Mitchel is a reporter for MDedge based in the Philadelphia area. He started with the company in 1992, when it was International Medical News Group (IMNG), and has since covered a range of medical specialties. Mitchel trained as a virologist at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, and then worked briefly as a researcher at Boston Children's Hospital before pivoting to journalism as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow in 1980. His first reporting job was with Science Digest magazine, and from the mid-1980s to early-1990s he was a reporter with Medical World News. @mitchelzoler
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HRS: Consider ablation for asymptomatic atrial fib
ORLANDO – The Heart Rhythm Society’s revised atrial fibrillation consensus statement said ablation of asymptomatic cases may be considered.
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VIDEO: Anticoagulant underprescribing common, jeopardizing atrial fib patients
Drug-prescribing data show many patients with atrial fibrillation are underdosed with anticoagulants, often due to fears about bleeding.
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VIDEO: Lean body mass linked to atrial fib etiology
ORLANDO – A groundbreaking 2017 Danish study linked new onset atrial fibrillation to higher lean body mass rather than directly to obesity.
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Mutations linked to checkpoint inhibitor response in RCC
Researchers find potential way to predict immunotherapy responsiveness in renal cell carcinoma and other cancers.
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Acute kidney injury linked with doubled inpatient VTEs
TORONTO – Which comes first: the acute kidney injury or the venous thromboembolism?
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Alcohol use, abuse rise after bariatric surgery
ORLANDO – Better psychiatric screening of bariatric surgery candidates might exclude those with an alcohol abuse risk.
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Alarm reductions don’t improve ICU response times
TORONTO – Cutting back alarm numbers in the ICU did not lead to better alarm-response times at Harlem Hospital.
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Ultrathin bronchoscopy plus radial EBUS unreliable at making diagnoses
Researchers made diagnoses for fewer than half of patients who had their nodules evaluated using ultrathin bronchoscopy plus radial EBUS.
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Phrenic-nerve stimulator maintains benefits for 18 months
After 18 months of treatment with the remede System, patients continued to see the improvements they had experienced after 6 and 12 months of...
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December 2017: Click for Credit
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VA, Kaiser lauded for hypertension control
Systems of care, like the VA and Kaiser Permanente, are reaching hypertension control rates of more than 90%.
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VIDEO: Team approach boosts effective blood pressure control
The guidelines include strong recommendation for using a team-based approach for managing hypertension.
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Empagliflozin’s heart failure benefits linked to volume drop
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VIDEO: Canakinumab’s cardiovascular benefits linked with hsCRP cuts
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – Response in the inflammation marker hsCRP tracked with reduced CVD risk.