Women’s health legislation in New York took another step forward today with the bicameral passage of a Breast Density Inform law that would place more information in the hands of patients.

A pair of AMA policy positions announced yesterday—recommending formally that women should begin having routine mammography at age 40, and that insurers should adjust their policies to reflect this—were met with praise from imaging and disease specialty groups, who added that they should have been a part of the process from the beginning.

Outpatient diagnostic imaging center Lifescan Louisville has been acquired by the large not-for-profit health care system Norton Healthcare.

A new report released by the CDC on breast cancer screening among American women highlights lowering expenditures and improving insurance coverage as keys to improving mammography rates.

Three new AMA policy recommendations were announced today at the annual meeting of the association, including a position that 40 should be the new mandatory age for mammography, and that insurers should adjust their coverages accordingly.

In an effort to curb spiraling healthcare costs, MedPAC, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, proposed a pair of new measures to insulate seniors from price increases while asking those who buy supplemental insurance to kick in a little extra.

Ardis Dee Hoven, M.D., an internal medicine and infectious disease specialist in Lexington, Ky., has been elected president-elect of the American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s largest physician organization. Following her year-long term as president-elect, Dr. Hoven will assume the office of AMA President in June 2013.

Integrated Diagnostics (InDi), an emerging leader in molecular diagnostics, has launched a new operating division, InDi Imaging™, that is creating PET imaging probes using the company’s innovative protein catalyzed capture (PCC) agent technology.