Clearly, something had this peppy puppy in a tizzy, and one commenter agrees. “Well, whatever you did, you had some nerve!” joked @_jaggersoup.
The cancer network panel’s changed language is disappointing, he said, though “better than nothing.”to Zembruski-Ruple, her friends, colleagues, and clients remembered her as kind, helpful, and engaging. “JoEllen was beautiful both inside and out,” said Barbara McKeon, a former colleague at the MS Society. “She was funny, creative, had a great sense of style.”
“JoEllen had this balance of classy and playful misbehavior,” psychotherapist Anastatia Fabris said. “My beautiful, vibrant, funny, and loving friend JoEllen.”A new Food and Drug Administration AI tool that could speed up reviews and approvals of medical devices such as pacemakers andis struggling with simple tasks, according to two people familiar with it.
The tool — which is still in beta testing — is buggy, doesn’t yet connect to the FDA’s internal systems and has issues when it comes to uploading documents or allowing users to submit questions, the people say. It’s also not currently connected to the internet and can’t access new content, such as recently published studies or anything behind a paywall., dubbed internally CDRH-GPT, is intended to help staffers at the agency’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, a division responsible for ensuring the safety of devices implanted in the body as well as essential tools like X-rays and CT scanners.
The division was among those affected by the
While many of the device reviewers were spared, the agency eliminated much of the backend support that enables them to issue approval decisions on time.The report — published May 29 in the
— revealed that a 71-year-old previously healthy woman developed severe symptoms four days after using a nasal irrigation device filled with tap water from an RV’s water system at a campground in Texas.The woman experienced severe neurologic symptoms, including fever, headache, and an altered mental state. Despite medical treatment, she later developed seizures and died 8 days after symptoms began. The CDC stated that investigators with the Texas Department of State Health Services found the presence of Naegleria fowleri in her cerebrospinal fluid following lab testing.
, commonly referred to as brain-eating amoeba, is a single-celled living organism that can cause a rare and almost always fatal infection of the brain called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). According to a CDC, only four people in the U.S. out of 164 from 1962 until 2023 have survived the infection.