Guidelines advocate changes in fatty acid consumption to promote cardiovascular health.
This papers summarizes evidence about associations between fatty acids and coronary disease.
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Professional Affairs
January 17, 2015
January 12, 2015
The incidence of bacterial endocarditis has significantly increased in the UK and this coincides with a 90% reduction of antibiotic prophylaxis for dental work according to the 2008 NICE guidance which recommended against its use.
This video from the AHA describes the study and implications for the future.
December 20, 2014
A fictional paper authored by Simpsons characters Edna Krabappel and Maggie Simpson, as well as someone called Kim Jong Fun (who we can only imagine is a slightly more approachable relative of North Korea’s leader) has just been accepted into two scientific journals.
December 19, 2014
A $400,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation will be used to create a database of retractions from scientific journals, extending the work done by Adam Marcus
December 3, 2014
Program directors from 6 distinctly different training centers assessed educational costs for CT resident training. Before formal accounting information was explored, the PDs estimated the annual cost per resident to be $250,000. The actual costs per year per resident ranged from $330,000 to $667,000, with a mean of $483,000. Faculty teaching cost
November 11, 2014
CMS determined that the evidence of benefit for CT screening for lung cancer is sufficient to permit this as an annual benefit for Medicare and Medicaid recipients in the US. The availability of such coverage will be limited, however, by the need to have the screening as part of a comprehensive counseling (smoking cessation, etc) visit with qualifie
November 5, 2014
The authors examined cost-effectiveness in the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), examining incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) associated with low dose CT screening. The ICER was $52,000 per life-year gained and the $81,000 per QALY gained. These values were very sensitive to variations in the scr
November 5, 2014
Challenges of balancing reduced costs and improved quality were explored for congenital heart surgery linking clinical data from STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database patients to administrative data from the Pediatric Health Information Systems Database. Excess costs associated with any complication were over $56,000, and this increased to more than
October 13, 2014
Recorded during the the 2014 EACTS Annual Meeting in Milan, Italy, this roundtable discussion addresses the duty of candor in medical practice.
October 12, 2014
EACTS Secretary General A. Pieter Kappetein discusses highlights of the 2014 EACTS Annual Meeting taking place in Milan, Italy.