CardioBrief: Is the American Heart Association Trying to Kill Reporters? Margarine and skim milk in the press room beg the question Nov 15, 2016
AHA: Unnecessary Stress Testing Still Alive And Kicking? More tests given to younger patients in large population study Nov 15, 2016
AHA: Lower Better for Plaque Regression with PCSK9 Drugs No diminishing returns at very low LDL levels in GLAGOV trial Nov 15, 2016
AHA: Real World TAVR Is All About Patient Selection Intermediate risk is a moving target Nov 15, 2016
Statin 'Census' Shows Major Disparities Women, minorities treated at significantly lower rates Nov 14, 2016
AHA: Healthy Lifestyle Eases Heart Impact of High Genetic Risk Fewer adverse events, less calcification in pooled data Nov 13, 2016
AHA: No Cognitive Benefit from Heart Drugs in HOPE-3 Substudy finds mental function unimproved by BP, cholesterol treatments Nov 13, 2016 video
AHA: Long-Term Benefit in HF Patients Elusive for Novel Vasodilator Investigational drug ularitide had no effect on mortality or clinical outcomes Nov 13, 2016
AHA: Study Finds Celebrex Safe for Heart But naproxen not as heart safe as believed Nov 13, 2016 video
TCT: Orsiro No Better Than EES for CTO Also, injectable collagenase eases PCI for CTO in trial Nov 04, 2016
TCT: Amulet LAA Occluder Hot on the Heels of Watchman Another LAA closure device shows favorable results in trial Nov 03, 2016
TCT: Novel Drug-Coated Balloon Promising for Periphery Stellarex beat angioplasty alone in fairly complex PAD population trial Nov 03, 2016
Aneurysm Sealing Device Hits Hurdles Migration, endoleaks, and aneurysm growth cited for novel Nellix device Nov 02, 2016
TCT: TAVR Holds Up Pretty Well Over Time Also, 2-year data confirm lasting improvements in QoL Nov 02, 2016
TCT: For Heart Devices, Will Lag Moving from Europe to U.S. Wane? FDA Commissioner and E.U. representative talk change Nov 02, 2016
TCT: Embolic Protection Flops for TAVR New brain lesions or clinical strokes unaffected in SENTINEL trial Nov 01, 2016
TCT: Trials Split on PCI vs CABG for Left Main Disease NOBLE hands advantage to surgery, EXCEL finds noninferiority Oct 31, 2016
TCT: Advantage of Novel DES Over BMS Grows With Time For high bleeding risk patients, rationale for BMS continues to shrink Oct 30, 2016
CardioBrief: Impella No Better Than IABP in Cardiogenic Shock Underpowered IMPRESS trial shows no mortality benefit Oct 30, 2016
TCT: OCT Guidance Doesn't Undersize Stents, Trial Shows Also found dissection, malapposition that IVUS missed Oct 30, 2016
Treadmill Test Scoring Better With Gender as a Factor New sex-specific score predicted women's mortality more accurately Oct 26, 2016 video
FDA Warns of Testosterone Abuse Adverse events tied to abuse include heart attack, heart failure, and stroke Oct 25, 2016
U.S. Obesity Crisis: Is the Wrong Omega-X Mix Responsible? Ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 in Western diet is 16:1 Oct 25, 2016
Pearls From: Roxana Mehran, MD Interventional cardiologist discusses acute kidney injury reduction Oct 14, 2016 video
FDA Warns on Cardiac Surgery Heater-Cooler Device Cites mycobacterial contamination risk Oct 13, 2016
CardioBrief: LDL-Lowering Genetic Variants Linked to Diabetes Risk What can genetics tell about diabetes incidence with cholesterol tx? Oct 06, 2016
CardioBrief: Trump's CV Event Risk Seven Times Bigger Than Clinton's Cardiologist speculates on coronary calcium scores disclosed by the candidates Oct 05, 2016
Billion Dollar Lab Scam: The Beat Goes On Yet more fallout from the catastrophic bankruptcy of HDL Lab Sep 22, 2016
Slow Medicine: Is 'Hypertensive Urgency' Outdated? No need to over-react to a common dx that's not tied to major CV events Sep 22, 2016
HFSA: Clinical Benefits Tied To Lung Monitoring Persist HF rehospitalization, deaths remain reduced up to 4.5 years Sep 21, 2016
HFSA: Did LAP Monitoring Cut HF Rehospitalizations? LAPTOP-HF investigators tried to make sense of terminated study Sep 19, 2016
Longer-Term Home Use Safe for Artificial Pancreas System 3-month study might pave way to FDA clearance Sep 16, 2016
The Lancet Versus BMJ: A Dispatch From the Statin Wars The editors of the two top U.K. medical journals are in a bitter fight Sep 15, 2016
Switching GLP-1 For DPP-4 Improves Net T2D Outcomes Victoza bests Januvia for combo therapy on A1c, weight, hypoglycemia composite Sep 13, 2016
How Sweet: Sugar Industry Made Fat the Villain Harvard researchers received sugar industry money to write a NEJMreview Sep 12, 2016
JACC Retracts AF Ablation Trial Lead author Andrea Natale claims undue industry influence Sep 11, 2016
Sudden Cardiac Death Risk Seen With Thyroid Dysfunction Risk seen even at top of normal range for thyroid hormone Sep 06, 2016
ESC: Medical Therapy Adequate for Plaque Erosion Pilot study suggests stenting not needed in uncomplicated cases Aug 31, 2016
ESC: Savaysa Safe for Afib Cardioversion ENSURE-AF trial finds similarity to standard anticoagulant regimen Aug 31, 2016
