Appropriate Patient Selection for Heart Procedures
New findings from Yale School of Medicine suggest that the decline in the number of patients undergoing unnecessary percutaneous coronary intervention... Read more
Heart Disease, Stroke Invisible to Most Women
Heart disease and stroke continue to be the number one killer of women in the U.S. One in three women die from heart disease and stroke every... Read more
Prevalence of ‘Silent’ Heart Attacks
According to a study published in JAMA, the prevalence of myocardial scars was nearly 8 percent, of which nearly 80 percent were unrecognised... Read more
Study Shows Little Difference Between ‘Old’ and ‘New’ CPR in Cardiac Arrest
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that continuous chest compression (CCC) is not an improvement over standard... Read more
Women Cardiologists: Lower Ranks, Lower Pay
According to a study led by Duke Medicine, there still exist major differences in pay and job characteristics between male and female cardiologists despite... Read more
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Zoom On: Prof. Mamas A. Mamas
Prof. Mamas A Mamas is a structural interventional cardiologist, treating patients with underlying coronary artery with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in both the elective and emergency setting and undertaking Transcatheter Aortic Valve Interventions (TAVI). He is also the Associate Editor of Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions and leads... Read more
Zoom On: Chelsea Beecher - Innovator of the Year
Chelsea Beecher serves as the Director of Development for the American Heart & Stroke Association in New York City. She led the launch of STEM Goes Red in New York City and received the Innovator of the Year Award in 2018 for this initiative. STEM Goes Red aims to empower young women to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)... Read more
How are robots improving cardiovascular medicine?
Robots were first used in cardiovascular medicine in the late 1990s as a part of the digital revolution . Since then, robotics have been applied to endovascular surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, and interventional cardiology, to name a few fields. Robots give medical professionals the ability to diagnose, treat, and intervene more... Read more
From Our Journals
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention 2019: Quo Vadis?
Summary: Cardiovascular disease prevention strategies in 2019 remain... Read more
Rising to the Challenge of Patient-Centred Care
After an hour of describing a recent admission to hospital for treatment... Read more
Visionary leadership
Th e w a y f o r wa r d f or U S... Read more
Where Informatics Meets Medicine
Summary: Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) promises a rich programme... Read more
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Cardiovascular Precision Medicine
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are derived from somatic cells... Read more
Book Review: The Organization of Critical Care
There are not many good books on this topic, and the present one includes cont Read more
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