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• AHA 2023 AI Voice Analysis App May Detect Worsening HF Early Voice analysis with an app that uses artificial intelligence may provide early warning of acute decompensated heart failure, researchers suggest. But these are early days, a cardiologist cautions.
  Medscape Medical News, November 22, 2023
• AHA 2023 'Smart' Stethoscope Spots Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Screening with an AI-enhanced digital stethoscope doubled the diagnoses of life-threatening peripartum cardiomyopathy in Nigeria, where the incidence is the highest in the world.
  Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2023
• More Preterm Babies Survived After Delayed Cord Clamping Deferring umbilical cord clamping reduced deaths before discharge by around 30%.
  Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2023
• Asundexian Phase 3 AF Study Halted for Lack of Efficacy The phase 3 OCEANIC-AF trial of the factor XI inhibitor asundexian (Bayer) has been stopped early owing to inferior efficacy vs apixaban in preventing stroke and systemic embolism in patients with AF.
  Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2023
• Role of Hydrocortisone, Fludrocortisone in Septic Shock Twenty years after abandoning hydro/fludro for septic shock, Dr Holley will use it again, with some reservations.
  Medscape Critical Care, November 20, 2023
• Use the Stool! Fecal Transplants Help Kids With C Diff The American Academy of Pediatrics endorsed fecal transplants to eliminate a particular infection in children and called for more research about other uses.
  Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2023
• Before Signing an Offer Letter: Read This You just received an offer letter, but should you sign it right away? How legally binding is it? Is it the same as a contract? Experts weigh in.
  Medscape Medical News, November 17, 2023
• WHO: Smoking Cessation Reduces Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Up to 40% A policy brief details the risks of smoking in type 2 diabetes — along with the benefits of cessation; health professionals urged to help patients quit.
  Medscape Medical News, November 17, 2023
• New Consensus Guide on Rare Drug Hypersensitivity Reaction Experts provided parameters to help clinicians, but they acknowledged the limited evidence base for drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms.
  Medscape Medical News, November 17, 2023
• AHA 2023 AI-ECG Gets STEMI Patients to Cath Lab Sooner An artificial intelligence electrocardiography app cut catheterization lab activation times by 9 minutes in ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients.
  MDedge News, November 16, 2023
• FDA Approves CorMedix's Drug for Bloodstream Infections The FDA approved CorMedix's antimicrobial drug for reduction of catheter-related bloodstream infections in patients with kidney disease, allowing the company to launch its first commercial product.
  Reuters Health Information, November 15, 2023
• A Mid-Marathon Cardiac Arrest, an MD's Crisis of Confidence A doctor reeling from a career-changing crisis finds himself staring down at a cardiac arrest victim during the New York City Marathon — and does the only thing he knows how to do.
  Medscape Medical News, November 16, 2023
• Infographic: Careers That Tempt Doctors to Leave Medicine Physicians who are thinking about leaving the practice of medicine reveal which nonclinical career options most interest them.
  Medscape, November 15, 2023
• Trial Shows Utility of Small-Volume Blood Collection Tubes A large Canadian clinical trial has found that using small-volume tubes to collect blood samples for laboratory testing of ICU patients can reduce blood transfusions without affecting lab results.
  MDedge News, November 15, 2023
• The Future of Medicine Is RNA   Short interfering RNA drugs could be the next big game changers in pharmacotherapeutics.
  Medscape, November 13, 2023
• COVID-19 Antivirals Can Trigger Viral Rebound Though antivirals are critical for reducing severe COVID-19 symptoms, researchers suggested that the medication may not always be needed for milder cases.
  Medscape Medical News, November 13, 2023
• Artificial Womb Brings Tough Choices, But Who Tests It?   The artificial womb that is being developed could potentially save very premature infants, but testing it raises many issues.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, November 13, 2023
• AHA 2023 Better Postpartum BP Control With Self-Monitoring: POP-HT Self-monitoring blood pressure during the early postpartum period resulted in lower BPs and could prevent later cardiovascular events in women with hypertensive pregnancies, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, November 12, 2023
• AHA 2023 Dropping Aspirin Cuts Bleeding in LVAD Patients A randomized trial evaluating vitamin K therapy with aspirin or placebo with a left ventricular assist device shows avoiding aspirin reduced bleeding without increasing thrombotic risk.
  MDedge News, November 12, 2023
• AHA 2023 In MI With Anemia, Results May Favor Liberal Transfusion Although the primary outcome was not statistically different between a liberal and more restrictive transfusion strategy, secondary results suggest some advantages for the liberal approach.
  Medscape Medical News, November 11, 2023