Monthly Archives: October 2023

To prevent amputation in patients with severe vascular disease, a device turns veins into arteries

An innocuous slip while cutting her toenails created a wound on Cynthia Elford’s right foot that wouldn’t heal. The Hermitage, Pennsylvania resident has vasculitis, a genetic disease that inflames the blood vessels and stops blood from flowing to the legs. She had already lost her left leg below the knee after a sunburn on the […]

Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Decreased in HIV Patients Who Were Treated With Pitavastatin

Patients with HIV who received pitavastatin had a lower risk of cardiovascular disease compared to patients who received a placebo during a phase 3 trial called REPRIEVE. Researchers of REPRIEVE aimed to determine whether statins, specifically pitavastatin, could reduce the incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events among this population, as the risk of cardiovascular disease […]

Dover’s Brengle settles lawsuit with tennis’ governing bodies over blood testing programs

Dover’s Madison Brengle has settled a lawsuit with the International Tennis Federation and Women’s Tennis Association over how they conduct their blood testing programs. The long-time Top 100 player in the world suffers from a condition that makes inserting needles, including those for blood collections, painful and damaging, to the point she has partial paralysis […]

Mimicking the In Vivo Environment for Cardiovascular Studies

Sponsored content brought to you by Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death globally. They include conditions such as coronary heart disease (CHD), heart attack, high blood pressure, arrhythmias, congenital heart defects, vascular dementia, and stroke. In Europe alone, cardiovascular diseases cause over 4 million deaths each year.1 In humans and other vertebrates, […]

PANDAS Manifestations in a Teenager

This work may not be copied, distributed, displayed, published, reproduced, transmitted, modified, posted, sold, licensed, or used for commercial purposes. By downloading this file, you are agreeing to the publisher’s Terms & Conditions. Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) was first postulated in 1998, and it describes children who develop sudden onset […]

Hitman: Blood Money – Reprisal announced for Nintendo Switch and mobile

Feral Interactive has announced an updated version of Hitman: Blood Money for Nintendo Switch [3,988 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/nintendo/switch/”>Nintendo Switch and mobile. The title is billed as “a comprehensive reworking” of IO Interactive [59 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/companies/io-interactive/”>IO Interactive’s stealth-action game, which was originally released for PC [8,223 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/pc/”>PC, PlayStation 2 [308 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/playstation/ps2/”>PS2 and Xbox [7,456 articles]” […]

100 hospitals and health systems with great orthopedic programs

Becker’s is thrilled to highlight the orthopedic programs of 100 hospitals and health systems across the U.S. These programs are committed to providing exceptional orthopedic care for patients with musculoskeletal conditions or injuries. The programs on this list treat a high volume of patients each year, offer access to various clinical trials and utilize the […]

BayCare to build new St. Joseph’s Children’s hospital by 2030

TAMPA — BayCare Health System plans to build a new St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital by 2030. The hospital will be built on the existing campus at West Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, close to Raymond James Stadium. BayCare has not released details of the cost nor any future plans for the existing hospital. In […]

Cardiology Compensation and Production Remain Relatively Stable Year-over-year

October 4, 2023 — MedAxiom, a premier source for cardiovascular organizational performance solutions, has released its 2023 Cardiovascular Provider Compensation and Production Survey Report that includes data from the largest number of providers since its debut. The report features a foreword from MedAxiom President and CEO Jerry Blackwell, MD, MBA, FACC, on the consistency of year-over-year data […]