Just 21% of academic cardiologists are women—and they earn less than men | Cardiologists unite against burnout

Gender gaps in both representation and salary are especially wide in academic cardiology, researchers found. 

COVID-19 may have caused additional problems for physicians, but burnout was a serious issue in cardiology long before the pandemic. 

The medication is approved for slowing CKD progression in patients with type 2 diabetes. It can also reduce a patient's risk of heart failure hospitalization and cardiovascular death. 

"This is a safe and affordable new data point that can clue us in about who might develop atrial fibrillation," one researcher said. 

Researchers tracked the outcomes of more than 4,500 procedures performed over five years, sharing their findings in Stroke.

David's older brother, Noam Chomsky, reflected on their childhood together in a statement to the press. 

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. That, in fact, is already occurring. One strategy gaining currency among interventionalists, particularly those in Europe, is to try a high-pressure balloon first in cases of moderately severe calcification and, if the device fails to fully expand, re-enter the vessel with atherectomy. 

Emergency physicians have a tough time identifying patients who have Crohn’s disease and truly need a CT scan to pinpoint the cause of acute abdominal distress.

Multiparametric US uncovered signs of organ damage in post-COVID individuals and proved more accurate than MRI and CT for some indications, experts reported in the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.