Maui Memorial Medical Center, a 214-bed acute care hospital in Wailuku, celebrated the new computed tomography machine with its imaging team on June 8.
The team’s work will emphasize the role of specialized MRI techniques capable of detecting subtle changes around tumors with the help of pH-based imaging.
The company called the state’s regulation of pharmacy benefit managers “shortsighted,” as it would force the closure of Accredo, a specialty drug dispensary that supplies drugs it says aren’t available anywhere else in the state.
The agency had been suing the three largest pharmacy benefit managers over their alleged control of insulin prices. It reached agreements with CVS’ Caremark and Cigna’s Express Scripts earlier this year.
Even before the onset of COVID-19, data suggested that rads’ after-hours workloads had doubled in proportion to the increase in emergency department visits in the years leading up to 2020.
Using an advanced MRI technique, experts were able to measure tissue susceptibility and detect subtle variances in iron levels throughout different regions of the brain associated with memory.
More research is still needed, as this study only included data from a small number of patients, but TAVR was not linked to any severe adverse events or allergic reactions.