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Stryker, one of the world’s largest medtech companies, has agreed to acquire a rising name in the field of intravascular lithotripsy. 

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The syringes included in several convenience kits commonly used by interventional cardiologists and interventional radiologists should not be used. If treatment is necessary and no other devices are available, it should be done with “extreme caution and vigilance.” 

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America’s largest radiology group has purportedly considered making a bid to buy its Australian counterpart, which tallied over $176 million in adjusted earnings last year. 

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CHAMPIONSGATE, Fla. — Kaihan Krippendorff, MBA, spoke on April 12 during the opening keynote of the Radiology Business Management Association’s annual meeting. 

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CHAMPIONSGATE, Fla. — Moffatt, currently president of radiology AI and coding firm Reasint, is the 2026 winner of the prestigious Calhoun Award. 

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Radiopharma firm Telix hopes to soon begin selling Pixclara (Floretyrosine F 18), an investigational product for glioma, a type of brain cancer. 

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The 1,100-square-foot space is located at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, a 583-bed acute care facility that treats 80,000 patients per year.

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The four best states for pediatric healthcare are bunched together geographically. The four worst are nowhere near each other.

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Officials are examining how a radiologist's CT findings may have played a part in the untimely death, as the doctor did not notate "swirling of the mesentery" in his interpretation. 

The new AHA initiative is being funded in part by a $1 million donation made by Jennifer Ashton, MD, who became a household name thanks to years of appearances on ABC News, Good Morning America and The Dr. Oz Show, and her husband, TV producer Tom Werner. Ashton is a board-certified OB-GYN and nutrition specialist. She worked as the chief medical correspondent for ABC News and Good Morning America for several years. She is also an author, columnist and longtime AHA volunteer.

Jennifer Ashton, MD, an OB-GYN who became a household name thanks to years of appearances on ABC News and Good Morning America, hopes this new initiative can help cardiologists learn more about such topics as menopause and hormone therapy. 

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Both treatment options were found to be effective in a new meta-analysis of nearly 20,000 patients.  Surgery, however, had the most substantial long-term impact.

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Between 2020 and 2022, the adjusted odds of a radiologist leaving a practice were nearly twice as high (odds ratio of 1.96) as seven years prior. 

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Stryker, one of the world’s largest medtech companies, has agreed to acquire a rising name in the field of intravascular lithotripsy.