The former “Shark Tank” panelist and current co-owner of Cost Plus Drugs on Aug. 19 defended members of the specialty against claims they will be replaced by artificial intelligence. 

The practice and its technology services division have inked a lease to become a key piece of Nashville Yards, a massive mixed-use development in the “heart of the nation’s healthcare capital." 

New York-based Imagen Technologies says the additions include 2 new associate CMOs and section chiefs across cardiac care, musculoskeletal imaging and interventional radiology. 

Carolina V. Guimaraes, MD, joins one of the nation’s largest pediatric health systems after five years with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was division chief of pediatric radiology. 
 

The imaging agent is being developed as a noninvasive option for patients whose renal masses have been identified on CT or MRI but remain difficult to characterize.

Experts have developed an RT device they say can be inserted intraoperatively during tumor removal surgery to help slow regrowth in patients with these fast-growing, aggressive brain tumors. 

If confirmed by the Senate, Heidi Overton, MD, PhD, would replace Marty Makary, MD, who resigned in May. Overton, who is associated with the America First Policy Institute, is an outspoken opponent of the abortion drug mifepristone.

Sen. Ben Ray Luján, a stroke survivor, introduced the new bill. If passed, it would direct the federal government to study how stroke care is delivered in the United States and fund efforts aimed at improving treatments, data collection and public awareness.