Women who develop breast cancer after having had Hodgkin's lymphoma are more likely than other breast cancer patients to have bilateral disease and to die from other causes, say researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, New York in a study report published in the May 16 online edition of the Journal of Clinical

Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI), which owns, manages, and operates outpatient imaging centers in nine states, has appointed Robert V. Baumgartner to the position of Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. Baumgartner, who for the past 10 years had served as CDI’s CEO and director, replaces Kenneth Heithoff, MD, as Chairman. Heithoff

A desire to protect themselves from medical liability lawsuits may be as much of a motivator as patients’ best interests in spurring emergency room (ER) physicians to order tests, reveals a new survey from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). Of roughly 1,800 ER practitioners queried in the survey, more than 50% deemed fear of being

Claiming that it “misses the target” of better care at lower costs, seven U.S. senators have asked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to withdraw its proposed rule governing accountable care organizations (ACOs) established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Radiation emitted by full-body scanners installed at airports is within acceptable levels, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said on Tuesday. The agency performed new tests on the scanners as a follow-up to checks conducted earlier this year. Such checks showed several anomalies, including missing data or calculation errors unrelated

The U.S. Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) has made a critical omission en route to achieving Meaningful Use adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), reveals a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) security audit conducted by the U.S. Office of Inspector General (OIG). The internal audit, the results of which were published

Requirements for obtaining Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval are “uncertain” or “unclear”, say 75% of medical device industry officials who participated in an online survey conducted from December 22, 2010 through February 22, 2011.

Solis Women’s Health, the nation’s largest independent provider of screening and diagnostic imaging services for breast cancer, has appointed James Polfreman to the position of president and CEO. Polfreman will oversee the company as it continues to expand its nationwide network of facilities, which currently serve more than 400,000 patients in