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ACC Day 2: Late-Breaking Clinical Trial highlights
Long-term outcomes of a novel heart pump and a look at what happens when copays go away, will be revealed on Sunday.
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MDedge Daily News: High deductibles harm breast cancer care
How high deductibles may lead to harm in breast cancer care.
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Hypertension guidelines unlikely to hold sway with PCPs
Primary care physicians are happy with their own goals.
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ACC Late-Breaking Clinical Trial sessions preview for day 1
Saturday features reports on two highly anticipated trials, ODYSSEY and VEST.
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Young diabetics are at sevenfold increased risk of sudden cardiac death
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – Danish national study is the first of its kind and found fivefold increased all-cause mortality.
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Preparing to respond to workplace violence
SAN ANTONIO – The latest data show that the great majority of workplace violence is perpetrated by individuals outside the organization.
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CMS issues split decision on Arkansas Medicaid waiver
Nine other states have requests pending with CMS to enact a Medicaid work requirement.
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Aspirin may protect against dementia in T2DM
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – Benefit was greater in women than in men in large Japanese study.
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Trial shows ‘signals’ in favor of general anesthesia during EVT for stroke
The results from the randomized trial run “contrary to numerous nonrandomized studies.”
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Adding hypertension in pregnancy doesn’t refine ASCVD risk prediction tool
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – The 2013 ASCVD Risk Calculator doesn’t do a better job of predicting 10-year risk in women when a history of hypertensive...
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200 cardiovascular drugs now in development
Research interest is strong in heart failure and stroke.