Royal Philips has funneled roughly $164 million (€140 million) into two separate business deals with the Kliniken der Stadt Köln (Clinics of Cologne) and Städtische Klinikum München (Munich Municipal Hospital) in Germany, the company announced this month.

R. Rex Parris, the mayor of Lancaster, California, has proposed the city ban local employees from being required to wear a necktie. The decision, he said, was made after reading about recent imaging research that found neckties can lead to a reduction in cerebral blood flow.

Failure-to-communicate lawsuits are on the rise among radiologists, according to an editorial published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology this month, leaving legal lines of the specialization blurry.

Radiologists have a lot to be excited about in 2018 and beyond. Jim Y. Chen, MD, of the department of radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, explored some recent statistics in a new commentary published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology, detailing what they mean for the specialty this year and in years ahead.

With seven of the country’s 20 most prominent radiology practices having completed business deals within the last 18 months, the field is witnessing more efforts to consolidate and conserve resources than perhaps ever before.

The escalating trade war between the U.S. government and China could lead to an additional $400 million in medical equipment costs each year, according to a new analysis from the American Action Forum (AAF).

Follow-up imaging for women with non-metastatic breast cancer differs widely across the U.S., research out of the University of California, San Francisco, has found. The key factor in discerning patients' follow-up treatment seems to be where they live.

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) announced Friday, July 13, the publication of a revised standard that provides guidelines for measuring and reporting the performance of PET scanners.

The addition of shear-wave elastography to conventional breast ultrasound improves the characterization of low-suspicion masses, according to research published in Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging this month, possibly reducing the need for long-term follow-up and unnecessary biopsies in scores of women. 

Incidentalomas are an ever-increasing presence in imaging, Reuters Health reported this week, but they often do more harm than good, according to a recent review of more than half a million patients.