March 22, 2010 - The American College of Radiology (ACR) announced today it strongly opposes the current medical imaging cuts contained in The Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872), which would immediately raise the imaging equipment utilization rate assumption from a 50 to a 75 percent rate.

March 19, 2010 - To alleviate the effects of the global molybdenum shortage, a national network of 47 radiopharmacies will receive 18F Sodium Fluoride (NaF) free of charge from between March 22 and April 9, 2010. Participants in this trial program will receive 18F NaF, provided by PETNET Solutions Inc., a subsidiary of Siemens Medical Solutions USA, for only a nominal delivery fee.

March 17, 2010 - After 2015, incentive payments for meaningful use will no longer be issued, according to the proposed implementation of the Medicare/Medicaid program on meaningful use of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology. Physicians outside of hospital settings who are not meaningful users would be penalized with incremental payment reductions unless exempted.

March 17, 2010 - Researchers found a two-week break in radiation therapy for patients with stage I small cell lung cancer, who have gone through surgery, reduced patients' symptoms without adversely affecting cancer survival, reports the February issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.

March 16, 2010 - As part of the second installment of funds under the State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the federal government will allocate an additional $162 million to states to pay for technology to implement electronic medical records (EMR).

March 16, 2010 - The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) has re-elected American College of Radiology (ACR) officials to lead the United States in making policy on radiation protection and measurements in medicine.

March 16, 2010 – Preliminary results from the single-center study suggest that compared to SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), flurpiridaz F18 PET MPI has a higher diagnostic specificity for detecting right coronary artery disease and a higher accuracy for evaluating the extent of stress-induced myocardial perfusion abnormalities with coronary angiography as the gold standard.