(MedPage Today) — Use of suspended lead suits during percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) was associated with significant reductions in echocardiographers’ radiation exposure to the head as compared with conventional lead aprons…
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Routine Mammograms That Also Flag CVD: Two Birds With One Stone?
(MedPage Today) — With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), routine screening mammograms could identify women at higher cardiovascular risk, a retrospective cohort study suggested.
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Even Patients Are Shocked by the Prices Their Insurers Will Pay
(MedPage Today) — Samantha Smith of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, went into the operating room for emergency removal of an ectopic pregnancy. “I’m grateful I didn’t die,” she said, but she was shocked to see that the outpatient surgery was billed…
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Tiny Blood Smidges in the Brain: Amount and Location Tied to Dementia
(MedPage Today) — The location and amount of brain microbleeds that a person has could be telling of their risk of dementia, according to an observational analysis.
Compared with controls with no cerebral microbleeds detected on MRI, there was… -
Study Questions Use of Prostate Cancer Hormone Therapy in Certain Cases
(MedPage Today) — SAN FRANCISCO — Adding hormone therapy to postoperative radiotherapy did not improve overall survival (OS) for most men with prostate cancer, according to a meta-analysis of individual patient data.
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Beware of Radiation Doses Among Heart Scanners, Study Says
(MedPage Today) — Cardiac imaging centers around the world may need to update their protocols and equipment, suggested findings of a large-scale study of radiation effective doses to patients undergoing diagnostic testing for coronary artery disease…
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Reining in Overdiagnosis of Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Easier Said Than Done
(MedPage Today) — As many as 94% of ultrasound-based papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) diagnoses represented overdiagnosis, particularly among women, according to a computer modeling study spanning three decades.
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Should We Do a Shoulder MRI? Food Prescriptions for Diabetes
(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 Texas Tech Health El Paso, look at the top medical…
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Stereotactic Radiation Better for Patients With Multiple Brain Metastases?
(MedPage Today) — Stereotactic radiation improved key quality-of-life outcomes among patients with multiple brain metastases compared with hippocampal-avoidance whole-brain radiation (HA-WBRT), a phase III randomized trial showed.
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First-of-Its-Kind Device for Pancreatic Cancer Wins FDA Approval
(MedPage Today) — The FDA approved a tumor treating fields (TTFields) device for locally advanced pancreatic cancer, the first therapy approved in this setting in nearly 30 years.
Dubbed Optune Pax, the wearable device delivers alternating electric…