A clause under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) would eliminate the future expansion of physician-owned hospitals, curbing healthy competition and possibly diminishing access to patient care, according to an August policy perspective by the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Health Imaging will host a series of free virtual conferences focused on effective solutions and strategies to meet the economic, informatics and regulatory needs of imaging stakeholders.

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland have developed a cryo-imaging technique to view a mouse model of glioblastoma multiforme, according to a study published online Aug. 23 in Cancer Research.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is soliciting proposals for an EHR system from alliant contract holders.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted a biomedical engineer $2.5 million to establish how various health factors add up to pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). From this, she and her team will develop a way to separate PAH patients who will be helped by regular exercise from those whom it might harm.

The University of Rochester in upstate New York has opened a $10 million research and fabrication facility to develop microscopic materials for various industriesincluding healthcare.The Integrated Nanosystems Center, or URNano, will bring together experts in optics, chemistry, biomedicine and bioengineering to work on everything from energy systems to implantable biomedical devices.

McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, has unveiled its newly expanded Nuclear Research Building, which includes a new cyclotron facility and improvements to the McMaster Nuclear Reactor (MNR) Building.

The Quebec College of Physicians will re-read 4,500 mammograms from three clinics based on the recommendations of two medical investigators.