ImagingBiz.com | U.S. consumer group Public Citizen is alleging that researchers with ties to Eli Lilly and Co. withheld from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) important information that should have been included in a study of Amyvid (florbetapir), an imaging agent for...
ImagingBiz.com | The American College of Radiology (ACR) has launched the Dose Index Registry (DIR), a vehicle to which medical imaging facilities can submit anonymized dose information for all CT exams performed and compare their dose indices to those of other facilities of similar size...
The Wall Street Journal | An 18-year-old man with fever and chills is sent home from the emergency room with Tylenol and later dies of sepsis, a blood infection. A 42-year-old woman with chest pains is discharged, only to suffer a heart attack two hours...
Miami Herald | A proposal to give UM doctors working at Jackson Memorial Hospital state lawsuit protection was approved. In a long-sought move, the University of Miami won a legislative victory on Wednesday when Florida lawmakers agreed to extend state lawsuit protection to university doctors working...
HealthLeadersMedia | Headache as a primary diagnosis prompted more than three million visits to hospital emergency rooms in 2008. More than one third of those patients went because of migraine headaches, which were much more likely to result in an admission, according to a new...