In November 2017, Maine voters supported a referendum to expand Medicaid covered under the Affordable Care Act—becoming the first state to do so with a direct vote. But it has been nearly nine months since election day, and Gov. Paul LePage has refused to expand the program, claiming it’s a budgetary disaster. Now, three weeks after enrollment opened, hundreds of Mainers wait to see when they will receive health insurance.

A blood test administered within 12 hours of a suspected traumatic brain injury (TBI) could help clinicians identify injuries like hemorrhage and contusion before having to resort to CT imaging, according to the preliminary results of a study published this week in the Lancet Neurology.

A new report co-commissioned by Politico and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, delved deeper into Americans’ outlook regarding the Trump administration’s policies to address prescription drug prices. Though President Donald Trump has called this one of his “greatest priorities,” poll numbers show the country is skeptical.

Recent advances in cone beam technology mean neurointerventionalists are able to diagnose a patient with large vessel occlusion without a CT scan or trip to the emergency department—possibly reducing time to care by as much as an hour.

A New Jersey-based radiologist has been selected for the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Breast Cancer in Young Women, the American College of Radiology announced this week.

A hospital’s radiology department in Australia failed its accreditation report noting a negative environment as a main factor, ending a 25-year run with an “A” rating, according to ABC News.

Invasive cardiologists ranked No. 1 of all subspecialties with an average starting salary of $590,000, according to Merritt Hawkins’ 2018 report. And that's just the base amount—more money can be earned with quality and productivity incentives.

Generation Z—including individuals currently between the ages of 18 and 22—often have more in common with Generation X than Millennials, according to Steven Rowe, MD, PhD, and radiologist at Johns Hopkins University of Medicine and colleagues. Gen Z may offer new kinds of benefits to the ever-evolving field of radiology.