Michael W. Penney, MD, has been named the vice chair for community radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln was awarded $11 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop drug therapies that will treat radiation exposure for the military. If successful, the findings may also be applied to decreasing radiation exposure emitted from medical imaging technologies such as CT or x-rays, according to a recent report by NET News in Nebraska.

Radiologists provide significant value. According to a new analysis published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, however, the specialty is still judged by “checkbox metrics” that do not illustrate its true value. 

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center appointed a new president and restructured other staff after an investigation from the Houston Chronicle and ProPublica found mistakes at the Houston-based hospital’s heart transplant center led to patient deaths.

Breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI) may be able to help specialists assess treatment response in breast cancer patients after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), according to a new study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

The FDA released draft regulatory framework and complimentary documents detailing its plans to streamline the review of digital health devices, including artificial intelligence (AI) technology, under its Software Precertification (Pre-Cert) initiative.

Public health insurance programs are covering an increasing number of heart transplant surgeries in the U.S., recent research suggests, meaning the outcomes of such procedures could hinge on decisions made by the federal government.

The U.S. healthcare system is not very popular, according to a recent Gallup poll. In fact, 70 percent of Americans describe the system as being “in a state of crisis” or “having major problems,” the poll found.