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Researchers awarded $37M to see if Apple Watch can lower stroke risk among AFib patients

Could wearables help AFib patients take fewer blood-thinning medications and reduce their risk of stroke? The team behind a new seven-year analysis hopes to find out. 

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P2Y12 inhibitor monotherapy after PCI similar to prolonged DAPT, new 3-year analysis confirms

Researchers have shared an updated analysis of the SMART-CHOICE study, focusing on major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events—as well as bleeding events—among PCI patients after three years. 

Formidable tumors tamed by genetically modified … herpes?

A genetically engineered iteration of the herpes simplex virus has beaten back several advanced cancers in an early trial.

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Transplanted lungs react to COVID in a distinctive way

Clinicians treating COVID-19 patients who have transplanted lungs and lower airway infection should order molecular testing in addition to, or regardless of, imaging findings.

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A new Alzheimer's drug therapy appears effective. What might this mean for the future of amyloid PET?

Previously, CMS determined that coverage for patients receiving treatment was dependent on their being enrolled in a CMS-approved clinical trial under coverage with evidence development (CED).

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MRI-guided focused ultrasound an effective tool in the fight against Parkinson's disease

The results of a new trial offer “much needed progress” in the treatment of PD, experts involved in the study suggested. 

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New amyloid buster significantly hinders Alzheimer’s advance

An experimental Alzheimer’s drug therapy has slowed cognitive and functional decline by 27% versus placebo in a double-blind, randomized study of 1,795 individuals with early signs and symptoms of the disease.

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For monitoring purposes, AI-aided MRI does what liver biopsy does with less risk, lower cost

Patients with autoimmune hepatitis may be better monitored across disease stages by AI-augmented multiparametric MRI than by liver biopsy, as the imaging has proven less costly and is inherently less risky due to its noninvasiveness.