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Guselkumab 100 mg Every 8 Weeks Consistently Improves Joint, Skin Through Week 24

HCPLive

The COSMOS trial showed guselkumab every 8 weeks improved PsA outcomes through week 48, including in patients with inadequate responses to TNF inhibitors.

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Electronic Sepsis Alerts; Reducing Plaques in Coronary Arteries

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

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Study Highlights Comorbidities Before, After Bullous Pemphigoid Diagnosis

HCPLive

In this casecontrol study, investigators identified relevant comorbidities among individuals with bullous pemphigoid before and after their diagnoses.

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Bifurcation percutaneous coronary intervention in octogenarians and nonagenarians: insights from the PROGRESS-BIFURCATION registry

The American Journal of Cardiology

Publication date: Available online 20 December 2024 Source: The American Journal of Cardiology Author(s): Ozgur Selim Ser, Deniz Mutlu, Michaella Alexandrou, Dimitrios Strepkos, Pedro E.P. Carvalho, Oleg Krestyaninov, Dimitri Khelimskii, Barkin Kultursay, Ali Karagoz, Ufuk Yildirim, Korhan Soylu, Mahmut Uluganyan, Olga Mastrodemos, Bavana V. Rangan, Sandeep Jalli, Konstantinos Voudris, M.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Machine Learning Model Accurately Predicts Long-Term HCC Risk in Patients with HBV

HCPLive

The ML model exhibited better predictive performance than previous traditional HCC models in patients with chronic HBV on long-term antiviral therapy.

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Unexpected heart muscle growth found in patients with artificial hearts

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

A research team co-led by a physician-scientist at the University of Arizona College of MedicineTucson's Sarver Heart Center found that a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart muscle, which may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart failure. The results were published in the journal Circulation.

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Rheumatoid arthritis associated with increased risk for new heart failure

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with a higher rate of heart failure subtypes, according to a study published online Dec. 9 in Arthritis Care & Research.

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Impact of Small Vessel Disease on Patient Outcomes Following Intravenous Thrombolysis For Acute Ischemic Stroke

The American Journal of Cardiology

Publication date: Available online 20 December 2024 Source: The American Journal of Cardiology Author(s): Peiren Zhang, Bin Luo, Peilan Zhang, Xiaoqing Yu, Xiaoyue Long, Yuxuan Du, Haozhi Tian, Liwen Wang

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Sex-Based Disparity in CABG Outcomes: Are We Moving Toward Parity?

NEJM Journal Watch - Cardiology

In a contemporary setting, women continued to have worse outcomes than men after CABG.

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Use Of Cangrelor In Older Patients: Findings From The ARCANGELO Study

The American Journal of Cardiology

Publication date: Available online 21 December 2024 Source: The American Journal of Cardiology Author(s): Piera Capranzano, Paolo Calabr, Giuseppe Musumeci, Carlo Di Mario, Fabio Chirillo, Cristina Rolfo, Alberto Menozzi, Maurizio Menichelli, Diego Maffeo, Giuseppe Talanas, Marco Ferlini, Marco Contarini, Valerio Lanzilotti, Leonardo De Luca

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ECG Blog #461 — STEMI, LV Aneurysm or Neither?

Ken Grauer, MD

I was sent the ECG shown in Figure-1 initially without the benefit of any history? How would you interpret this tracing? What is YOUR differential diagnosis of this tracing? Figure-1: The initial ECG in today's case. ( To improve visualization I've digitized the original ECG using PMcardio ). == The Obvious Concern: I immediately realized the reason that I was sent this tracing: ==> there is ST elevation in the anterior chest leads!

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