Healthcare regulators in the country’s fourth most populous state are getting barraged with complaints about hospital understaffing.

Three months after an FDA panel declared a popular cold remedy no more effective than a sugar pill, a House oversight panel wants to ask FDA leadership a pointed question: What took you so long?

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It may hold that applying established people/process/technology principles can help hospitals move AI from experimental research settings to regulated clinical practice.

Interventional cardiologist David Kandzari, MD, performed the procedure just days after the device received full FDA approval. 

"This practice has been adopted by multiple organ-procurement organizations and is used on thousands of organ donors each year, without ever having been rigorously studied," one researcher said. 

A week later, the 30-hospital, six-state system is still working to assess the intrusion and repair any damage.

The COVID-19 pandemic shaved 2.4 years off U.S. life expectancy, and the population has yet to fully recover from the setback.