Credit: Thrombolex, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket notification clearance for two catheters invented by Riyaz Bashir, MD, FACC, RVT, Professor of Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (LKSOM) and Director of Vascular and Endovascular Medicine at Temple University Hospital, and Nicholas…
IMAGE: Chandan Sen, PhD view more Credit: Indiana University School of Medicine Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have found a way to charge up the fight against bacterial infections using electricity. Work conducted in the laboratories of the Indiana Center for Regenerative Medicine and Engineering, Chandan Sen, PhD and Sashwati Roy, PhD has led…
IMAGE: Erik Imel, MD view more Credit: Indiana University School of Medicine A new study shows a drug developed in conjunction with investigators at Indiana University School of Medicine to alleviate symptoms of a rare musculoskeletal condition is significantly more effective than conventional therapies. The findings are published in Lancet. X-linked hypophosphatemia, or XLH, is a…
ATLANTA – In August 2018, the CMS announced that Medicare Advantage (MA) plans would be allowed to utilize step therapy for Part B drugs. The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) expressed strong concerns about this proposal. The rheumatology community received some good news in this week’s final rule from CMS, which makes changes to the…
“We now know for sure that Zika virus infection during pregnancy can affect the unborn foetus in such a way that the child develops microcephaly and other severe symptoms,” explains Prof Felix Drexler, a virologist at the Charité who has been developing diagnostic tests for Zika and other viruses at the DZIF. Just a few…
IMAGE: A 3D reconstruction of an angiogram showing the aneurysm circled in red. view more Credit: Taken directly from paper published in American Journal of Human Genetics, May 2019 Brain aneurysms are relatively common, affecting around 2% of the general population Carrying a high risk of death, they can only be treated with difficult surgical procedures…
Paris, France, 21 May 2019. Heart failure is a common cardiovascular disorder with ominous prognosis despite significant therapeutic advances. Mitral regurgitation (MR, leaking of the mitral valve within the heart) affects at least 50% of patients with heart failure and is independently associated with worse prognosis. Timely diagnosis is essential, and management is complex, requiring…
Paris, France, 21 May 2019. Severe symptomatic aortic stenosis, a degenerative disease-causing calcification and immobility of the aortic valve leaflets leading to left ventricular outflow obstruction, is the most common valve lesion leading to intervention in Europe and the USA. Symptoms include heart failure, syncope and angina, and have a dismal prognosis if left untreated.…
A new update to the PCR-EAPCI Textbook for EuroPCR 2019 features new chapters on invasive physiological assessment of coronary disease, and the role of imaging in CTO intervention. It includes updates to 15 chapters including bifurcation lesions and left main coronary artery disease. Additional updates and new chapters are planned to coincide with the ESC…
VIDEO: For the first time ever, UT Austin researchers captured the process in which developing killer T-cells (purple and white) are tested by dendritic cells (yellow), and others, to see if… view more For the first time, immunologists from The University of Texas at Austin have captured on video what happens when T-cells – the contract…