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An international team looked at oral anticoagulants and decided dabigatran is the best for stroke prevention in non-valvular atrial fibrillation.

Percutaneous balloon mitral valvulopasty (PMV) has now been around long enough for long term outcomes to be assessed. The verdict is positive.

Data mining may be a promising method to search for unknown drug-drug interactions in cardiovascular medicine.

Lung cancer patients who develop sinus tachycardia due to some treatments for their cancer can successfully reduce their heart rates with ivabradine, researchers in Romania report.

In the ongoing search for subclinical markers of heart disease, Taiwan researchers found that the diameter of the aortic root is a useful predictor.

Heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction do better with cardiac interventions, particularly CABG, a meta-analysis of 20 studies found.

Think you should hang up those running shoes after 65? Think again, Finish researchers report. Older people who spent at least 3 hours weekly working up a sweat and high heart rate had fewer heart events.

Pope Francis plans to appear at the ESC Congress 2016 to endorse the group's healthy lifestyle campaign.

Infants exposed to Zika virus in-utero aren't the only ones at risk of brain damage from the virus. Researchers at The Rockefeller University and La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology believe the virus can "wreak havoc" in almost anyone's brain.

The news that physicians in Princeton, NJ were confronting an outbreak of hepatitis C in young people who were also using heroin shocked this affluent, mostly white community. Ronald Nahass, MD, talks about how it occurred and what needs to happen next.

Doctors who did body cavity searches of a drug suspect without a warrant were named in two out-of-court settlements totaling $1.5 million. The ACLU says the practice is common and doctors should feel free to refuse despite pressure from law enforcement.

California delegation staff attending the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, OH have been struck by an outbreak of norovirus. The jokes were inevitable.

An elderly Utah man who died last month with a massive Zika infection contracted the virus through travel. But how did his caretaker acquire it?

Some public health organizations have urged called off the Olympics, fearing that Brazil's Zika problem could go global. Not to worry, says the CDC.

More evidence is emerging that suggests that Alzheimer’s disease begins early in life.

The FDA approved a new medication for dry eye disease, the first product in a new class of drugs called lymphocyte function-associated antigen 1.

The FDA approved a device that delivers an anticholesterol drug evolucumab, a PCSK9 inhibitor, just one a month.

Though it may seem logical that people who are prescribed opioids to treat pain after surgery are at risk of becoming chronic users, a study of privately insured patients showed that the risk is slight. Over 99 percent of patients in the retrospective analysis recovered without turning to regular opioid use.

People who live to 100 or older tend to enjoy good health, a New York/Boston team has determined. If they do become ill with diseases associated with aging, such as cancer and heart failure, they manifest these illnesses decades later than is typical in people under age 93.

The FDA approved the first fully absorbable stent to treat coronary artery disease.

Veterans are twice as likely to become chronically homeless as other Americans. People who have been in military service make up about 11% of the US homeless population. The good news is that people are trying to help.

The FDA approved a corneal implant to correct near-sightedness.

The introduction of anti-VEGF drugs should have prevented vision loss and even blindness in many diabetics. But physicians are not using these drugs as frequently as researchers recommend, a study finds.

Wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) can be treated with intravitreal ranibizumab or intravitreal aflibercept. Researchers in Japan found they are equivalent in terms of how long patients can go before retreatment, but that one confers better vision than the other.

High-density lipoproteins have long been believed to play a role in the development of age-related macular degeneration. What about HDL?

Genetic factors are at work in determining who gets age-related macular degeneration, and its progression, a German team reported.

In the search for answers to US gun violence there are renewed calls to limit the sale of rapid-fire weapons. That worked in Australia, researchers report.

Taking over from Steven Stack, MD, Pennsylvania hand surgeon Andrew Gurman, MD, is now the president of the American Medical Association. In an interview he discusses his goals.

With long waits for care and a shortage of physicians, the Veterans Administration proposes hiring more advanced practice nurses and expanding their authority within the system. Some physicians are opposed.

The Obama administration's Medicare Czar Andy Slavitt addressed the American Medical Association, trying to ease concerns about a new payment scheme known as MACRA.