Patients who suffer minor ischemic stroke or a transient ischemic attack (TIA) can lower the risk for a major stroke within 90 days by taking both clopidogrel and aspirin, according to a study published online May 16 in The New England Journal of Medicine.

A new partnership between University College London Hospitals and the Alan Turing Institute aims to start using artificial intelligence (AI) to perform certain tasks typically carried out by doctors and nurses.

University College London Hospital (UCLH) and the Alan Turing Institute in London have entered a three-year partnership to allow artificial intelligence (AI) to perform a variety of clinical tasks otherwise done by nurses and physicians.

Children who experienced partial readmission of new-onset type 1 diabetes had significantly lower total cholesterol levels and LDL cholesterol levels compared with non-remitters four to five years after diagnosis, according to a single-center study published May 16 in PLOS One.

Thomas Miller has led Quorum Health since it was spun off from Community Health Systems in 2016. Like other for-profit hospital operators, it has run into financial issues in recent years—it closed or divested of 10 hospitals since the spinoff and has targeted up to $215 million in additional sales of assets after reporting a net loss of $98.5 million in the first quarter of 2018.

Though not the guideline-recommended route for treatment, select breast cancer patients could benefit greatly from MRI screenings designed to identify brain metastases, according to a research letter penned this month by Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center experts and published in JAMA Oncology.

A team of scientists found therapeutic treatment using radiopharmaceutical I-131 mIBG can effectively mitigate symptoms of certain neuroendocrine tumors and resulted in improved prognosis for patients with symptomatic progression, radiographic response or stability and biochemical response.

Kent’s move to the 504-bed Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, comes after more than 25 years of experience within the health system.

Reuters reports HCA’s proposal would essentially reverse Envision’s 2016 merger with AmSurg. The rest of the $5.1 billion Envision would be taken over by KKR.

A new discovery involving diamonds may significantly cut costs related to medical imaging and drug-discovery devices, according to a team of researchers led by the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of California, Berkeley.