A recent Forbes article revealed General Electric’s (GE) healthcare division plans to partner with Harvard Hospitals to develop artificial intelligence (AI) products for medicine.

Lidocaine buffered with sodium bicarbonate is significantly more comfortable than plain lidocaine when administered for pain control to women undergoing ultrasound-guided core-needle breast biopsies. 

It's pretty simple: if a hospital doesn't have enough people in the area it serves, it closes down. While the population flight from rural areas has stabilized from its 2008 peak, those residents likely aren't coming back soon—meaning hospitals must retain the patients they serve. 

It has become standard practice over the years for imaging providers to maintain data for at least five years, but according to an article published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, perhaps that data should be kept indefinitely. 

In a recent article published in the New York Law Journal, Andrew Kaufman, founding partner of Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan, outlines how to handle hindsight bias when it comes to defending radiology claims.

After collecting data from a group of parents, researchers from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute found that almost two-thirds of parents agreed with policies to ban indoor tanning for those under the age of 18, due to risks including skin cancer.

HHS Secretary Tom Price said he believes the Senate will pass the American Heath Care Act by August, the first indication of a timeline for the bill by the Trump administration. 

The Have-A-Heart campaign has recently been launched by the Image Gently Alliance, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and a coalition of pediatric medicine and cardiology organization, addressing the issue of radiation safety in children with heart disease.