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• TCT 2018PADN-5: Ablation Reduces Pulmonary Hypertension in HF Pulmonary artery denervation improved hemodynamic and clinical outcomes at 6 months, but design flaws in the sham-controlled study may muddy the results, a clinical trials expert cautions.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018
• Value of Invasive Procedures for Knee, Back Pain Questioned A new meta-analysis provides little evidence to support use of invasive interventional procedures for chronic knee and low back pain, researchers conclude.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018
• TCT 2018Indirect Annuloplasty Device Reduces Mitral Regurgitation In REDUCE-FMR, mean regurgitation volume was significantly decreased in HF patients receiving the Carillon mitral contour system vs sham-operated controls, despite a less severely ill population.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018
• Does Hypothyroidism Explain Mona Lisa's Smile? The unusual appearance and enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa may be because she suffered from hypothyroidism following a pregnancy, say two experts in a new analysis of the famous painting.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018
• It's Personal: EASD Focuses on Individualizing Diabetes Care Providing data for clinicians to help individualize diabetes treatment is one aim of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) 2018 Annual Meeting.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018
• Black Patients Miss Out on Promising Cancer Drugs A ProPublica analysis found that black people and Native Americans are underrepresented in clinical trials of new drugs, even when the treatment is aimed at a type of cancer that disproportionately affects them.
  ProPublica, September 2018
• Lay Patient Navigators a Boon to Latinos With Advanced Cancer Latinos with advanced cancer often counter barriers to palliative care, but community-based patient navigators can help in a culturally sensitive manner.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018
• Treatable Traits in Severe Asthma Can Predict Attacks Patients with severe asthma were more likely to have asthma attacks when they had one or more of 10 traits identified, compared with those with nonsevere disease, a study has found.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018
• TCT 2018COAPT Stuns, Resurrects MitraClip in HF With Mitral Regurgitation After a dismal showing in the recent MITRA-FR study, dramatic reductions in heart failure hospitalizations and death had even the researchers asking, 'Why are the COAPT results so different?'
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018
• TCT 2018LEADERS FREE II Supports Biolimus Stent for High-Risk Patients LEADERS FREE II shows that results from the European LEADERS FREE trial apply to patients on 'both sides of the Atlantic' who have a high bleeding risk and need a coronary stent.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018
• TCT 2018TALENT: Indian-Made Supraflex DES Flexes Muscle Against Xience Results suggest clinical parity for the novel stent in an all-comers population, but its low-cost price tag has implications stateside, as well as in India.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018
• TCT 2018'Ridiculous' (in a Good Way) Results With Novel Stent Both BIONYX and SORT OUT IX trials showed Resolute Onyx and BioFreedom stents noninferior to the Orsiro device, but stent thrombosis with Resolute Onyx was called 'ridiculously low' by one commentator.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018
• TCT 2018IMPERIAL: Slow-Eluting Stent Outpaces Standard for Fem-Pop Lesions Although the randomized head-to-head results for the investigational Eluvia stent were broadly welcomed in a field described as having a plethora of therapies but a paucity of data, caveats were raised.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018
• Grade Group Better Than Gleason Score for Predicting Prostate Cancer Outcomes
  Reuters Health Information, September 2018
• Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Not Tied to Drug Resistance HIV-negative men who receive pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with tenofovir (TDF) and emtricitabine (FTC) do not develop resistance to these drugs, according to new findings from the IPERGAY ANRS trial.
  Reuters Health Information, September 2018
• Australia Doctors Warn 'Humanitarian Emergency', Seek Access to Pacific Camp Australian doctors said on Thursday a "humanitarian emergency" is unfolding at an Australian-run detention centre in the Pacific and they asked for government permission to treat asylum seekers at the remote facility.
  Reuters Health Information, September 2018
• For HER2+ Breast Cancer, Anthracyclines and Trastuzumab Are Safer in Sequence Treating operable HER2-positive breast cancer with anthracyclines and trastuzumab in sequence works as well as giving them together, and it's safer, researchers suggest.
  Reuters Health Information, September 2018
• Plot, Poison, or Curse? Ebola Rumours Spread in Congo
  Reuters Health Information, September 2018
• Mom's Past Trauma, Altered Stress Response Tied to Low Birthweight in Boys Women who have experienced traumatic stress in their lifetime and have an altered stress response are at increased risk of delivering a low-birthweight baby, new research shows.
  Reuters Health Information, September 2018
• Guidelines Recommend Fecal-Microbiota Transplant for Recurrent or Refractory C. Diff New joint guidelines from the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) and Healthcare Infection Society (HIS) support the use of fecal-microbiota transplant (FMT) as second-line treatment for recurrent or refractory Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), but not for any other indications.
  Reuters Health Information, September 2018