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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.   

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Wearable ultrasound patch can monitor BP 4 cm below skin

Scientists have developed a wearable ultrasound device to measure central blood pressure (BP). It performed as well as a current noninvasive technique upon testing, according to a press release.

‘Reassuring’ news: Tainted valsartan didn’t increase short-term cancer risk

Carcinogen-containing valsartan products that were recalled in about two dozen countries over the past few months didn’t significantly raise cancer risk in the short term, according to a Danish registry study published online Sept. 12 in The BMJ.

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How diabetics can prepare for Hurricane Florence

As extreme weather hits the East Coast this weekend, residents are stocking up on nonperishables, buying batteries in bulk and boarding up windows. But storm preparation looks a little different for diabetics, who are forced to consider their medical needs weeks in advance, Everyday Health reports.

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Is ‘time at target' a useful concept for controlling blood pressure?

The concept of “time in range” has been used in warfarin monitoring and glycemic management for diabetic patients, but why hasn't it caught on as a useful metric in controlling hypertension?

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Cerner, Duke partner for new CVD risk calculator app

Cerner and Duke Clinical Research Institute have teamed up to develop a new CVD risk calculator app, the companies announced late this summer—a move they hope will improve shared decision-making between physicians and their patients.

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COAPT, SOLVE-TAVI among major trials at TCT.18

Gregg W. Stone, MD, had the unenviable task of condensing the 255-page agenda for next weekend’s Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting into a handful of highlights during a 12-minute media briefing on Thursday, Sept. 13.

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‘Cardioskin’ T-shirt tracks heart rhythm around the clock

French pharmaceutical company Servier has partnered with Bioserenity to launch a “smart T-shirt” they’re calling the Cardioskin—a wearable innovation that would allow heart patients to monitor their cardiac rhythm throughout the day, the Daily Mail has reported.

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Minimally invasive surgery minus cannulation safe, effective for CHD

Minimally invasive cardiac surgery without peripheral cannulation is both safe and effective for correcting a wide range of congenital heart defects, including mitral valve repair and pulmonary stenosis, according to research published in Heart, Lung and Circulation this week.