Women with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Face Significant Disease Burden | ACC 2025
April 1st 2025A small, multi-country analysis of women of child-rearing age has found that these patients experience limits on activities of daily living, challenges with the healthcare system and a high overall financial burden.
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Monoclonal Antibody Bentracimab Shown to Reverse Antiplatelet Effect of Brilinta | ACC 2025
April 1st 2025A BLA has been filed for bentracimab and, if approved, has the potential to be the first therapy to reverse the effects of Brilinta for patients who have bleeding events or who need urgent surgery.
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Unrealistic Portrayals of Cardiac Arrest in Contemporary Film | ACC 2025
March 31st 2025Cardiac arrests in contemporary film are largely inaccurate when it comes to survival rate and etiology, according to a poster presented today at the American College of Cardiology conference held March 29 to 31 in Chicago.
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Positive Results for Tirzepatide in Those With the Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Triad | ACC 2025
March 31st 2025Results from the SUMMIT trial suggest that tirzepatide is as effective in preventing heart failure events in those with chronic kidney disease as those without it, and there are signals that it has benefits for renal function.
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Winrevair Shows Promise in Advancing PAH Treatment | ACC 2025
March 31st 2025Marc Humbert, M.D., Ph.D., professor of respiratory medicine at Université Paris-Saclay and Inserm, believes that recent clinical trials have reinforced the potential of Winrevair (sotatercept) as a breakthrough in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) treatment.
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Another Chapter in the PCI Vs. CABG Saga | ACC 2025
March 30th 2025Compared with other studies, the differences in outcomes between percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) narrowed in the FAME 3 five-year follow-up study, but there were fewer myocardial infarctions and repeat revascularizations in the PCI group.
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Abelacimab Shows Promise in Reducing Bleeding Risks for High-Risk Patients | ACC 2025
March 30th 2025In an interview with Managed Healthcare Executive, Christian T. Ruff, M.D., M.P.H., director of general cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, addressed the uncertainty of the bleeding risks of abelacimab compared to rivaroxaban and highlighted abelacimab’s safety profile.
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GLP-1s Are an 'Adjunct to Lifestyle Management' | ACC 2025
March 30th 2025In this second part of his interview with Managed Healthcare Executive, John B. Buse, M.D., Ph.D., a professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine and director of the UNC's Diabetes Care Center, discusses lifestyle management and GLP-1s.
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The Fight to Make GLP-1s Cost-Effective as Demand Increases | ACC 2025
March 30th 2025John B. Buse, M.D., Ph.D., a professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine and director of the UNC's Diabetes Care Center, pointed to research that has shown a price of $150 per month would make the GLP-1s cost-effective as a prevention measure.
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