Conference News

How PAs Can Avoid Malpractice: Go Back to Practice Basics A thorough medical history that focuses on diagnostics can help PAs steer clear of medical errors and their legal ramifications, a medico-legal consultant advises.
News, May 23, 2022
APA 2022 A Psychiatric Patient Confesses to Murder: Now What? A Philadelphia case report offers lessons in handling an unusual dilemma where, an expert notes, law and medical ethics didn't present a clear-cut solution.
News, May 23, 2022
EuroPCR 2022 ACURATE neo2 Paravalvular Leaks Plummet vs Predecessor New real-world registry data comparing the redesigned valve to the first-generation ACURATE neo suggest that small changes can lead to big improvements.
News, May 23, 2022
When Should Those With End-Stage Kidney Disease Forego Dialysis? Australia and the UK have long had programs whereby some elderly patients with end-stage kidney disease, or those with many comorbidities, opt to forego dialysis, but the US has lagged behind.
News, May 23, 2022
APA 2022 Can a Novel Med School Curriculum Curb the US Opioid Epidemic? A curriculum focused on opioid education improves knowledge and confidence about pain management and opioid prescribing among medical students, new research suggests.
News, May 23, 2022
ESC-HF Moderate to High Alcohol Use May Push 'Pre-HF' Into Clinical HF Also, no protection was evident at any alcohol-intake level among STOP-HF trial participants who were initially at risk for heart failure but without echocardiographic signs of the disease.
News, May 23, 2022
EuroPCR 2022 Mixed Interim Results for Combination Imaging in CABG Patients The GREECE study is investigating whether use of noninvasive coronary CT angiography can reduce use of invasive angiography when making treatment decisions for patients with previous bypass surgery.
News, May 23, 2022
APA 2022 Anxiety in America: COVID 'Takes a Backseat' to Global Events Recent events, including the war in Ukraine, racially motivated mass shootings, or the effects of climate change, are weighing more heavily on Americans' minds this year than the pandemic.
News, May 23, 2022
DDW 2022 CRC Screening: Blood Test Accuracy Compared to Colonoscopy More than 550 people had blood taken at the time of colonoscopy to judge the sensitivity and specificity of a serum assay.
News, May 21, 2022
ESC-HF Voice-Analysis App Promising as Acute-HF Early Warning System It could potentially help guide heart failure therapy to avert acute decompensations, researchers say. 'But of course, we have to show that now in larger and randomized clinical studies.'
News, May 21, 2022
AACE 2022 Debate Continues on Combination Therapy for Hypothyroidism Clinicians shouldn't dismiss patients who complain about residual symptoms despite TSH normalization with levothyroxine, say thyroid experts who have rekindled a long-running debate at the AACE meeting.
News, May 20, 2022
ATS 2022 COVID Burnout? Turn Off Your Mind, Relax, and Float Downstream A randomized trial showed that transcendental meditation can relieve burnout-related stress and emotional exhaustion.
News, May 19, 2022
EuroPCR 2022 JenaValve Trilogy Takes Another Step Forward in Severe AR The TAVI system met both the primary safety and efficacy endpoints in the first real-world study since its recent approval in Europe. A pivotal trial in ongoing in the United States.
News, May 19, 2022
EuroPCR 2022 LYDEN: Better Hemodynamics With Evolut vs Sapien in ViV The self-expanding and balloon-expandable valves were comparable, however, on other outcomes in the challenging setting of small failed surgical valves.
News, May 19, 2022
AUA 2022 AUA 2022: A Report From the Trenches Colorado urologist Henry M. Rosevear, MD, offers his take on the scientific highlights of this year's annual meeting of the American Urological Association.
News, May 19, 2022
EuroPCR 2022 Noninvasive Approach to Revascularization Decisions Shows Promise The noninvasive quantitative flow ratio (QFR) approach showed substantial agreement with the more invasive classical fractional flow reserve approach in the DECISION QFR study.
News, May 19, 2022
ACMS 2022 Post-Mohs Bleeding Risk in Patients on Ibrutinib for CLL Studied Two studies evaluated the risk, with results indicating that holding the treatment before and after surgery helps reduce the risk for bleeding.
News, May 18, 2022
EuroPCR 2022 One-Month DAPT Enough for Complex PCI if Bleeding Risk High Latest data from the MASTER DAPT trial show similar results in the subgroup of patients who underwent complex PCI as in the main trial.
News, May 18, 2022
ESOC 2022 High IL-6 Levels Linked to Carotid Plaque Severity, Progression Increased circulating levels of interleukin 6 are linked to increased carotid plaque severity and progression, say researchers who also identified a way to select patients for anti-IL-6 therapy.
News, May 18, 2022
AACE 2022 Biotin: Good for Hair and Nails, Bad for Thyroid Lab Tests New study supports prior finding that about 7% of the population uses products containing biotin in doses high enough to interfere with many laboratory tests, including those of thyroid function.
News, May 18, 2022

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