American Medical Association (AMA) President Cecil B. Wilson, MD yesterday testified before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, urging Congressional leaders to reform the “deeply flawed” Medicare physician payment formula. Also known as the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), the will trigger a drastic physician payment cut of nearly 30%

Transcription services remain in high demand among U.S. healthcare institutions, according to the results of a study conducted by CapSite.

FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A. has announced the availability of pediatric wraps for its FCR Go 2 portable digital x-ray system. Intended to lessen anxiety among young patients undergoing x-ray exams, the wraps come in four different motifs—bear, baby bear, sea, and jungle.

Despite the widespread use of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for treating tumors in the body, its theoretical advantages have yet to be confirmed clinically, reveals a report that appeared yesterday in the online edition of Annals of Internal Medicine.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday announced that it has granted Sectra clearance to market its Sectra MicroDose Mammography L30 low-dose digital mammography unit for sale in the U.S.

The likelihood that patients with intermittent caludification will undergo revascularization is highest when those patients are treated by cardiologists and vascular surgeons, even if exercise is the preferred approach, according to research to be presented this week during the American Roentgen Ray Society’s annual meeting in Chicago.

In the midst of a hostile, $6-per-share, $3.3 billion takeover bid for rival Tenet Healthcare, Community Health Systems (CHS) last Thursday defended itself against Tenet’s allegations of improper patient admission practices, calling them “contrived and biased.” The move follows a lawsuit filed by Tenet on April 11, in which it charged CHS—whose

GE Healthcare late last week announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Applied Precision, Inc., a supplier of cellular imaging technologies for the cell biology and biomedical research sectors. The acquisition of Applied Precision will allow GE Healthcare to expand its offering of products and services for pharmaceutical and life