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In hospitals serving mentally unstable patients, it’s no easy job to balance sensitive patient treatment with effective worker safety. One U.S. institution has been finding out just how hard it can be. 

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Primary care providers can significantly improve practice performance as well as patient satisfaction by making one workaday adjustment: leaving some appointment slots open to accommodate walk-ins throughout the day. 

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"Prasugrel provided the optimal balance between efficacy and safety," researchers noted in a new meta-analysis. 

The systems' deaeration hoses in the X-ray tube cooling units may be vulnerable to degrading over time, preventing them from properly cooling and leading to oil leaks. 

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The new AI-enabled resource works like a search engine and delivers answers in seconds.

Insulet Corporation has announced a voluntary recall for specific lots of the pods associated with its Omnipod 5 Automated Insulin Delivery System

A total of 24 adverse safety incidents—including cases of diabetic ketoacidosis—have been linked to this issue.

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However, no significant difference was seen in heart failure hospitalization rates. The study's authors emphasized that more research on this topic is still necessary. 

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Physicians from all specialties, not just cardiology, have been hoping for legislation like this for years.

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Updated data suggest that artificial intelligence is playing a growing role in the specialty medical students choose to pursue. 

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Researchers explored data from nearly 800 patients, focusing on a wide variety of outcomes.

Devi Nair, MD, director of electrophysiology and research, St. Bernards Medical Center and Arrhythmia Research Group, explains how she uses concomitant left atrial appendage occlusion during EP procedures, and talks about new LAAO devices and ICE imaging.

Devi Nair, MD, spoke to Cardiovascular Business about her own experience using concomitant LAA occlusion as an add-on to catheter ablation procedures.

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Despite these investments, hundreds of thousands of reports are still delayed by at least one month, new data show.

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In hospitals serving mentally unstable patients, it’s no easy job to balance sensitive patient treatment with effective worker safety. One U.S. institution has been finding out just how hard it can be. 

Primary care providers can significantly improve practice performance as well as patient satisfaction by making one workaday adjustment: leaving some appointment slots open to accommodate walk-ins throughout the day. 

"Prasugrel provided the optimal balance between efficacy and safety," researchers noted in a new meta-analysis.