Central Maine Healthcare (CMH) in Lewiston recently announced plans to open an outpatient care facility inside a mall in southern Maine—offering imaging services and urgent care, according to the Sun Journal. The system believes its model can lower healthcare costs in the region.

California Gov. Jerry Brown guaranteed the state’s breast density notification program will extend through 2025 after he signed the Dense Breast Tissue Awareness bill (SB-1034) this week.

Stony Brook University in New York will display a plaque posthumously honoring Paul Lauterbur, MD, whose work led to the development of the MRI, in its new engineering building. The university also named a campus street after the late chemist, according to a news release.

Last year, the NHS spent $150 million outsourcing patient scans to cope with the radiologist shortage, according to a 2017 clinical radiology U.K. workforce census report released Wednesday, Sept. 5, by the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR).

History was made in Arizona last week as Steve Ferrara, MD, became the first radiologist congressional candidate to win a contested primary race, according to the American College of Radiology Association’s political action committee (RADPAC).

Swiss-based medical equipment start-up Pristem recently secured more than $14 million to begin producing its digital radiology solution designed to bring technologically advanced medical imaging to low-income countries.

New research from the University of Chicago found that 60 percent of Americans have been surprised to receive a medical bill that they thought would have been covered by insurance. Of these people, more than a third reported surprise charges were related to imaging services.

The U.S. Senate passed a $854 billion “minibus” bill on Thursday, Aug. 23, which includes funding for HHS and an amendment filed by Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, to increase federal screening programs for the detection and treatment black lung disease in U.S. coal miners.