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When working-age adults develop cardiovascular disease, it often ends up eating up a significant amount of their income. Are insurance companies doing enough to help these patients?
Vascular surgeons play a critical role in today's evolving healthcare landscape. However, researchers noted, they often do not get the respect or appreciation they deserve.
The cardiovascular mortality rate in the United States decreased dramatically from 2000 to 2011. Since then, however, it has remained relatively unchanged.
Burnout remains one of the biggest issues in modern healthcare. More than 1,500 surgeons, including many from the field of cardiac surgery, provided feedback for a new report on that very topic.
Oversizing transcatheter heart valves can improve TAVR outcomes. There is still a reason to be cautious, however, especially when patients are receiving a balloon-expandable valve.
A major medical group with a direct stake in the national debate over gender transitions for minors has come out against providing related clinical measures.
ADP offers care teams multiple benefits not seen with traditional wire-based physiologic assessments. A roundtable of 17 expert clinicians discussed the topic at length, and their findings were used to develop a new manuscript published in JSCAI.
A malpractice lawsuit filed by a gender detransitioner ended Jan. 30 with a victory for the aggrieved former patient. The decision may set a generalizable precedent since this was the first such suit to reach a courtroom—and since 30 or so others are en route.
A growing chorus of academic physicians, policy experts and public health specialists is harmonizing behind the idea of licensing medical GenAI models like they’re doctors or nurses.
Cardiac complications after noncardiac surgeries are a significant concern, especially as patients keep living longer and surgical volumes continue to rise.
If all American voters were single-issue deciders and the cost of healthcare were their issue, Democrat candidates would win the mid-term elections handily. But loyalists of the donkey party shouldn’t be smug around their elephant counterparts.