Professional Associations

This page includes news coverage of medical associations and medical societies. Use these links to find focused news coverage from specific organizations: Cardiology Associations, Healthcare Associations, Radiology Associations.

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AMA analysis of Medicare Trustee data shows Medicare updates compared to inflation 2001-2021.

More than 100 medical societies push Congress to end destructive cycle of annual Medicare cuts

More than 120 medical societies have joined the AMA in a letter urging congressional leaders to enact long-term solutions to the systemic problems in the Medicare physician payment system and to address cuts that are going into effect in 2023.

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The fight continues: Cardiologists turn up heat on Congress to stop Medicare payment cuts

Dozens of medical societies have signed a new letter urging Congress to stop upcoming Medicare payment cuts. “The Medicare payment system remains on an unsustainable path threatening beneficiaries’ access to physicians," they wrote. 

Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) Shockwave Medical PCI PAD CAD Disrupt PAD Disrupt CAD SCAI 2022

Is IVL equally effective in male and female patients? Shockwave Medical aims to find out with a historic new study

Shockwave announced at TCT 2022 that it hopes to enroll up to 400 patients for a new all-female clinical trial.

The tricuspid valve anatomy is ofrten complicated for transcatheter structural heart interventions (TTVR) by the placement of pacemaker or ICD leads.

VIDEO: Addressing tricuspid valve regurgitation with new transcatheter interventions 

Joao Cavalcante, MD, of the Minneapolis Heart Institute, discusses new structural heart interventions to treat tricuspid valve regurgitation.

Transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVr) is associated with “promising” short-term outcomes among patients with a history of cancer, according to new research published in the American Journal of Cardiology.

MitraClip and TriClip TEER devices continue to show positive results

Two late-breaking studies at the 2022 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting provided positive data for Abbott's MitraClip transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR) device and the TriClip for transcatheter tricuspid valve repair (TTVR).

The Pulnovo pulmonary artery denervation catheter. In February 2021, the devices was granted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) breakthrough device designation. #TCT2022 #PAH

Pulmonary artery denervation shows promise to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension

Pulmonary artery denervation may offer a new therapy option for this difficult-to-treat population.

The Pascal transcatheter mitral valve repair system. Similar to the latest version of the MitraClip, the Pascal can operate each leaflet independently to grasp the mitral valve leaflets. Results of the CLASP IID trial at #TCT2022.

Pascal transcatheter mitral repair device performs as well as MitraClip in late-breaking CLASP IID Trial 

Comparison between transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) devices found Pascal was non-inferior compared with MitraClip in the CLASP IID pivotal trial.

Use of ultrasound to guide needles used for femoral vascular access for cath lab procedures can help reduce bleeding and vascular complications. But the Universal Trial at TCT 2022 showed no difference. Image courtesy of Sonosite

Ultrasound guidance for femoral access did not reduce bleeding or vascular complications in TCT late-breaker

The UNIVERSAL Trial, one of the largest multicenter randomized trials comparing ultrasound with fluoroscopic guidance vs. fluoroscopic guidance alone, found there was no reduction in major vascular access complications. 

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