The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted in its July 24 report that the Supreme Courts decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which altered the legislations Medicaid expansion provision, will lower the laws 11-year cost by $84 billion, due to a reduced number of Americans that will be covered under the Act.

A systematic review of the available literature on patient preferences for CT colonography (CTC) versus colonoscopy has shown that while the majority of studies score CTC as the preferred test, results varied based on patient type and the publishing journals specialty focus, according to an article published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Data analytics provider Atigeo has launched xPatterns Explorer into the U.S. National Institutes of Health's PubMed body of medical research.

The FDA has cleared the Magnetom Spectra 3T MRI system from Siemens Healthcare.

Ultrasound-guided radiofrequency (RF) ablation was well tolerated and delivered a 95 percent tumor ablation rate at one-year follow-up, according to results of single-center, prospective study published in the August issue of Radiology.

Royal Philips Electronics has reported a 5 percent growth in comparable sales over the previous years second quarter, bolstered by 7 percent growth in Philips Healthcare, which produced "a solid sales increase across all businesses and a 22 percent increase in growth geographies, according to the company.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has signed legislation requiring mammography providers to inform patients if dense breast tissue is found during an exam.

Source: University of NottinghamScientists in the U.K. have demonstrated a way to trace reserves of brown fatthe bodys good fatusing heat-seeking thermal imaging, which could lead to a better understanding of the ongoing obesity epidemic, according to a study published online in the Journal of Pediatrics.