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Follow-up care after a successful heart transplant can be challenging—both for providers and their patients. Consider, for example, the fact that so many patients who develop complications never actually present with symptoms.  

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“Radiologists are well-positioned to contribute evidence-based guidance, promote transparency, and help patients make informed decisions," experts write in Clinical Imaging

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Lumexa hopes to open between 8 to 10 newly constructed, “de novo” centers in 2026, including multiple ones built in partnership with UPMC. 

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Vanderbilt experts have developed an assessment called MyProstateScore 2.0, which they say performs better than regular PSA-based testing and MRI for monitoring low-risk disease. 

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Private-equity acquisitions of primary-care provider practices neither alter hospitalization rates nor affect acute-care outcomes, according to new research out of Brown University. 

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Epic makes the list with its enterprise inpatient EHR and related platforms. So does PCC, aka Physician’s Computer Company, which supplies pediatric-specific ambulatory EHR and practice-management products and services. 

Siemens Healthineers nabs FDA clearance for 6 new IR systems

Each device comes equipped with a new AI feature designed to deliver high quality imaging at lower radiation doses during IR procedures.

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The overuse of CT scans on kids could be owed, at least in part, to the fear of missing a critical finding, new research suggests.

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ACR, the American Society of Neuroradiology, all 50 state medical societies and numerous others wrote to members of the U.S. House and Senate to express their frustrations on May 11. 

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The former proprietor of a pharmacy in New Jersey was caught billing federal insurance for prescriptions of the antibiotic Dificid at $4,000 a pop, despite providers never ordering the pills. He pleaded guilty to charges of healthcare fraud conspiracy in November 2025.

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Do: Use large-language AI to help analyze your specific symptoms. Don’t: Ask a chatbot if you should go to the emergency room.

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If Congress doesn’t act soon, CMS’s flexible funding of telemedicine visits—a temporary holdover from the COVID era—will dry up next year. A new study may help persuade fiscally cautious representatives not to let that happen.

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Follow-up care after a successful heart transplant can be challenging—both for providers and their patients. Consider, for example, the fact that so many patients who develop complications never actually present with symptoms.  

“Radiologists are well-positioned to contribute evidence-based guidance, promote transparency, and help patients make informed decisions," experts write in Clinical Imaging

Lumexa hopes to open between 8 to 10 newly constructed, “de novo” centers in 2026, including multiple ones built in partnership with UPMC.