The former director of the CDC Thomas Frieden, MD, has been arrested for forcibly touching a woman and sexual abuse and harassment, multiple news outlets reported.

Mammography screening is down among younger women since the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updated its breast cancer screening guidelines in November 2009, according to a recent study published in JAMA Surgery. This includes women with a history of breast cancer.

To help combat the recent resurgence of black lung disease in U.S. coal miners, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, recently introduced bipartisan legislation to increase participation in federal programs that treat or detect the disease through lung cancer screening, including lung CT scans.

The embattled Canberra Hospital in Australia is facing more scrutiny for being forced to send all inpatient CT scans to external providers last week due to unplanned leaves, the Canberra Times reported.

A JAMA analysis of more than three million non-Medicaid hospitalizations has found states that opted to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act years ago are now seeing lower rates of uninsured hospitalizations for major heart events.

Canberra Hospital in Canberra, Australia, was forced to outsource all inpatient CT exams to an external provider for a full week due to “an unplanned leave” within the radiology department

Nupur Verma, MD, with the radiology department at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and two colleagues explored how a radiologist can become more persuasive in an Aug. 23 commentary in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Health insurance and services provider Humana has teamed up with the University of Chicago Medicine in a value-based agreement to offer coordinated, patient-centered care to Humana’s Medicare Advantage (MA) members.