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Memo to health execs: If your hospital hasn’t had a C. auris scare yet, odds are quite high that it soon will. 

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When should heart patients be taking daily aspirin? That's just one of the many questions explored in a new scientific statement.

The Class II recall includes nearly 935,000 bottles of a medication that has been on the market for years. 

Terumo OpusWave

The OpusWave Dual Sensor Imaging System captures both IVUS and OFDI, providing users with two complementary views of the coronaries at the same time.

An example of the Novasight Hybrid System, showing its co-registered IVUS (left) and OCT intravascular imaging inside a coronary stent.

This new funding should help the company commercialize its hybrid imaging system throughout the United States.

 Robert Harris, PhD, a machine learning engineer at Virtual Radiologic (vRad), outlined his team's work developing and evaluating a generative chest X-ray machine learning model for use within one of the nation's largest teleradiology practices.

While the technology remains investigational in many practices, researchers say it has the potential to improve diagnostic accuracy, streamline AI development and strengthen radiology quality assurance.

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Radiologist Henry C. Lusane, MD, with Acumen Medical Imaging, interpreted the scans, reporting the mass as benign, a mistake later leading to a terminal cancer diagnosis. 

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The Women’s Center for Radiology, which was acquired by Solis Mammography in January, hired a cybersecurity firm to help investigate the scope of the matter. 

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The House Ways & Means Committee on May 21 unanimously advanced the Provider Reimbursement Stability Act of 2026, which is endorsed by multiple radiology societies. 

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Sens. John Boozman, R-Ark., and Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., are again proposing the Medicare Access to Radiology Care Act, commonly referred to as MARCA. 

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Joshua A. Hirsch, MD, is joining the Los Angeles-based institution from Massachusetts General Hospital, following a comprehensive search process. 
 

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The U.S. Department of Justice says its investigation into the scheme to defraud Amtrak’s employee health plan resulted in 19 prosecutions, all resulting in guilty pleas. For her role in over $2.2M of fraudulent billing, physical therapist Taejin Kim will serve a year in prison.

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Memo to health execs: If your hospital hasn’t had a C. auris scare yet, odds are quite high that it soon will. 

When should heart patients be taking daily aspirin? That's just one of the many questions explored in a new scientific statement.

The Class II recall includes nearly 935,000 bottles of a medication that has been on the market for years.