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Crystal Phend

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Crystal Phend

Crystal Phend is a contributing editor with 番茄社区, where she's been covering medical news of all stripes since 2006.

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Safer to Hold Off on Intubating Comatose, Intoxicated Patients, Trial Finds

French centers showed faster discharge, fewer adverse events

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Device-Based Therapies for Heart Failure

HFrEF has the most options, but strategies are under development in HFmrEF and HFpEF as well

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For Your Patients: Heart Failure Device Therapy

What to know about implantable cardiac electrical devices

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Lowering the Target for Blood Pressure Is Best, Study Affirms

Huge trial from China reinforces the message from SPRINT for higher-risk hypertensive patients

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DOAC Cuts Stroke Risk From Subclinical Afib

But whether the small absolute gain shown in ARTESiA is worth the bleeds is another question

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Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering Cuts Dementia Risk

Benefit finally proven in clinical trial

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Double Defibrillator More Effective for Obese Afib Patients

Clinical trial affirms a better initial strategy

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No Aspirin Needed After LVAD, ARIES-HM3 Trial Says

Warfarin does a good enough job alone without adding aspirin

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Transfusion Thresholds Square Off in Acute Myocardial Infarction

For patients with anemia, trial suggests the commonly used restrictive strategy might not be best

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What's on the Horizon for Myasthenia Gravis

Cell-based therapies, broader B-cell targeting, and immune tolerance are all in the works

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