The FDA has widened an existing Class 1 recall of a popular infusion pump to include a greater number of units than it previously deemed problematic. The affected product line, Sigmas Spectrum model 35700, may fail to function properly in a number of ways while also failing to issue an alarm.

 There was a familiar cast at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging informatics in Medicine in Orlando, Fla. As in previous years, Katherine Andriole, Paul Chang, Keith Dreyer, Ramin Khorasani and Eliot Siegel and other imaging informatics giants shared their knowledge with an eager audience. This year, the statesmen (or statespeople) of SIIM shared the stage with a group of newcomersthe millennials, who offered a fresh and futuristic perspective.

Bryan Sivak has been appointed the new chief technology officer for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Sivak, currently Maryland's chief innovation officer, replaces Todd Park who was named federal chief technology officer in March.

The transition to digital mammography has not solved the challenge of missed cancers in screening mammography. The percentage of missed interval and screen-detected cancers was comparable in film and digital programs, according to a study published online June 14 in Radiology.

Cardiac imagers who use CardioGen-82 generators face a potential crisis that is limiting their abilities to examine cardiac patients and maintain regular lab volumes, Howard C. Lewin, MD, of Cardiac Imaging Associates in Los Angeles, explained in an interview.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a review of all available scientific data related to the environmental risks of breast cancer, and while the report investigated a number of consumer products linked to the disease, the most significant conclusion was that exposure to ionizing radiation is one of the leading environmental factors most strongly associated with breast cancer, according to an analysis of IOMs findings published online June 11 in the Archives of Internal Medicine (AIM).

The number of Americans with a history of cancer will grow to almost 18 million by 2022, up from an estimated 13.7 million today, driven by improving cancer survival rates and a growing, aging population, according to a report from the American Cancer Society in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO), in a recent analysis of previous recommendations for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), found that the IRS has implemented one of four recommendations made in June 2011 to strengthen the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) efforts by scheduling the development of performance measures for the PPACA program.