Hamilton Medical announced the recall in July. To date, there have been no deaths associated with the issue. 

The CDC recently reminded hospitals and nursing homes about the hard-to-kill yeast’s penchant for preying on patients who have tubes, catheters or weakened immune systems.

DentaQuest, the second-largest dental benefits administrator in the U.S., suffered the record-setting cyberattack in May. A notorious ransomware gang has taken credit for the attack. 

The meteoric rise of large-language AI is quietly altering if not effectively upending scientific inquiry. It’s been doing so almost since the technology’s public debut in late 2022. And medical research has been anything but exempt. 

When a doctor tells a patient that his or her symptoms are normal within some given context, the patient may ignore the contextualization and only hear “You’re normal.” As shown in a new study, the partially received message can be a problem. 

Surgeons who not only operate on patients but also conduct impactful research and educate new surgeons tend to have something in common: They began their careers by graduating from a top-ranked medical school—and then stayed inside that rarified healthcare stratum for good.  

One major operation is largely camouflaged—in fact it’s effectively out of sight—but it’s a prime mover in the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown on healthcare fraud. 

Contactless credit-card readers and police radar guns enjoy broad social license to operate just about anywhere. Self-driving cars and flock safety cameras don’t. AI in healthcare? 

The agency announced its appeal of a court ruling it lost to Clover Health, which resulted in the agency recalculating the grades it gave to the payer’s Medicare Part C plans. Other insurers are now asking for the same redo, spurring CMS to appeal the initial ruling.

Users of the popular online betting marketplace can now wager on specific FDA regulatory scenarios, including when Eli Lilly’s new weight loss drug will be approved, or when camizestrant will be given the greenlight to treat breast cancer.

Reps. John Joyce, MD, R-Pa., and Mike Thompson, D-Calif., recently reintroduced the latest iteration of the Medicare Access to Radiology Care Act, also known as MARCA. 

The VueJect ultrasound contrast delivery system was designed to improve workflow efficiency and provide consistency from one user to the next.