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'Words Like Catastrophic Come to Mind': What We Heard This Week

(MedPage Today) -- "Words like 'catastrophic' come to mind.

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Evolut Low Risk TAVR Still Chugging Along, Now Halfway to Trial's Finish Line

(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) continued to hold its own against surgery for younger patients at low surgical risk, with the Evolut Low Risk trial now h

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Cerebral Embolic Protection for TAVI Doesn't Cut Strokes, Trial Affirms

(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Routine use of devices to prevent cerebral emboli during transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) did not prevent strokes, a large randomized trial showed.

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Eli Lilly Drug Reduces Mysterious Lp(a) Particle Involved in Heart Attack Risk

The Eli Lilly drug caused a major drop in the blood levels of Lp(a), but further research is needed to show that it will prevent heart attacks and strokes.

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STAT+: FDA’s ‘key man’ Peter Marks is out. Biotech investors will now deal with the consequences

Peter Marks’ ouster comes at a time when the sector is already suffering through a years-long public markets slump.

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Vulnerable patients will lose vital support with Pip cuts | Letters

Alex Fisher highlights how disabled people will be hit hard by the government’s welfare changes.

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We Can't Scroll Past This Dark Hour for Medicine

(MedPage Today) -- I am a 25-year-old Gen Z student in my last year of medical school, so without fail I do the same thing every morning, the moment I wake up: I scroll.

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Boys With Cancer Can Face Infertility as Adults. Can Storing Their Stem Cells Help?

(MedPage Today) -- A man who battled childhood cancer has received the first known transplant of sperm-producing stem cells, in a study aimed at restoring the fertility of cancer's youngest survivors

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Enthusiasm Dries Up for Fluid Restriction in Heart Failure

(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- For people with heart failure (HF), the long-presumed benefits of fluid restriction did not pan out in the FRESH-UP randomized trial.

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How a ban on food dye in West Virginia has forged an unlikely alliance

GOP lawmakers and consumer advocates have found common ground in banning preservatives and chemicalsA West Virginia law signed this week bans synthetic dyes and preservatives in food – a first-in-th

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