When hospitals enjoy a monopoly in their market, their prices for privately insured patients are 12.5 percent higher on average, according to a study encompassing 88 million people covered by Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealthcare. The differences disappeared when consolidating facilities were located more than 25 miles apart.

Regulatory requirements could be a main reason for physician dissatisfaction and increased burnout with electronic health records (EHRs), according to an Ideas and Opinions piece published May 8 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Football is largely the focus of discussions concerning athletes and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), but could that be starting to change?

After patients have a subcortical stroke in the right hemisphere of their brain, more than one in three experience cognitive decline. That decline may be the result of damage to specific pathways in the brain, according to a new study published in Radiology.

To reduce healthcare costs and improve radiologist job satisfaction, clinicians at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine are proposing a new role akin to the physician’s assistant: a radiology extender.

Specialists outside of radiology—cardiologists and vascular surgeons, for instance—have started interpreting more and more lower extremity venous duplex ultrasound (LEVDU) examinations in the last few decades. However, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, radiologists still interpret more LEVDU examinations that occur over the weekend than nonradiologists.

Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceuticals has announced it will acquire Shire, an Ireland-based drug company, for $62 billion, making Takeda one of the 10 largest pharma firms in the world.

Looking at the transition in leadership at 490 hospitals, a study found 82 facilities chose a new chief executive from among their existing C-suite leaders, while the vast majority—408 hospitals—went with an outside hire.