Neurosurgeon Vitor Mendes Pereira, MD, was in Santiago, Panama, but his patient was in Panama City. "It is the highlight of my career to be involved in this historic achievement," Pereira said.
Almost two in five physicians suffered moral distress in the two weeks leading up to their being asked about it by researchers. That was a markedly larger slice than the team observed in the general U.S. working population.
New findings suggest that the procedure offers effective local control and a favorable safety profile for patients with medically inoperable stage 1A non-small cell lung cancer.
Gadolinium-153, or Gd-153, is routinely used to calibrate nuclear imaging equipment. It has been in short supply since 2023 when global distribution of the radioisotope came to a halt.
Vendor Centerline Biomedical recently initiated the action, removing certain IOPS (Intra-Operative Positioning System) Guidewires, used in vascular procedures, from the market.
Founded in 2019 and based in Chicago, the vendor offers a “leading” infrastructure platform for building, refining and deploying large-scale AI models in medical imaging.
Lines included in the kits were misassembled and could result in a botched blood transfusion. Due to the risk of serious injury or death, the recall has been designated as Class I.
