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Throughout the last 50 years, SIR has enabled the specialty to grow in an evolving healthcare landscape, providing IRs with the education, resources, and support required for members to thrive,” said Lewandowski. “As As we look forward, SIR remains committed to fostering healthcare innovations that improve patients’ lives worldwide.”
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These insights highlight the existing inequality in healthcare provision during weekends in patients who undergo TIPS procedures,” Li and colleagues wrote. TIPS is an interventionalradiological procedure used to bypass the portal vein system.
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