015, according to the World Health Organization, there is a growing faction of U.S. residents who aren’t vaccinating their children. And some states are better than others when it comes to vaccinating.