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This channel newsfeed includes clinical content on treating patients or the clinical implications in a variety of cardiac subspecialties and disease states. The channel includes news on cardiac surgery, interventional cardiologyheart failure, electrophysiologyhypertension, structural heart disease, use of pharmaceuticals, and COVID-19.   

A TAVR procedure being performed at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. These structural heart procedures require a team approach.

Is TAVR too common among younger, low-risk patients? 2 experts share their concerns

Two experienced TAVR specialists—Sachin Goel, MD, and Michael Reardon, MD—examined the growing trend of younger, low-risk patients being recommended for TAVR over SAVR.

E-tattoo chest heart monitor designed by engineers with the University of Texas at Austin

A key step forward: Engineers take wearable ‘e-tattoo’ technology for heart disease to the next level

The new-look device, which captures ECG and seismocardiogram measurements at the same time, is completely wireless and runs on batteries that last up to 40 hours. 

ChatGPT bests physicians at patient care

AI outplays physicians at informing patients and feeling their pain too

Unexpected empathy: Blinded healthcare professionals consistently scored the AI—yes, a ChatGPT model—higher than the doctors even for bedside manners.

CVRx Barostim illustration

CVRx ‘thrilled’ with Q1 performance as Barostim use continues to increase

The company has seen significant improvements in revenue and the number of centers actively using its technology.

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Nurses return to hospitals after pandemic exodus

Hospitals are seeing a return of the nursing workforce after many left their jobs during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Heart surgeon charged with 'professional incompetency,' harmful practices

The surgeon, who now lives in a different state, has 20 days to respond to allegations made by the Iowa Board of Medicine.

Paul M. Ridker, MD, MPH, director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, and the Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine, cardiovascular medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, who presented the results of late-breaking study on residual inflammatory risk in contemporary statin treated patients. The study used an analyses of 31,197 patients in the PROMINENT, REDUCE-IT and STRENGTH trials. 

What new data can teach cardiologists about statin use and treating inflammation

"If we do not attack the inflammation, we just are not going to get the best outcomes for our patients," one researcher told Cardiovascular Business. 

ChatGPT large language models radiology health care

Radiological AI may never dream of interpreting images—but don’t underestimate its virtual cognitive capacity

In the same year three humans first orbited the moon, 1968, the sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick published Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The novel imagined a dark, futuristic society in which real people couldn’t be readily distinguished from lifelike androids.