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TIM-HF2: Remote Patient Management May Improve Outcomes in HFDespite 'clinical scepticism and feeble guideline support,' growing evidence, including this trial, suggests that telemonitoring
reduces mortality in heart failure, maybe substantially, say two experts.
Medscape Medical News, August 28, 2018
MITRA-FR: MitraClip Comes Up Empty-Handed in Functional MRUpcoming trials will help tease out whether percutaneous mitral valve repair improves clinical outcomes, but observers disagree
over whether implantation should stop in the meantime.
ASCOT Legacy: Long-term Survival Benefit of BP, Lipid LoweringEven after hypertensive patients stop taking blood pressure- and lipid-lowering therapies, they continue to experience survival
benefits a decade later, suggests 16-year follow-up of the ASCOT study.
Bipartisan Spending Bill Promotes Drug-Price TransparencySenators prepare for pushback from the pharmaceutical industry over bid to add price information to direct-to-consumer ads.
They are using a spending bill that also provides an increase for the NIH.
Medscape Medical News, August 27, 2018
FDA Clears First Tretinoin Lotion for Acne (Altreno)Tretinoin 0.05% lotion provided the proven efficacy of tretinoin in a generally well-tolerated formulation; skin dryness,
pain, swelling, irritation, and peeling were reported in 4% of patients or less in clinical trials.
Eric J. Topol, MDDirector, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Chief Academic Officer, Scripps Health; Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
Perspective
What's Driving Physician Burnout in 2018?At a session on burnout at the ESC meeting in Munich, Dr Walton-Shirley heard a first-hand account of a cardiologist who had
a breakdown. The panelists left her hopeful that things will improve.
