The FDA has notified healthcare professionals and their medical care organizations that Revatio (sildenafil, Pfizer) should not be prescribed to children (ages 1 through 17) for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).

The American Medical Association (AMA) has sent letters to Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX ) supporting passage of the Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act, legislation that would block the 25 percent multiple procedure payment reduction to the professional component of advanced diagnostic imaging services.

When it comes to clinical trials assessing devices, the evidence sometimes seems a step behind contemporary practice. That was the upshot of several studies presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Munich this past week.

Five years after its founding, Image Gently has made progress toward its mission to provide open-source educational materials and eliminate barriers to best practices at the local level. Experts reviewed the organizations progress and future goals in an editorial in the September issue of American Journal of Roentgenology.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced that nearly $50 million will be invested in public health workforce development.

The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) Education and Research Foundation and Elekta have named the recipients of the 2012 Elekta Radiation Therapy Scholarship.

Five organizations have been authorized to approve EHRs through the permanent certification program for health IT.

Use of a dedicated 1.5T breast MR system may overcome shortcomings of conventional breast MR such as lack of specificity and relatively high false positive and recall rates, according to a study published online Aug. 24 in Radiology. The improved negative predictive value of these systems also may reduce further testing and costs and may obviate biopsy in some cases.