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Drug-Coated Balloons for the Treatment of CAD

This narrative review discusses drug-coated balloon angioplasty as an alternative to drug-eluting stent for percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with in-stent restenosis and de novo coronary

'Everyone Knows Surgeons Brag About Having Steady Hands': What We Heard This Week

(MedPage Today) -- "Everyone knows surgeons brag about having steady hands, so we decided to put this to the test.

Paul Gordon obituary

My colleague and friend, the psychotherapist, author and campaigner Paul Gordon, has died aged 70.

Where Rachel Reeves can get help on the economy | Brief letters

Good advice | Visionaries | Map trap | Stobbies v Nobbies | Jelly breaks the mouldRachel Reeves claims that she does not see people putting forward alternatives to her measures to manage the economy

My Medical AI Holiday Wish List

(MedPage Today) -- Holiday season 2024 has officially kicked off, and my emergency department is as busy as ever.

Loans and pawned belongings: abortion patients are increasingly going into debt

Abortion debt is swelling.

Gene Therapy Shows Long-Term Vision Benefits in Rare Eye Disease

(MedPage Today) -- Patients with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) due to the MT-ND4 gene variant treated with the gene therapy lenadogene nolparvovec in one eye showed a sustained improvement

A Woman With a Rare Gene Mutation Fights to Avoid Her Mother’s Fate

A mutant gene is coming to steal Linde Jacobs’s mind.

UK to open its first safe drug consumption room amid soaring deaths

The Thistle in Glasgow aims to save lives by providing a supervised environment in ‘Europe’s drug deaths capital’The UK’s first official facility for consuming illegal drugs opens in Glasgow w

‘Free and impartial’ addiction helplines paid secret commission by rehabs

Advertising regulator reprimands services that claim to offer unbiased advice but then direct people to partner facilitiesHelplines that claim to offer “free” and “impartial” addiction support

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