Support groups for patients with chronic conditions have been popular for years. The 21st century version of this phenomenon is moving online, where social media is connecting networks of patients so they can offer support and advice to one another.

It’s often said that the healthcare system in the U.S. is “broken.” But how exactly is it broken?

The American College of Radiology (ACR) recognized medical facilities in New Jersey and Maine as the first-ever Diagnostic Imaging Centers of Excellent (DICOE), recognizing a distinctive level of excellence in diagnostic imaging.

Actor Alan Alda, famous for his timeless role as Hawkeye Pierce, MD, offered physicians and scientists a bitter pill. Plain language, says the former host of the PBS series "Scientific American Frontiers," will go far in advancing science and medicine. Alda’s latest gig is a founder and visiting professor of journalism at the Stony Brook University Center for Communicating Science, recently renamed it the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science.

The American College of Radiology’s Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) today announced a partnership with the Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University to offer RLI participants an online executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree.

The American Society of Radiologic Technologists will award Life Member status to one member and bestow the status of Fellow on seven of its members during the ASRT Annual Governance and House of Delegates Meeting in Albuquerque, N.M., June 14-16.

More than 300 radiologic technologists from Michigan visited with lawmakers in Lansing on April 17 to ask them to support expanded professional standards for the state’s personnel who perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures.

The Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute, one of the nation’s leading health care socioeconomic research organizations, today announced the awarding of six research grants to support studies of the role of diagnostic imaging in today’s changing health care payment and delivery structures.