The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) recently published a new chapter outlining minimum standards for preparing, compounding, dispensing and packaging sterile and non-sterile radiopharmaceuticals that are part of state-licensed activities.

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is championing bipartisan legislation introduced Wednesday, June 5, that would reduce prior authorization practices found to delay patient access to necessary cancer treatments.

The approach uses a linear electron accelerator and naturally-occurring molybdenum-100, eliminating the need for a nuclear reactor or enriched uranium.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating a handful of healthcare companies over potentially using intermediaries to set up bribes with Chinese government and hospital officials to sell medical equipment, according to reporting by Reuters.

A 2017 update to LI-RADS included an algorithm for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) screening and surveillance on ultrasound. While HCC remains the sixth most common cancer, the clinical performance of US LI-RADS for diagnosing the disease has yet to be studied.

Adding MRI to mammography screening for breast cancer detects more cancers, but results in more unnecessary biopsies, according to a June 4 study published in Radiology.

“Factors driving the lack of gender, racial, and ethnic diversity in radiology and radiation oncology are poorly understood,” wrote Pari V. Pandharipande, MD, MPH, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues in a recent JACR study.

The president of Portable Radiology Services in North Canton, Ohio has been indicted for defrauding Medicare and Medicaid of nearly $2 million for billing x-ray services that were never rendered, reported Cleveland 19 News.

“Because this language model can so rapidly adapt to existing training labels, these results should not be considered the final work but rather a foundation upon which iterative improvement can be performed,” wrote the author of a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Carestream recently signed three multi-year contracts for  more than $25 million to implement its Vue Clinical Collaboration Platform and digital radiography solutions for healthcare facilities in the Emilia Romagna, Liguria and Molise regions of Italy.