New Guidance Updates Ultrasound Use for Psoriatic Arthritis
WASHINGTON — New draft guidance on the use of musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) for diagnosis, monitoring, and prognosis of psoriatic arthritis ...
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Reconditioned Pacemakers Expand Access
Reconditioned pacemakers are as safe as new ones, and work just as well, preliminary results from the My Heart Your ...
AI Can Do Whole Echo Reports, Improve Efficiency
CHICAGO -- Artificial intelligence (AI) assistance for echocardiography is becoming better validated and proving mettle for clinical use. AI-fed echocardiography ...
Spironolactone Misses the Mark in Acute MI Without HF
CHICAGO -- A mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA) was unable to further improve 3-year outcomes of acute myocardial infarction (MI) in ...
Is DOAC A Viable Option After Bioprosthetic Valve Surgery Even in Sinus Rhythm?
CHICAGO -- Edoxaban (Savaysa) appeared at least on par with warfarin for 12-week thromboembolic prophylaxis after bioprosthetic valve surgical implant ...
Two Treatments That Don’t Work for Osteoarthritis
WASHINGTON -- If you're looking for nonsurgical osteoarthritis (OA) treatments with fewer side effects than ordinary pain relievers, two randomized ...
Big Blow to Anticoagulation Strategy Against Afib-Related Cognition Problems
CHICAGO -- Researchers failed to prevent cognitive impairment in people with existing atrial fibrillation (Afib) by going the route of ...
Novel CRISPR-Cas9-Based Promising in ATTR Cardiomyopathy
CHICAGO – A CRISPR-Cas9-based investigational therapy was linked with a drop in serum transthyretin (TTR) levels in patients with transthyretin ...
Low-Dose Steroids Prevent GPA Relapse, With Caveats
WASHINGTON — Patients with granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) completely tapered off prednisone have a more than fourfold risk of relapse ...
‘Not a Good Choice’: What We Heard This Week
"Not a good choice." -- Wendell Primus, PhD, visiting fellow at the Brookings Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy in Washington, ...
AI Makes Echocardiography Faster, More Accessible
Artificial intelligence (AI) helps produce echocardiograms more quickly and efficiently, with better-quality images and less fatigue for operators, shows the ...
New Guidance for Musculoskeletal Ultrasound With RA
WASHINGTON — After more than a decade, the American College of Rheumatology has developed new draft guidance for the use ...
Where There’s Wildfire Smoke, There’s Respiratory Infection
Meyer is an emergency physician and former director of disaster preparedness for a large healthcare system. Myers is a practicing ...
Expert-Backed Tips for Revitalizing Dystrophic Nails
LAS VEGAS — After antifungal therapy for fungal nail disease, some dystrophy may persist, which can be addressed by several ...
B-Cell Depleting Drug Shows Benefit in IgG-Related Disease
WASHINGTON — The B-cell depleting agent inebilizumab (Uplizna) dramatically reduced the risk of flares and increased year-long remission of IgG4-related ...
Zoster Vaccine Found Effective, Safe in Autoimmune Patients
WASHINGTON -- Individuals with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and multiple sclerosis (MS) had fewer herpes zoster (shingles) attacks if they ...
Intense Blood Pressure Lowering Benefit Confirmed in Diabetes
CHICAGO — An intensive treatment approach to lower systolic blood pressure to a target of 120 mm Hg in patients ...
Northamptonshire nurse said she would’ve drowned patient at birth
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilThe Nursing and Midwifery Council ruled Kathleen Alexandra Warmington had committed serious misconduct A mental health nurse ...
