Ablation Bests Drugs for Ventricular Tachycardia After Heart Attack
CHICAGO -- For patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ischemic cardiomyopathy, going right to catheter ablation improved outcomes compared with ...
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JAK Inhibitor Succeeds in Giant Cell Arteritis Trial
WASHINGTON -- Giant cell arteritis (GCA) can be successfully treated with the oral Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor upadacitinib (Rinvoq), allowing ...
What New Warning Is on GLP-1 Drug Labels?
The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage ...
Tirzepatide Officially Puts GLP-1 Meds on the Map for Obesity-Related Heart Failure
CHICAGO -- A long-acting GIP/GLP-1 receptor agonist conferred significant clinical benefit for people with obesity and accompanying heart failure with ...
Intensive Blood Pressure Control Benefits People With Type 2 Diabetes Too
CHICAGO -- The cardiovascular outcome benefit of a tighter systolic blood pressure target was affirmed in patients with type 2 ...
US reports first case of Clade I mpox in California
California has reported the first US case of mpox - formerly known as monkeypox - that is part of a ...
Multiple Chronic Conditions and Death; Diabetes Treatment for Gout
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine ...
Tirzepatide Reduces Heart Failure Events in HFpEF With Obesity
CHICAGO — A new study has shown for the first time that a drug therapy can reduce major heart failure ...
Could Avian Flu Cause Our Next Pandemic?
Claire Panosian Dunavan is a professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA ...
How to Handle a Negative Patient Review
LAS VEGAS — Early in his career as a physician associate in dermatology, Joe Cari, MPAS, PA-C, received a negative ...
