More Evidence for Cognitive Benefits With Metformin in T2D Prospective study followed more than 1,000 older patients for 6 years Sep 23, 2020
Novel Once-Weekly Insulin Shines for Type 2 Diabetes Phase II study compared with daily insulin glargine U100 Sep 22, 2020
Should You Trust the New Apple Watch on Blood Oxygen Readings? The Skeptical Cardiologist peels back the hype Sep 21, 2020
How Accurate Are Home Blood Oxygen Monitors? The Skeptical Cardiologist examines pulse oximeters labeled not for medical use Sep 17, 2020
Baseball Hall of Famer Dies of Lewy Body Dementia and COVID-19 Understanding Tom Seaver's disease Sep 16, 2020
Cardiology Program Leader Embroiled in Racial Accusations Andrea Natale, MD, raised hackles with tweet Sep 16, 2020
For Cardiac Arrest, Too-Hasty Transport Gets in the Way of Good CPR Study suggests EMS practice is counterproductive Sep 15, 2020
No Rise in Fracture Risk With SGLT2 Inhibition Weight change in type 2 diabetes on these drugs did not increase risk of osteoporotic fractures Sep 15, 2020
Post-COVID Heart Scans Without Symptoms: Not a Good Idea Multidisciplinary group urges against general population screening Sep 15, 2020
Modest Increase in AFib Risk With Osteoporosis Drug Absolute risk was low for patients receiving zoledronic acid versus denosumab Sep 14, 2020
Trial: Drug Induces, Maintains Dementia-Related Psychosis Remission Results pave way for Nuplazid label expansion Sep 14, 2020
Black Barbershop HTN Intervention Gets Telehealth Update Patrons successfully transition from in-person to virtual pharmacist consults Sep 13, 2020
Home BP Monitoring Can Make Inroads During the Pandemic Some hope that at-home readings may find their way to routine care in the COVID-19 era Sep 12, 2020
Ethics Consult: Keep Patient on Feeding Tube After Dementia Dx? MD/JD Weighs In You voted, now see the results and an expert's response Sep 11, 2020
New Recovery Programs Target COVID Long-Haulers Pulmonologists, cardiologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, and more join to get patients on their feet for good Sep 10, 2020
Severe Nosebleeds More Common With Hypertension Korean study supports link between hypertension and epistaxis Sep 10, 2020
Bedside MRI Feasible in ICU, for COVID-19 Study showed abnormalities found without any complications from the device Sep 09, 2020
Long-Term Lung, Health Issues Common in COVID-19 European ski resort cases suggest recovery is often slow Sep 08, 2020
The Real Reason Post-COVID Myocarditis Is a Worry Sorry, it's not all about football, cardiologist argues Sep 08, 2020
Angiography for Cardiac Arrest Survivors: No Need to Rush Findings from 1-year follow-up of the COACT trial Sep 02, 2020
Does Ejection Fraction Matter Anymore? Experts debate whether familiar metric still has a place in heart failure management Sep 02, 2020
ESC Offers Sports, Exercise Guide for Heart Disease Patients Addresses broad spectrum and specific conditions Sep 01, 2020
'Definitive Data': Continuing ACE/ARB Tx Safe in COVID-19 Randomized trial affirms no harm in mild to moderate coronavirus cases Sep 01, 2020
REALITY Check: Stricter RBC Transfusion Safe for Anemic MI Patients Restrictive strategy makes sense for clinical outcomes, costs Sep 01, 2020
Vascepa Mechanism Becomes Clearer... As Do Vessels Treatment tied to regression of atherosclerosis in imaging-based EVAPORATE Aug 31, 2020
Colchicine Scores for CV Secondary Prevention LoDoCo2 trial finds substantial benefit, but questions linger Aug 31, 2020
SGLT2 Inhibitor Wows in Chronic Kidney Disease DAPA-CKD shows fewer renal events, prolonged overall survival Aug 30, 2020
PARALLAX Trial: Mixed Results With Entresto in HFpEF No boost in 6-minute walk test, but some heart failure biomarkers did improve Aug 30, 2020
Antianginal Tx Fails to Make a Difference After Coronary Stenting Prophylactic trimetazidine doesn't enhance optimal medical therapy Aug 30, 2020
Aspirin Alone Best Bet for Majority of Post-TAVR Patients Lessons from DAPT in PCI do not translate to TAVR, researchers find Aug 30, 2020
Low-Dose DOAC Valuable in Afib After Age 80 Randomized trial suggests benefit on par with warfarin in younger groups Aug 30, 2020
Impressive Results With Early-Rhythm Control in AFib Results from EAST-AFNET 4 trial "should and will change practice," expert says Aug 29, 2020
Novel Tx Turns in Favorable Performance in Obstructive HCM Mavacamten tackles underlying pathophysiology of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Aug 29, 2020
Second SGLT2 Drug Scores for HFrEF, Regardless of Diabetes Status EMPEROR-Reduced trial "exceptionally concordant" with DAPA-HF results Aug 28, 2020
Can KCCQ Replace Flawed NYHA System in Heart Failure? Developer's study finds better classification of patients' capabilities Aug 28, 2020
FDA Drops Boxed Warning From Invokana Label Amputation risk "lower than previously described" Aug 27, 2020
Post-COVID Heart Problems Are Real, Despite Study Corrections Conclusions still stand, group says after fixing a raft of data errors Aug 25, 2020
Smoking Gun Found for Virus in MIS-C Heart Damage Case First case report documenting viral particles in the heart in MIS-C Aug 24, 2020
Diabetes Drugs Looking for Broad Role in COVID-19 The mechanisms check out and trials are underway Aug 24, 2020
Dementia Deaths Vastly Undercounted, Study Suggests And as a result, healthcare resources may need realignment Aug 24, 2020
