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• Shortages, Cost, and Frustration: Quest for the New COVID Shot As the rollout of the newly formulated shot begins in earnest, many Americans are finding roadblocks.
  WebMD Health News, September 29, 2023
• COVID-19 Virus Infects Coronary Vasculature Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is found in coronary arteries of patients who died of COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, September 29, 2023
• Factor XI Inhibitors: Promise of a Safe Anticoagulant? The quest for an anticoagulant that can prevent cardiovascular events without bleeding is something of a holy grail in cardiovascular medicine. Could factor XI inhibitors be the long-sought answer?
  Medscape Medical News, September 28, 2023
• Medscape RN/LPN Compensation Report 2023 RNs and LPNs reveal their annual compensation and work satisfaction, and give perspectives on peers, career paths, and unions, plus other crucial insights.
  Medscape News Slideshows, September 28, 2023
• Newer Antibiotic Effective Against Deadly Staph Infection An antibiotic already in use in Europe to treat pneumonia controlled deadly bloodstream infections with Staphylococcus aureus bacteria just as effectively as the most powerful antibiotic currently in use, according to data from a late-stage trial.
  Reuters Health Information, September 27, 2023
• AMA Funds BP Training for Medical, PA, and Nursing Schools Med students and other healthcare workers, including physician assistants and nurses, don't receive enough BP training. The AMA wants to change that to help reduce cardiovascular disease and stroke.
  Medscape Medical News, September 28, 2023
• How Baseball Led Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to His AFib Diagnosis It wasn’t like one of basketball’s greatest to feel lightheaded, tired, and short of breath. But did he brush off these serious cardiovascular symptoms?
  WebMD, September 28, 2023
• Mold Infections After Organ Transplant From Drowned Donors The transplantation of organs from drowned organ donors could cause fatal invasive mold infections in transplant recipients. Clinicians should consider the potential risk.
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, September 28, 2023
• Cardiac Troponin Predicts Mortality Post Surgery New evidence points to the prognostic value of cardiac troponin T in identifying myocardial injury and subsequent mortality risk after cardiac surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, September 27, 2023
• No Benefit of EC/IC Bypass vs Meds in Large-Artery Stroke Despite surgical advances, adding extracranial-intracranial bypass to medical therapy does not reduce stroke or death in symptomatic occlusion of the internal carotid or middle cerebral artery.
  Medscape Medical News, September 26, 2023
• Medscape Young Physician Compensation Report 2023 Doctors younger than 40 years enjoyed healthy pay increases on average in 2022. They reveal how salary gains affected their job satisfaction as well as the gender pay gap.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, September 26, 2023
• Don't Ask Patients for Donations, ACP Says Clinicians should avoid involvement in grateful patient fundraising, according to a new report from the American College of Physicians.
  Medscape Medical News, September 26, 2023
• Healthcare Workers More Likely to Die by Suicide   Who has the highest suicide rate among all healthcare provider types? A new study answers this question.
  Medscape, September 26, 2023
• People With Long COVID Have Specific Blood Biomarkers: Study 'This is a decisive step forward in the development of valid and reliable blood testing protocols for long COVID,' said David Putrino, PhD, lead author of a new study published in the journal Nature.
  WebMD Health News, September 26, 2023
• A Nomogram to Determine Neurological Outcomes in Cardiac Arrest The authors present a novel nomogram based on clinical characteristics as a tool to predict neurological outcomes in cardiac arrest survivors who are unconscious.
  BMC Anesthesiology, September 26, 2023
• Substance Use in Pregnancy Linked to Adverse CVD Outcomes Pregnant women who use cannabis, opioids, or other substances have higher rates of cardiovascular disease events, including mortality, new registry data show.
  Medscape Medical News, September 25, 2023
• New ACG Guidelines Offer Key Advice on Acute Liver Failure Dr Nancy Reau speaks with Dr Alexandra Shingina, lead author behind the guidelines, about the special considerations required for managing this rare condition.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, September 25, 2023
• Paxlovid Weaker Against Current COVID-19 Variants A real-world study found that Pfizer's COVID-19 antiviral Paxlovid is now less effective at preventing hospitalization or death in high-risk patients as compared with earlier studies.
  WebMD Health News, September 22, 2023
• Sep 22 2023 This Week in Cardiology   Coronary calcium, cardiac arrest survival, Factor XI drug findings, APCs and a potential new board certification in cardiology are the topics discussed by John Mandrola, MD in this week’s podcast.
  theheart.org on Medscape, September 22, 2023
• New AAN, AHA Scholarship Program Honors Ralph Sacco, MD The Ralph L. Sacco Scholarships in Brain Health are supported by a generous bequest to the American Academy of Neurology and American Heart Association from Sacco, who died earlier this year.
  Medscape Medical News, September 22, 2023
• Artificial Intelligence Gives Paralyzed Woman Voice Back A brain-computer interface translates neural signals of a woman who is unable to speak, not only into text on a screen but into audible speech using a digital avatar.
  Medscape Medical News, August 23, 2023
• As MOC Debate Heats Up, Cardiology Societies Weigh In The MOC process is once again under attack by cardiologists and other specialty physicians. A petition aiming to end the requirements has garnered more than 17,000 and counting signatures.
  Medscape Medical News, August 22, 2023
• Deep Brain Stimulation Promising in Post-Stroke Recovery A small pilot study shows DBS to be both safe and efficacious in reducing motor impairment and improving recovery of upper limb function after stroke.
  Medscape Medical News, August 18, 2023
• New Practice Guidelines on Postdural Puncture Headache The guidelines provide a framework for individual clinicians to assess risk, confirm diagnosis and adopt a systematic approach to management.
  Medscape Medical News, August 18, 2023
• Only 1 in 4 Feel Fully Recovered Following COVID-19 Hospitalisation Being female, obese, and having had mechanical ventilation in hospital are all associated with being less likely to feel fully recovered one year after COVID-19 hospitalisation.
  Medscape News UK, April 26, 2022
• Cardiovascular Risk Linked with Severe COVID Risk People with an elevated 10-year cardiovascular risk score are linked to more severe COVID outcomes, in a new study.
  Medscape News UK, April 14, 2022
• Call for Tighter LDL Targets for Highest Risk Patients With multiple new lipid-lowering drugs coming on the market, and European guidelines suggesting lower than ever targets in patients with very high cardiovascular risk, experts say aim for ‘ones not twos’ with low-density lipoprotein (LDL) targets.
  Medscape News UK, November 15, 2021