Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed legislation this week that requires insurance plans throughout the state to cover 3D mammography. Rauner signed Senate Bill 466 at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois.

With many in the American medical community joining in the discussion about Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative, the Medical Imaging and Technology Allianace (MITA) released a policy statement outlining the role imaging can play in treating cancer and highlighting the importance of imaging’s inclusion in Cancer Moonshot discussions. 

Connecticut House Majority Leader Joe Aresimowicz was honored by the Radiological Society of Connecticut for supporting legislation that allows policymakers to track access for patients to imaging services. 

A Lafayette, Louisiana, hospital has created a scholarship fund for women pursuing careers in radiology to honor an employee who died in a local theater shooting last summer.

Radiology residents are required to complete a year-long internship before officially beginning their four-year residency—but is this “clinical year” necessary? 

Radiology seems to be the only medical field on which the gender pay gap hasn’t inflicted its presence, according to a new study by Harvard Medical School. Female radiologists tend to make more than male radiologists, researchers found. 

New rules from CMS on payment systems were released July 6, according to a statement from the government agency. 

New Jersey’s breast density legislation was successful in publicizing the potential masking effect of dense breasts, according to a recent study published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Supplemental screening ultrasounds and MRI examinations both became more common in the state after the law went into effect in May 2014.