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September 2013

Little support for disease prevention benefits from hormone replacement therapy (09/30/2013)

Equine-derived estrogen may hold higher risk than estradiol (09/30/2013)

Jury to hear suit over pacemaker implants (09/30/2013)

Wiki 101: Med students earn credit for online editing (09/30/2013)

Micell Technologies announces DESSOLVE I manuscript accepted for publication in American College of Cardiology's Cardiovascular Interventions journal (09/30/2013)

Closing PFO may be better at stroke prevention than medical therapy (09/29/2013)

Physicians take to the Hill as protectors of patients (09/28/2013)

Mega-practices on rise as docs favor larger groups (09/27/2013)

ED visits common after surgery, especially for PCI, CABG (09/27/2013)

New York Cardiovascular Associates website wins 2013 Outstanding Website Award (09/27/2013)

Marriage & PCI make for a good match (09/27/2013)

World Heart Federation: A healthy heart relies on your feet (09/27/2013)

Bill gives FDA oversight of compounders (09/26/2013)

Ohio State's heart program names 2013 Schottenstein Laureate (09/26/2013)

Inappropriate vs. rare (09/26/2013)

Study comparing stroke therapies receives $2 million national research grant (09/26/2013)

Bayer's investigational drug riociguat granted FDA orphan drug designation for treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (09/26/2013)

Amarin announces enrollment of the REDUCE-IT cardiovascular outcomes study surpasses 6,000 patients (09/26/2013)

Pain from radial artery harvesting resolves within first year (09/25/2013)

Congenital heart defects may raise kids’ risk of endocarditis (09/25/2013)

Ablation lowers stroke rate across all risk profiles (09/25/2013)

Based on registry data, FDA revises Sapien label (09/24/2013)

Six visionary health leaders named Canada’s 2014 Hall of Fame inductees (09/24/2013)

Cardiology hits the Hill lobbying for quality health care (09/24/2013)

Absence of calcification predicts CTA misdiagnosis (09/24/2013)

Care beyond 30 days of acute MI admission eats up most spending (09/23/2013)

PCI may be overused in men and whites (09/23/2013)

Hospitals' nesiritide use declines at different rates (09/23/2013)

Inappropriate use drags on SPECT MPI’s prognostic value (09/23/2013)

ACC registries give snapshot of trends (09/22/2013)

Atherotech Diagnostics Lab bolsters Research efforts with addition of Abate as Chief Clinical Officer (09/20/2013)

July effect: Not in a month of Sundays with EP (09/20/2013)

TCT.13: TAVR, stents & more on docket for late-breakers (09/20/2013)

EHRs may underestimate quality of care (09/20/2013)

Cribbs joins UAB as director of new Adult Congenital Heart Disease program (09/19/2013)

Expanded definition reveals post-PCI bleeding more common (09/19/2013)

UNLV, Sen. Reid Announce $20 Million NIH grant to support clinical health research (09/19/2013)

Digging data (09/19/2013)

Remote monitoring of ICD patients not often used, despite availability (09/19/2013)

Use of hospitalists fails to boost heart failure outcomes (09/19/2013)

Texas Heart dismisses lawsuit (09/18/2013)

Volume, mortality influence CABG readmission rates (09/18/2013)

Gov. Perry announces $3 million grant to create Center for Cell and Organ Biotechnology (09/17/2013)

Smart phone strategy: Reminder call helps control blood pressure (09/17/2013)

Symphony Health Solutions, American College of Cardiology announce collaboration in support of advanced research (09/17/2013)

HeartSine recalls public access defibrillators (09/17/2013)

Changing of the Card: MD Employment, Exodus & Exploration (09/17/2013)

Cardiac Pipeline: What Radiopharmaceuticals Offer (09/17/2013)

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Reducing 30-day Readmissions and Improving Patient Health (09/17/2013)

Bundling Bandwagon: Hold Your Horses (09/17/2013)

Non-chest pain ACS symptoms more common in young women (09/17/2013)

Coronary CT angiography may cut ED costs by 23% (09/17/2013)

Sanofi pulls lixisenatide’s FDA application (09/16/2013)

TCT at 25: An International Success Story (09/16/2013)

Consider CABG in patients with diabetes, multivessel disease (09/16/2013)

Managing Leads: Lessons from the Experts (09/16/2013)

ACC Corner | Closing the Gaps in Care Among ACHD Patients (09/16/2013)

Screening & Football: Some Call ‘Foul’ (09/16/2013)

Saving More Lives: Turning the Tables on Resuscitative Care Training (09/16/2013)

Q&A: Giving Image-guided Stroke Trials a Boost (09/16/2013)

Webb receives Lifetime Achievement Award for hypertension research (09/16/2013)

Progress in PAD: Where MR Steps In (09/16/2013)

A Measure of Success (09/16/2013)

Minorities have more MI risk factors, but targeted less by prevention efforts (09/13/2013)

Unused medications may lead to abuse, overdoses (09/13/2013)

3D Volume Echocardiography: Answering the Challenges of the Right Heart (09/12/2013)

3D LAVImin better predictor of cardiac outcomes? (09/12/2013)

Number of female physicians has increased, but salary has not (09/12/2013)

Award Winning Healthcare Provider Gains 1,200 Additional Cases in Seven Months Post-Installation and Substantial Decline in Report Turnaround Time (09/11/2013)

CDC: 200,000 heart disease deaths preventable (09/11/2013)

Delayed AF catheter ablation could mean worse outcomes (09/11/2013)

Peritoneal dialysis to treat strokes? (09/10/2013)

FD-OCT more accurate than IVUS and angiography (09/10/2013)

Certain risk factors may predict poor pediatric cardiomyopathy prognosis (09/09/2013)

Age, cardiac abnormalities predictors of ICD perforation (09/09/2013)

Reduced door-to-balloon times have not reduced STEMI mortality (09/06/2013)

Simple teaching may improve accuracy of LVEF estimation (09/06/2013)

ESC.13: Newer drug-eluting stents outshine others in women (09/05/2013)

Pre-CABG measurement of FFR may trim number of grafts (09/05/2013)

AHA.13: Special reports on tap (09/05/2013)

Conference kickoff (09/05/2013)

Polypills may improve adherence in CVD patients (09/03/2013)

Robert and Janice McNair Foundation names Dr. Emerson Perin a McNair Scholar at Texas Heart Institute (09/03/2013)

ESC.13: Saxagliptin offers no cardioprotective effect for at-risk diabetics (09/03/2013)

ESC.13: Aliskiren doesn’t slow coronary disease progression (09/03/2013)

Cardiovascular surgeon dies in plane crash (09/03/2013)

ESC.13: Risks of stopping DAPT after PCI vary (09/02/2013)

ESC.13: Colchicine may offer protection against recurrent pericarditis (09/02/2013)

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