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Pharmaceutical companies are spending close to $10 billion per year on direct-to-consumer advertising in the U.S. Only the entertainment industry spends more. Is that a good thing? 

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Conavi Medical's new hybrid imaging system simultaneously performs IVUS and OCT.

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Physician burnout rates continue to fall, and the healthy trend comes alongside strong and stable rates of physician job satisfaction.

Heart Rhythm 2025 Heart Rhythm Society President Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD

Heart Rhythm 2026 in Chicago will include a total of 18 late-breaking clinical trials—and that is just the beginning. The four-day event kicks off April 23.

Gregg Stone, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, presented the results of the long-awaited STEMI Door or Unloading time trial, which takes a different approach to first using a percutaneous heart pump to unload the heart 30 minutes prior to PCI interventions to try and prevent common complications and improve outcomes.

Gregg Stone, MD, spoke to Cardiovascular Business about the lessons he and his colleagues learned from the STEMI DTU trial.

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The FDA asked, and Eli Lilly and Company delivered. The company now hopes to secure an additional approval for orforglipron/Foundayo that covers the treatment of type 2 diabetes.

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Of all lawsuits filed against patients in 2024 in one U.S. state, physician practices and other non-hospital healthcare entities accounted for 80% of cases. That’s a complete inversion from just six years prior.  

AI in healthcare

In the three or so years since it burst into healthcare, ambient AI scribe technology has run away with the win in the market-uptake race. What has been the return on investment in all those software packages? 

Brookfield zoo dolphin getting prenatal ultrasound

Allie, a 37-year-old bottlenose dolphin, is reportedly in her second trimester of pregnancy and is giving researchers a unique opportunity to study the gestational period in dolphins. 

The Medtronic SelectSecure MRI SureScan Model 3830 cardiac lead already gained FDA approval for His-Bundle pacing back in 2018. Now, the lead is also approved for left bundle branch area pacing, providing users with another option when treating patients for bradycardia. According to Medtronic, this marks the first time the FDA has approved a device for this indication.

The first patient has been enrolled in a new study of an optimized lead for LBBAP, an area with an explosion of interest in EP as a way to improve patient outcomes.

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An advanced algorithm was trained to evaluate more than 100 different details about the inside of a patient's eye. Its ability to identify high-risk patients was comparable to more traditional techniques, exciting researchers. 

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When appropriately applied in critical care settings, AI can deliver considerable value to clinical staff, hospital management and local communities. In the process the technology may help resolve persistent staffing shortages.

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Pharmaceutical companies are spending close to $10 billion per year on direct-to-consumer advertising in the U.S. Only the entertainment industry spends more. Is that a good thing?