Physician-patient gender concordance may not matter in interventional practice

While some studies suggest female patients treated by female physicians have better outcomes, there does not appear to be a relationship between operator and patient gender and outcome in patients undergoing coronary angioplasty or stenting. These are the results of a first-of-its-kind study by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Cardiovascular Consortium (BMC2) and…

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A Snack Bar Gets Into Frozen Dessert

Kind bars have been around since 2004, and its line of products, primarily fruit and nut mixtures, has grown; the company has now introduced a frozen plant-based dessert you could happily mistake for high-end ice cream. Its main ingredient is not some alternate milk, but pear juice. The rich, complex flavors, mostly swirled abundantly with…

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