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.

Shady Grove Radiology in Montgomery County, Maryland, has added a new center specifically for breast cancer screening and diagnosis. Shady Grove Breast Center in Rockville is the group's fifth location.

Optimum Mobile Imaging LLC (OMI), a wholly owned subsidiary of IMD Companies, Inc., (ICBU), has been selected as the exclusive imaging provider to two large medical clinics in the Southwest.

Diagnostic Labs, a Burbank, CA-based clinical laboratory and radiology company that works primarily with nursing home patients, has been hit with a whistleblower suit under the False Claims Act.

Malik Juweid, the University of Iowa radiologist who has claimed ethnic bias in the dismissal charges he faces from the university, did little to disavow onlookers of his incendiary temper at a Friday disciplinary hearing.

Starting July 1, a new three-day payment window will cover all diagnostic services for Medicare beneficiaries admitted to wholly owned and/or operated hospital entities, including physician practices.

Philips will begin production of mid-level imaging devices at its first manufacturing center in India, the Wall Street Journal reports--another step into emerging markets for the imaging manufacturer.