The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is more popular than the recently enacted tax law, according to a poll from Fox News.

Understanding the power of being persuasive is important in any walk of life, including radiology. In a recent commentary for the Journal of the American College of Radiology, lead author Nupur Verma, MD, with the department of radiology at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, and colleagues explained how being persuasive can help radiologists find success and get things done.

For patients with breast cancer, out-of-pocket costs can carry a heavy burden. According to a recent Journal of Supportive Care and Cancer study, those costs can last years after diagnosis—climbing higher for those with lymphedema.

While the healthcare market has evolved to better cater to consumers’ demands and offer specialized care, physicians are still referring patients in outdated ways. This costs health systems by increasingly sending patients to receive out-of-network services, according to a recent study by Kyruus, which surveyed 100 primary care providers and 100 specialists affiliated with U.S. health systems.

A $3 million partnership between the American College of Radiology’s Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute and the Georgia Institute of Technology will establish a data analytics lab that will examine how policy impacts medical imaging, the Gwinnett Daily Post reported.

A shortage of senior radiologists is affecting cancer care in the U.K., according to a new report from the BBC.

Using patient-specific body weight-based protocols during whole-body fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) PET/CT can greatly reduce radiation dosage while maintaining image quality, according to authors of an Academic Radiology study.

Out-of-pocket healthcare costs associated with breast cancer can already be enough to dramatically change a patient’s life. According to a new study published in Supportive Care in Cancer, those costs are even higher for survivors suffering from lymphedema.