Equal numbers of men and women graduate from medical school, but only a fraction of leaders in the field are female physicians. Women make up 80 percent of the healthcare workforce, but they are vastly underrepresented when it comes to leadership roles, according to an editorial in the Harvard Business Review.

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) has successfully slashed readmissions for heart failure, acute MI (AMI) and pneumonia without causing mortality increases, according to an analysis of Medicare data published in JAMA Network Open.

Radiologists are inconsistent with their usage of the American College of Radiology’s Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) category 3, according to new research published in Academic Radiology.

California Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed the state’s breast and ovarian cancer screening legislation, AB 2342.

California Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed the state’s breast and ovarian cancer screening legislation, AB 2342.

Etta Pisano, MD, has been named chief research officer of the American College of Radiology (ACR). She is the first woman to hold this position for the ACR.

The Jean McLaughlin Women’s Center at Palomar Medical Center in Poway, part of Palomar Health in California, recently unveiled two new 3D breast imaging system and one new breast biopsy system in an effort to “significantly improve” women’s health.

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) has successfully slashed readmissions for heart failure, acute MI (AMI) and pneumonia without causing mortality increases, according to an analysis of Medicare data published in JAMA Network Open. But the author of an accompanying editorial isn’t convinced the results are so positive.