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End of Restrictions, yet Record Number of Infections and Deaths: Global COVID-19 Weekly Highlights

News January 27, 2022

These are the global coronavirus stories you need to know about this week.
Hidden Burden of Severe Aortic Stenosis Far Exceeds Current NHS Capacity

News January 26, 2022
High Street Eye Scan Can Help Predict Future Heart Attack Risk

News January 26, 2022

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Featured Cardiology News & Perspectives

Hong Kong, US, Israeli Data Illuminate COVID Vaccine Myocarditis

Medscape Medical News January 26, 2022

Prevalences, nuances of presentation, and likely clinical course of myocarditis after use of some vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 are in sharper view after additions to the literature this week.
Should We Always Offer CPR?

theheart.org on Medscape January 25, 2022
Celebratory Binge Drinking a Potential Trigger for New-Onset AF

Medscape Medical News January 20, 2022

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Ischemic Stroke Rates Higher in Young Women Than Young Men

Medscape Medical News January 27, 2022
Early, Subtle, Cardiac Changes Tied to Midlife Cognitive Decline

Medscape Medical News January 27, 2022
Uptake Uncertain for Potent New Cholesterol-Lowerer Inclisiran

Medscape Medical News January 27, 2022
'Physiology Fights Back' When People Are Trying to Lose Weight

Medscape Medical News January 27, 2022
'Retinal Age Gap' Linked to Arterial Stiffness and CVD Risk

First Look January 26, 2022
USPSTF Says Evidence Still Lacking for AF Screening

Medscape Medical News January 25, 2022
HF Prognosis Differs According to Iron Deficiency Definition

Medscape Medical News January 25, 2022
Heart Rate-Based Algorithm Feasible to Define Sleep Stage at Home

First Look January 25, 2022

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Should We Always Offer CPR?

Commentary January 25, 2022

The case of an elderly unconscious patient prompts this doctor to question why CPR is the default strategy and brings to mind the hero of a Hemingway short story.
Primary Care Docs Have Role in Hypertension Prevention for Women

Commentary January 27, 2022

Dr Santina Wheat discusses the role and responsibility that family physicians have in preventing/managing hypertension in pregnant patients as well as those of reproductive age who may become pregnant.
This Doc Still Supports NP/PA Led Care … With Caveats

Expert Column January 24, 2022
Jan 21 2022 This Week in Cardiology

Commentary January 21, 2022

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Columnists & Bloggers

Medscape One-on-One Eric Topol on Medscape

Heartfelt with Dr Melissa Walton-Shirley Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD

Life and Times of Leading Cardiologists E. Magnus Ohman, MD

Heart failure and transplantation with Dr Ileana Piña Ileana L. Piña, MD, MPH

The Bob Harrington Show Robert A. Harrington, MD

Heart to Heart with Dr Michelle O'Donoghue Michelle L. O'Donoghue, MD, MPH

Musings from Mandrola John M. Mandrola, MD

Interventional Crossroads With Jaya Mallidi Jaya Mallidi, MD, MHS

Cardiology Blogger Cleveland Francis, Jr., MD

Cardiology Blogger Rachel M. Bond, MD

Cardiology Blogger Christopher Labos, MD, CM, MSc

Cardiology Blogger Jagmeet P. Singh, MD, ScM, PhD

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Journal Articles View All

Another STEP Towards Tighter Control of BP in the Elderly

European Heart Journal January 26, 2022
The Other Ventricle With Left Ventricular Assist Devices

Journal of the American College of Cardiology January 24, 2022
Application of AI to the Electrocardiogram

European Heart Journal January 21, 2022
PROSPECTS and Clinical Implications of Vulnerable Plaque

European Heart Journal January 19, 2022
Prevention of CV and Renal Events in Patients With AF and DM

Europace January 18, 2022
Toward CRISPR Therapies for Cardiomyopathies

Circulation January 17, 2022

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Skill Checkup: Man With History of T2D and New Dyspnea

Skill Checkup January 27, 2022

A 66-year-old man with an 8-year history of type 2 diabetes complicated by peripheral neuropathy and hypertension presents with new dyspnea and profuse sweating. How would you manage this patient?
Fast Five Quiz: IPF Comorbidities and Complications

Fast Five Quiz January 26, 2022
Skill Checkup: A 53-Year-Old Woman Recently Diagnosed With T2D

Skill Checkup January 26, 2022
Fast Five Quiz: Hyperglycemia Associated With Type 2 Diabetes

Fast Five Quiz January 26, 2022

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AHA 2021

November 13-15, 2021 Virtual
WSC 2021

October 28-29, 2021 Virtual
TCT 2021

November 04-6, 2021 Orlando, FL, and Virtual

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Students Ponder Medical Future Having Trained During COVID

Medscape Medical News January 27, 2022

A handful of medical students share pros and cons of training during COVID. They volunteered to fill staffing voids, but also lost out on face-to-face interactions with patients, peers, and professors.
Doc Accused of Killing 22 Patients in the ICU

Medscape Medical News January 27, 2022
What Is Your Experience Using Telehealth?

Medscape Reader Polls January 26, 2022
Medical Thrillers Raise Nearly $90K for Doctors Without Borders

Medscape Medical News January 26, 2022

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Eric J. Topol, MD Medscape Editor-in-Chief

Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Executive Vice President and Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute; Senior Consultant, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

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