The Hamptons Paddle & Party for Pink, an annual fundraiser that includes both an early-morning paddle board race and an elegant party, occurred Saturday, Aug. 4, raising $1.4 million for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

The U.S. FDA issued new draft guidelines to treat opioid use disorders that include using medication-assisted treatment drugs.

In a medical landscape where the prognosis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains poor, postoperative CT and FDG PET-CT imaging could help detect disease recurrence, researchers reported in the European Journal of Radiology this summer.

Physician assistants (PAs) specializing in cardiology earned a median base salary of $105,000 in 2017—equivalent to the median across all specialties, according to the 2018 Salary Report from the American Academy of PAs.

China announced on Friday, Aug. 3, its plans to impose $60 billion in new tariffs on more than 5,000 imported U.S. products, including medical imaging equipment such as x-ray tubes, CT and MRI systems and ultrasonic scanning devices.

The U.S. has some of the highest healthcare costs in the world, but overall quality and cost can vary widely by state.

A patient-centered approach to contrast administration in CT, outlined this month in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, balances contrast dose with radiation dose, reportedly increasing patient safety while maintaining high-quality diagnostics.

The CDC reported more than 50 percent of drug overdose deaths involve an opioid. And in the past two decades, opioid-related overdose deaths has increased by more than five times.