Hospitals across the United States spent approximately $25.4 billion more than necessary this year on supply chain operations, according to a new report from Chicago-based Navigant Consulting. That number is up more than 10 percent compared to 2017.

Breast density notification laws were designed to motivate supplemental breast cancer screening among women at an increased risk. However, they have resulted in more low-risk women undergoing unnecessary supplemental screening, according to new research published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Novartis, a large healthcare company based in Basel, Switzerland, has agreed to acquire Endocyte, a West Lafayette, Indiana-based biopharmaceutical company, for $2.1 billion.

The Orlando-based Florida Hospital health system is launching a new initiative focused on lessening the impact of chemotherapy’s various adverse side effects on the hearts of breast cancer patients.

Researcher J. Quincy Brown, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Tulane University in New Orleans, has been awarded a $1.6 million grant to develop a rapid microscopy scanner that could ensure cancer patients' tumors are completely removed during surgery.

Machine learning (ML) has become one of the hottest topics in radiology and all of healthcare, but reading the latest and greatest ML research can be difficult, even for experienced medical professionals. A new analysis published in the American Journal of Roentgenology was written with that very problem in mind.

A natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning algorithm was trained to evaluate variability in both free-text radiology reports and structured radiology reports, according to new research published in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. The variation was more prevalent in free-text reports.

Gauss Surgical, a Los Altos, California-based healthcare technology company, announced that it raised $20 million in Series C funding to speed up the adoption of its Triton platform and develop new solutions.

At the 60th annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), Oct. 21-24 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Siemens Healthineers unveils the MAGNETOM RT Pro edition for MAGNETOM Sola – a version of the company’s new 1.5 Tesla (1.5T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner that is designed for assistance in radiation therapy (RT) treatment planning. In addition to BioMatrix technology, which addresses patients’ anatomical and physiological differences to overcome unwanted exam variability, the new scanner includes hardware and software that supports optimal treatment planning.

Social media is used by radiologists at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare in Saudi Arabia less as a tool for educational purposes and professional issues and more as a way to communicate with friends and family, according to the authors of new study published in the Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare.