The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Friday that they will now review products simultaneously under a new parallel review program.

In a setback for the breast density awareness movement, California Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed legislation that would have required women whose mammograms revealed dense breast tissue to be informed of this fact.

Health care is healthy. The U.S. health care workforce continued to grow faster than any other economic sector last month, even as the unemployment rate held steady at 9.1%, reveals new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Two key imaging groups--The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) and The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC)—are prevailing upon Congress to reject the proposal by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) that Medicare use prior authorization for advanced imaging services.

California's Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) today announced the launch of the first phase of its Medi-Cal Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program. Part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the program will deliver to eligible hospitals and health care professionals as much as $1.4 billion in federal incentive payments

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted clearance to GE Healthcare for its Discovery MR750w wide-bore 3-tesla system with the GEM Suite (geometry embracing method) of coils.

In what could be the first step toward breaking a pattern of annual short-term fixes to the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula that governs Medicare payments, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) today voted to approve a proposal to repeal it.

Consumers’ confidence in their ability to access and pay for health care services rose slightly last month, but concerns remain, according to the Thomson Reuters Consumer Healthcare Sentiment Index.