Fogarty created many inventions that fundamentally changed cardiac surgical practice. He also received the Presidential Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama in 2014.

The CDC has gone ahead and changed its recommendations for childhood immunizations. The gnashing of teeth has only just begun. 

The biggest investor in a nursing home chain can run but not hide from comeuppance for the chain’s alleged role in harms—including deaths—done to hundreds of patients.

Effective Dec. 10, Brett Brodnax, Bridget Karlin, Matthew Lungren, MD, and Robert Mittl, MD, joined Lumexa’s board of directors. 

Cynthia R. Moran joined the organization in 2003 after previously spending a decade as director of government relations with the American Academy of Ophthalmology

Democrats want to keep Obamacare going. Republicans want to replace it, ideally with health savings accounts. Regardless of which approach holds sway this week—or whenever—either one would be woefully shortsighted. 

ASE President David Wiener detailed some of the many ways imaging societies need to adapt now that so many imagers are specializing in multiple modalities. It may be time to change how annual conferences are scheduled, for example, so that the costs of travel are easier to manage.

Weill Cornell Medicine recently explored the impact of meal-time outings in fostering physician job satisfaction, empathy and sense of connection.