Novel Stent Gets 'Sweet' Victory in Diabetes Patients SUGAR trial shows superiority of polymer-free stent eluting fatty acid-bound sirolimus Nov 04, 2021
In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Takes Heavy Toll on Public Health Annual disability-adjusted life years analysis rarely applied to SCA, researcher says Nov 01, 2021
Migraine Drug Shows Benefit for Those With Comorbid Depression, Anxiety Real-world study of fremanezumab found that patients were able to reduce antidepressant use Nov 01, 2021
Ethics Consult: Give New Heart to Woman on Death Row? MD/JD Weighs In You voted, now see the results and an expert's discussion Oct 29, 2021
How to Improve Women's Healthcare? Fix the 'Knowledge' and 'Trust' Gaps Women's health complaints aren't taken as seriously as men's, says author Maya Dusenbery Oct 27, 2021
A CAC Score of 0 Is Not a Clean Bill of Heart Health Plaques can still be present if symptoms are involved, especially in young people and women Oct 27, 2021
Reversal, Replacement, and Reassessment in Medicine Three ways medical science progresses and what this has to do with aspirin Oct 27, 2021
No Link Between TRT for Hypogonadism and Blood Clots, Study Finds But findings don't conclusively debunk DVT risk, researcher says Oct 23, 2021
Too Many TAVR Centers Are Clustered Around Well-to-Do Communities More centers not the answer to geographic, socioeconomic disparities in access? Oct 22, 2021
No Benefit to Intensifying Diabetes Meds at Hospital Discharge Older adults discharged with intensified regimen had higher risk of severe hypoglycemia Oct 21, 2021
Antibiotics Used in Dialysis Patients Linked With Sudden Cardiac Death Should floxacins stay or should they go in these patients? Oct 20, 2021
CPR on a COVID Patient: Not a Moment to Waste Looking for PPE Updated AHA guidance says resuscitation should not be delayed by mask availability Oct 14, 2021
Exposure to Certain Phthalates Tied to All-Cause, CV-Related Death Common chemicals in shampoo, cosmetics also linked with billions of dollars in lost productivity Oct 13, 2021
Signs Point to Half-Dose DOAC Route After Watchman Procedure Search continues for best antithrombotic strategy after LAA closure Oct 13, 2021
FDA Nudges Restaurants, Food Manufacturers to Cut Sodium Voluntary guidance aims to reduce Americans' sodium intake by 12% Oct 13, 2021
Anesthesiologists May Edge Out Nurses for Rapid Response Outside the ICU Physician-led teams at Cleveland Clinic tied to declines in cardiac arrests, death Oct 12, 2021
Study: Kids Exposed to Harmful Plastics During Heart Surgery Are tubing and blood bags sources of trouble? Oct 09, 2021
Back-to-Back Recalls for Medtronic Insulin Pumps Class I recalls on 600 series pumps and 500 series remotes Oct 06, 2021
Fewer Deaths After Sleeve Gastrectomy Versus Gastric Bypass Authors estimate about 540 fewer deaths at 5 years if all patients chose sleeve Oct 06, 2021
Post-TAVR Pacemakers Not All Doom and Gloom A bit of reassurance from Swedish cohort study Oct 04, 2021
Diabetes Risk With Breastmilk, Antidepressants, Weight Loss A roundup of noteworthy research from the EASD 2021 meeting Oct 04, 2021
Some Epilepsy Drugs Linked to Cardiovascular Disease Long-term use of enzyme-inducing antiseizure medications raises risk Oct 04, 2021
Post-Vax Myocarditis Fairly Benign Even in a Diverse Population Experience of California health system suggests cases do not disproportionately affect minorities Oct 04, 2021
Are Restaurants Exacerbating the Obesity Epidemic? Poor nutritional profiles and oversized portions are expanding America's waistline Oct 02, 2021
Gender Differences Seen With CV Prevention in Diabetes Clues from post-hoc analysis of the REWIND trial Oct 01, 2021
Remote BP Monitoring Dips a Toe Into Post-Acute Care Hypotension emerges as a risk in pilot study Sep 30, 2021
Why Bariatric Surgery's Mortality Risk Is Higher in Men Age, worse overall health at operation time appear to play a part Sep 30, 2021
Could a Bisphosphonate Prevent Type 2 Diabetes? Study finds association between alendronate use and future diabetes risk Sep 30, 2021
BP Care in Black Barbershops Successfully Taken Up in Nashville Los Angeles protocol adapted to a different city amid the COVID pandemic Sep 29, 2021
Healthy Lifestyle Keeps Dementia at Bay in Patients With Diabetes Maintaining control of risk factors neutralized excess dementia risk Sep 29, 2021
More Evidence for Taking Blood Pressure Meds Before Bed? Circadian BP patterns linked to long-term survival in people with diabetes Sep 29, 2021
Proxy Measure of Insulin Resistance Predictive of Stroke Study found relationship between estimated glucose disposal rate and first-time stroke Sep 29, 2021
A Student Drank 2L of Energy Drink a Day: Here's What Happened to His Heart Let's talk about energy drink-induced cardiomyopathy Sep 28, 2021
FDA Probes LAAO; Dairy Fat's Heart Benefit; Repatha OK'd for Pediatric HeFH Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine Sep 28, 2021
Can CV Fat Predict Cognitive Function in Women in Midlife? Quality of fat, not quantity, was tied to working memory, researchers say Sep 26, 2021
More Severe Congenital Heart Disease Tied to Lower IQ in Kids IQ reduced by 10 points compared with healthy peers Sep 24, 2021
Migraines Linked With Hot Flash Severity in Menopause Relationship may be due to both being risk factors for cardiovascular disease, researcher said Sep 24, 2021