April 2013

SCAI: New offerings, traditional venues at 2013 meeting ()
Boxed warning notes risk of discontinuing Pradaxa ()
The world's leading heart failure congress: Late breaking clinical trials record number of abstracts ()
Cardiologist Lee leaves Partners for Press Ganey ()
AHA/ASA website focuses on valvular disease ()
FDA OKs drug to reverse warfarin’s anticoagulation effect ()
Feds accuse Novartis of paying docs kickbacks ()
Crowdsourcing helps plot county AED map ()
Community effort pares hospital readmissions ()
Vascular Solutions announces re-launch of Venture catheter ()
TCT: Back beat by the bay ()
CVRx gains full FDA approval for hypertension study ()
Guide steers physicians through anticoagulant quagmires ()
HRS: Societies share goals in joint sessions ()
Stroke leaders: Retain payment for thrombectomy devices in select patients ()
Biventricular pacing bests conventional care in BLOCK HF ()
Patient Management: When ICD Leads Go Awry ()
ESC recommends patients and centres for renal denervation ()
Doctoring Amid Devices ()
HRS.13: Expanding Knowledge & Partnerships ()
A Left-handed Complement to PCI ()
Q&A: Contrast for Stress Echo ()
Smart Care, Smart Savings: Banner Heart Hospital’s Model for Managing Heart Failure & PCI ()
SPECT MPI: The Lowdown on Lowering Dose ()
Carotid Stenting: Where Science & Policy Diverge ()
Vascular Surgery Training: Options & Opportunities ()
Cook recalls Zilver PTX Drug Eluting Peripheral Stent ()
Development & Growth of TAVR in the U.S. ()
The New Normal in Imaging Utilization ()
AHA’s first “accelerated” project headed for development ()
All studies, great and small ()
HRS: Lead management, ablation updates on tap at meeting ()
Shock & awe: Pretreatment plus cell therapy may benefit some HF patients ()
Electrophysiology devices market worth US$4.4 billion by 2015 ()
Achieving success with accountable care ()
Sapien sales tick up but Edwards lowers outlook ()
NICE recommends Xarelto for PE ()
AMA steps up efforts to control hypertension ()
Patient variables may tip scale in multivessel CABG-PCI debate ()
Panel explores workings of global TAVR registry ()
ACC names industry exec CEO ()
Guest column: Planning for physician succession & leadership ()
Penn Medicine researcher awarded prestigious Grand Prix Scientifique by the Institut de France ()
Technique maps heart in 3D ()
Putting D2B on ‘pause’ ()
Wang to lead Division of Cardiovascular Medicine ()
A ‘Stark’ warning ()
Changes to ordering, referring process implemented ()
Improve your practice from the inside out ()
Sicker patients, not PCI delays, may spur some poor outcomes ()
SCAI: 3 late-breaking clinical trials on docket ()
Recognition & rankings ()
Gibson describes Boston cases as battlefield injuries ()
Postsurgical complications may reward hospitals financially ()
Find out if your cath/EP lab is paying competitive wages ()
Data published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions show that OrbusNeich’s COMBO Dual Therapy Stent reaches primary study endpoint and is effective in controlling neointimal proliferation ()
Controls pose challenge in ACC/STS trial ()
15 hospital systems top chart for quality ()
Linking quality care to compensation ()
Chelation therapy: Focus on findings ()
Boston Scientific begins clinical trial to evaluate new pacing system in MRI environment ()
Carolinas HealthCare System performs first-in-human stent graft implantation ()
Osteoporosis drug under review for cardiac risks ()
Endologix board member Roderick de Greef to retire; Thomas F. Zenty, III to stand for election as board member ()
AtheroNova adds new medical advisor ()
RAPID: Effectiveness of antiplatelets not so fast in some STEMI patients ()
Ex-CDC director’s focus on the positive ()
Guides, videos help in care of ACS patients ()
FDA links illegal DMAA to MI, arrhythmias ()
Cardiology takes healthy interest in Twitter ()
President's proposal pinches cardiology staffing, research ()
Canadian diabetes guidelines: Start statins at 40 ()
James Fang, M.D., to lead cardiovascular medicine at University of Utah ()
N.J. cardiologist pleads guilty to $19M scheme ()
Forewarned and forearmed ()
Talk about distribution channels: SCAI on CNN ()
Generic statin sampling proves budget friendly ()
Slides: When a cath lab leader says ‘I quit’ ()
Partnership allows hospitals to barter with device makers ()
Arkansas heart hospital transitions to eClinicalWorks from legacy EHR ()
CardioGuide System enables real-time navigation of left ventricular leads during Medtronic CRT implants ()
Chip to chubbiness: Resistance is futile ()
Past radiation therapy amplifies heart surgery’s mortality risk ()
scPharmaceuticals LLC announces strategic partnership with Sensile Medical to develop novel heart failure treatment aimed to reduce readmission rates ()
Bayer's investigational riociguat granted U.S. FDA priority review for pulmonary arterial hypertension and inoperable or persistent/recurrent chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension ()
HeartWare patient’s death prompts FDA report ()
Gender, cumulative dose may raise amiodarone’s cancer risk ()
Research gets to the meat of the matter ()
More reported hypertension: A sign of progress? ()
Cholesterol buildup & macular degeneration ()
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems announces U.S. distribution agreement with Nonin Medical for Nonin's EQUANOX™ 7600 Regional Oximetry System ()
POZEN announces results from a Burden of Cardiovascular Disease Study: a Managed Care Perspective ()
CHOP collaborates with Pfizer's Centers for Therapeutic Innovation to speed pediatric R & D ()
FDA approves first single-lead ICD with atrial sensing ()
FDA paves way for international cardiovascular registry ()
A revolt against robodocs ()
Squeezing savings from PCI ()
Cardiology slips as acquisition target ()
Report cites inside-out abrasion of Durata lead ()
Small island shows a big heart ()
Mortality rates creep up at critical access hospitals ()
Thoracic-length Heli-FX Aortic Securement System receives CE mark ()
Medtronic announces FDA clearance and first uses of new oxygenation system for adult cardiac surgery ()
A fanfare for software feats ()
Colloquium Grants First Critical Access Hospital Heart Failure Accreditation to Indiana's IU Health Blackford Hospital ()
Most patients tolerate statins in second go-around ()
Adolescents’ poor health behaviors raise risk of heart disease as adults ()
STS unveils updated guidelines on aortic valves ()
Readmission penalties: The good, bad and ugly ()