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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. 

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A new role at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center is improving the diagnostic process for both patients and providers. 

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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Western medicine often functions more like a high-tech patient-processing machine than a high-touch people-healing mission. This can and must change, argue three distinguished healthcare thought leaders. 

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The FDA has identified another safety concern with Johnson & Johnson MedTech's Automated Impella Controllers. This comes after the devices were linked to five separate recalls in 2025. 

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Experts are hopeful that the vision language model can support radiologists tasked with interpreting cardiac magnetic resonance imaging exams.

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The Alliance for Aging Research wants CMS to go through with policy changes that could make many more patients eligible for TAVR. The agency is currently considering the changes, and a final decision is expected in June. 

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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.