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Heated tension between state and federal AI regulators is coming, predict two attorneys subspecialized in AI startup success, data privacy and cybersecurity.

Valcare Medical’s Amend Transseptal System for mitral regurgitation

The Amend device from Valcare Medical has a closed ring shape similar to the annuloplasty rings used to treat MR during open-heart surgeries. These early patients will be followed for a total of five years.

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A growing chorus of academic physicians, policy experts and public health specialists is harmonizing behind the idea of licensing medical GenAI models like they’re doctors or nurses.

The use of intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is still safe and effective when patients present with calcified nodules (CNs), according to new long-term data published in EuroIntervention.[1] Researchers compared outcomes from patients with and without CNs, highlighting key similarities in stent expansion and luminal gain.

Researchers explored data from more than 1,000 patients with calcified coronary artery disease who required plaque modification. IVL and atherectomy were linked to comparable success rates, but adverse events were less likely with IVL.

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Cardiac complications after noncardiac surgeries are a significant concern, especially as patients keep living longer and surgical volumes continue to rise.

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The federal government recently released new data pertaining to the landmark legislation, meant to protect patients from receiving unexpected medical bills. 

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That’s according to the results of a new survey of academic U.S. imaging leaders, published Jan. 28 in JACR

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The Minnesota-baed imaging group called the continued contract with three major winter sports organizations a “coup” for the company. 

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If all American voters were single-issue deciders and the cost of healthcare were their issue, Democrat candidates would win the mid-term elections handily. But loyalists of the donkey party shouldn’t be smug around their elephant counterparts. 

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Authors of a new paper caution that integrating CDS tools “is as much an organizational and cultural process as a technological one."

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Early research suggests a single injection could reduce both brain damage and inflammation if delivered after a patient experiences a stroke. Much more research is still needed, but the new therapy showed significant potential. 

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The program creates a network of accredited sites where radiation oncologists can complete the final regulatory requirements needed to become authorized users for RPT.

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Heated tension between state and federal AI regulators is coming, predict two attorneys subspecialized in AI startup success, data privacy and cybersecurity.