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Experts agree that most patients younger than 65 should be treated with surgery instead of TAVR. According to a new real-world analysis, however, more and more of these patients are undergoing TAVR.

The WhiteSwell eLym catheter-based device for lymphatic drainage in acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) patients.

This new catheter-based device for lymphatic drainage showed early potential to be an effective treatment option for acute decompensated heart failure.

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Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary is about to become a former FDA chief. The departure comes as no surprise since President Donald Trump OK’d a plan to fire him last week. 

SCAI is inviting younger female interventional cardiologists and fellows within five years of training to participate in the WONDER (Women Exposed to Occupational Doses of Radiation) study.

Concerns about radiation are believed to be a major reason so few women pursue a career in interventional cardiology. Are they right to be worried? SCAI hopes its new analysis can shed some light on this topic. 

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Experts see enormous potential in the delivery of genicular artery embolization, with millions impacted and growing case numbers given an aging population. 

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Jennifer Palmer died at age 34 after cancer spread to her bones, with her family subsequently suing a New York radiologist, alleging she missed sings on an MRI. 

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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.

A wide variety of technologies, including robotic systems, heart valves, stent grafts, retractors and annuloplasty rings, were on display in Chicago.

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This is the first time the FDA has authorized market access for non-tobacco, non-menthol electronic nicotine delivery systems. 

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Matthew S. Davenport, MD, MBA, and Scott B. Reeder, MD, PhD, made their plea to patients and providers in an opinion piece published May 6 in JAMA.

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The California Franchise Tax Board had charged that the rad and his sole proprietorship could be combined to constitute a "unitary business," subject to state taxation.  

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Experts agree that most patients younger than 65 should be treated with surgery instead of TAVR. According to a new real-world analysis, however, more and more of these patients are undergoing TAVR.

This new catheter-based device for lymphatic drainage showed early potential to be an effective treatment option for acute decompensated heart failure.

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary is about to become a former FDA chief. The departure comes as no surprise since President Donald Trump OK’d a plan to fire him last week.