MedPage Today) — Christopher Sheerer, DO, a pediatric cardiac anesthesiology fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, who was accused of possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material, was fired from his job. (NBC Boston) A jury awarded…
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Cada año más de 356,000 personas sufren un paro cardíaco fuera de un hospital. Cada minuto que pasa sin intervención médica disminuye las probabilidades de supervivencia en un 10%…
MedPage Today) — It might take giving people money directly for them to participate in cardiac rehabilitation, a randomized trial showed. Eligible patients in Vermont of lower socioeconomic status had cardiac rehab adherence rates shoot up if…
Further, the health system’s cardiac MRI services grew by 42% – which significantly improved access to specialized care for patients, says AdventHealth’s VP of imaging services…
An electronic health record (EHR)–based nudge intervention could reduce potentially unnecessary sentinel lymph node biopsies (SLNB) among older women with early-stage breast cancer, the authors of new research say. Participating surgeons noted that the reminder system added minimal friction to their workflow, as it did not require additional clicks or actions on the day of
There’s still much to learn about how doxorubicin, a 50-year-old chemotherapy drug, causes its most concerning side effects. While responsible for saving many lives, this treatment sometimes causes cardiac damage that stiffens the heart and puts a subset of patients at risk for future heart failure…
MedPage Today) — Unlike a behavioral intervention, nasal sprays were effective in reducing days of illness among high-risk groups vulnerable to respiratory infections, a large randomized controlled trial found. In primary care settings across…
MedPage Today) — Researchers made a case for failure to rescue (FTR) as a potential quality metric in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), using records from a large nationwide registry. Although PCI is considered a safe procedure for the…
MedPage Today) — The Mediterranean diet improved cardiometabolic health among kids and teens, a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials affirmed. Interventions following the diet’s characteristic emphasis on fruit, vegetables, olive oil…
Top line results from a phase 3 trial of vutrisiran (Amvuttra), a new drug from Alnylam for the treatment of transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy, are positive, according to the company. The HELIOS-B study met the primary endpoint, showing a statistically significant reduction, compared with placebo, in the composite of all-cause mortality and recurrent cardiovascular events