The medical imaging community is buzzing over the GE MRI recall—by now, no other words are needed to name it—and the chatter will probably continue for a long time to come.

GE is recalling almost 13,000 MRI units, as the FDA has deemed them potentially deadly.

Citing issues with how the magnetic rundown unit (MRU) is connected to the magnet at some MRI sites, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Class 1 recall for all GE Healthcare MRIs with superconducting magnets, and GE Healthcare is asking its customers to perform a test to ensure that the MRU is properly connected.

On the heels of a Consumer Reports investigation that raised new red flags over radiation risks, a specialty pharma company has announced plans to speed up its march to market a radio-protective compound that could be given to patients about to have CT or x-ray exams. 

Merge, the multispecialty software supplier based in Chicago, is partnering with Nashville-based Emdeon, which specializes in payment management systems, to offer the latter’s radiology customers a way to send electronic referrals and receive radiology reports from users of Merge’s iConnect Network.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new breast-cancer imaging system called the Koning Breast CT (KBCT) system.

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Step into one radiology reading room in Detroit and you may think you’ve been beamed into Captain Kirk’s bridge inside the Starship Enterprise.