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To Stress Test or Not Post-PCI
A prespecified subgroup analysis of diabetic patients in the POST-PCI study, which randomized patients post-percutaneous coronary intervention to routine stress testing vs. standard care at one year and followed for two years, has shown that adverse cardiac outcomes and death rates were not improved by routine stress testing.
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Long-Term Follow-Up Confirms Efficacy of Invasive Strategy in Very Old Patients with Non-ST Elevation ACS
In this long-term analysis of patients in the After Eighty Study, with a mean age of 85 years and non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome, an invasive strategy showed a reduction in a composite endpoint of major adverse cardiovascular events and was associated with a significant improvement in event-free survival compared with a conservative approach.
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Safety and Tolerability of Inclisiran
A pooled analysis of seven relatively short-term ORION studies of inclisiran vs. placebo for lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol that assessed safety and tolerability for up to six years showed that inclisiran has similar rates of adverse events, excluding injection site reactions, as placebo treatment and is associated with fewer major adverse cardiovascular events.
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Do Patients with Heart Failure Feel Better on Dapagliflozin?
An analysis of the DETERMINE studies of dapagliflozin vs. placebo in patients with heart failure showed some improvement in self-reported symptoms in those with reduced ejection fraction on dapagliflozin but not in the six-minute walk test. No improvements in symptoms or physical activity levels were found in those with preserved ejection fraction on dapagliflozin.
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Patients with HIV Support Clinic-Based Contraceptive Care by Pharmacists
New research shows that women with HIV infection and who happen to be high users of contraception support receiving contraception prescriptions from pharmacists.
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Patients with Kidney Disease Need Better Contraception Access, Information
People with chronic kidney disease often lack adequate contraception counseling, care coordination, and access to a full range of contraceptives, new research suggests. Patients also report emotional challenges surrounding reproductive health.
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Fetal Personhood Laws Give Zygotes the Same Rights as Pregnant Women
Laws based on the concept of fetal personhood are creating a catch-22 for women who experience pregnancy crises or whom health system staff suspect of having engaged in wrongdoing.
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Lawsuits Filed to Restore Women’s Reproductive Rights
South Carolina, Texas, and other states have consistently targeted Planned Parenthood clinics with lawsuits that fail and then are appealed repeatedly.
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A Partial List of 2023 Lawsuits on Abortion and Reproductive Rights
Reproductive rights attorneys were busy in 2023 and are continuing the legal fight in 2024.
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Ever-Changing Legal Landscape Leaves Providers, Women, and Lawyers on Edge
Reproductive health lawyers nationwide are trying to help women maintain access to abortion and contraception, but the appeals and lawsuits are unending. Lawyers committed to reproductive health causes have filed lawsuits to maintain people’s access to contraception, reproductive healthcare, and abortion care.