Medicaid spending is below target in the current fiscal year and initiatives adopted have saved the state of New York nearly $600 million, according to information from the New York State Medicaid Redesign Team.

For a quarter of a century, October has been designated as National Breast Cancer Awareness month. The last 25 years have been marked by incredible progress, including a 30 percent reduction in the breast cancer death rate since 1990, the introduction of digital mammography and the availability of more personalized treatment options.

A new study compares patient outcomes at hospitals accredited by The Joint Commission (TJC) with outcomes for the same treatments at hospitals without TJC accreditationand finds the former handily outperforming the latter across the board.

CorMatrix Cardiovascular, which develops extracellular matrix (ECM) biomaterial devices for cardiovascular tissue repair, has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market its CorMatrix ECM for carotid repair.

A proposed guidance document from the Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF) recommends standardizing conformity assessments for four medical device classes. The recommendations take into account the relative potential of each class to cause user or patient harm.

A new supplement to the Journal of Alzheimers Disease, Imaging the Alzheimer Brain, contains 31 papers that discuss the advances in imaging methodologies that are being used to understand, diagnose and treat Alzheimers disease.

Imaging rates are increasing in EDs, fueled by growth in the utilization of CT, according to a report published in the October issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

UT Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Health & Hospital System have been selected by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to receive a $6.3 million grant to work on improving screening for colorectal cancer.