Clinical

This channel newsfeed includes clinical content on treating patients or the clinical implications in a variety of cardiac subspecialties and disease states. The channel includes news on cardiac surgery, interventional cardiologyheart failure, electrophysiologyhypertension, structural heart disease, use of pharmaceuticals, and COVID-19.   

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South Dakota, Hawaii bookend states with fewest, most COVID constraints

Compared with the Aloha State, the Mount Rushmore State is a practical free-for-all during the COVID-19 crisis.

May 5, 2020
PPE

Almost 80% of US nurses worry about infecting loved ones with COVID-19

A national sampling of more than 15,000 nurses is collectively reporting “infecting family and friends” as the profession’s single most pressing concern during the COVID-19 crisis.

May 5, 2020
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Quest Diagnostics invites healthcare consumers to request their own COVID antibody tests

The company announced the service launch April 28, saying individuals who want the test can request it online—cost: $119—without referral from a doctor.

April 29, 2020
Contact Tracing

Is a COVID showdown ahead between Google–Apple and governments?

Governments around the world have their own COVID contact-tracing apps already up and running—and several U.S. states have indicated they like their own solutions just fine.

April 28, 2020
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5 notable quotes from COVID-19 physicians

Several physicians on the front lines of the battle against COVID-19 have taken to the pages of online and print publications to share their firsthand experiences.

April 28, 2020
Social Media

Facebook still a favorite soapbox for COVID-19 fibbers

The media watchdog NewsGuard has compiled a list of Facebook users who seem only too happy to “repeat, share and amplify” everything from quack cures to conspiracy theories.

April 21, 2020
COVID

Formidable nurses’ union suing over ‘grossly inadequate and negligent’ COVID protections

If the group’s actions are successful against the three entities named, unions representing healthcare workers elsewhere in the U.S. may be incentivized to take their cases to the courts in similar fashion.

April 21, 2020

Former FDA commish Gottlieb is bullhorning COVID-19 recovery. Who’s listening?

It’s been just about a year since Scott Gottlieb, MD, resigned as FDA commissioner. The COVID-19 crisis has drawn him back into the public eye. Could he become more influential now than ever?

April 14, 2020

Around the web

The agency is urging healthcare providers to transition away from these devices and seek out alternatives. It is even working with other manufacturers to try and get similar products on the market as quickly as possible. 

Jeffrey Kuvin, MD, one of the leading voices behind efforts to create a new Board of Cardiovascular Medicine, spoke with Cardiovascular Business about where things stand today.

Half a year after President Biden officially directed federal agencies in the executive branch’s bailiwick to “seize the promise and manage the risks” of AI, the White House has posted a status report.

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