The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation have estimated that the direct spending and revenue effects of enacting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act incorporating the managers amendment would yield a net reduction in federal deficits of $132 billion between 2010 and 2019.

Representatives of the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center have rejected claims by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that the center committed eight regulatory violations in connection with a series of brachytherapy treatments for prostate cancer in which patients received incorrect radiation doses.

The projected estimated costs for cardiovascular disease and stroke treatments in the U.S. will reach $503.2 billion in 2010, which is a 5.8 percent increase over the previous year, according to the Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics2010 Update, published online Dec. 17 in Circulation.

A jury last week ruled in favor of SenoRx, a manufacturer of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment devices, in a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Hologic.

The nations capital can encourage physicians to buy EMR systems, but it is the vendors and hospitals that affiliate with physicians that will ultimately determine if they go electronic, according to a new report from healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information.

The internal affairs unit of the Detroit Police Department teamed up with the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion on Tuesday in the investigation of two recent incidents involving medical record theft that took place this fall from health programs within the city.

The U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday passed a $636 billion defense appropriations bill, which included a provision to delay the 21.2 percent reduction in Medicare physician payment until March 2010.

Ghent University Hospital in Ghent, Belgium, has completed its first radiotherapy treatment using RapidArc radiotherapy technology from Varian Medical Systems.