COVID-19 relief bill could boost patient care | Plant-based diets & stroke risk | AFib screening among older patients

Biden signed the legislation Thursday, March 11, one day earlier than expected. 

Eating a healthy plant-based diet—meaning a diet high in plant-based foods, not necessarily one that is exclusively plant-based—has been linked with lowering a person’s overall stroke risk by up to 10%.

The new study, published in JAMA Cardiology, included more than 800 hypertension patients aged 75 years or older. 

The company also hopes to launch an early feasibility study in the United States in the near future. 

"This study has important implications for guidelines on fish intake globally," one researcher said. 

As more and more Americans receive their COVID-19 vaccine, heart failure patients and heart transplant recipients may have specific questions about how they should proceed.

The study’s authors explored data from more than 900 low-risk patients who participated in the PARTNER 3 trial.

Rather than a binary choice—atherectomy or lithotripsy—the market for treating severely calcified lesions seems likely to evolve into a mixture of both technologies. 

An MIT spinoff based in Boston and Milan in Italy has earned CE certification for software that flags respiratory infection in wearers of the company’s smartwatch devices.

ABR emphasized Wednesday that it will never call diplomates asking for payment on the spot.