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Participation in cardiac rehabilitation following surgical or transcatheter aortic valve replacement varies greatly from hospital to hospital, although researchers observed a correlation between participation and treatment strategy.In a presentation at the American Heart Association Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions, researchers showed that participation in cardiac

Pacira BioSciences Inc. reported increased total revenue and net product sales in its first-quarter 2022 financial results, according to a press release.The company reported a net income of $6.8 million and a total revenue of $158 million, an increase of 33% from the prior year period. Net product sales were $129.2 million for Exparel, $23.6 million for Zilretta and $3 million for Iovera,

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Proper positioning directly after surgery is key to preventing displacement when treating giant retinal tears, according to a speaker here.At the Retina World Congress, Niels Crama, MD, FEBO, said that air is his first choice of tamponade but that he sometimes uses SF6 20% or silicone oil 5700 cs. Slippage can be avoided by performing position-guided fluid-air

Philip D. Greenberg, MD, FAACR, has been elected American Association for Cancer Research president-elect for 2022-2023.He will become the association’s president at the AACR Annual Meeting in April 2023.

Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. announced its first-quarter 2022 financial results, highlighted by increased net sales and the completion of the spinoff of ZimVie, according to a press release.The company reported a first-quarter net sales of $1.663 billion, an increase of 3.9% from the prior year period. The company also reported net earnings of $73 million from continuing operations for the first

Myriad symptoms and three different sets of classification criteria make Sjögren's syndrome a challenging diagnosis, according to a presenter at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East.“Sjögren’s is an oft-neglected topic in rheumatology,” Fredrick B. Vivino, MD, MS, of Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, in Philadelphia, said in his presentation.

Researchers developed a patient preference survey intended to show maximal acceptable risk for using a kidney replacement device and willingness-to-wait for devices with lower risk.“Catalyzed by U.S. regulatory reform and the Kidney Innovation Accelerator (KidneyX) prize competition, there has been unprecedented [kidney replacement therapy] KRT research and development in recent years. It

In the second installment of a three-part video series, Heather Stefanski, MD, PhD, discusses the potential role of umbilical cord blood as a stem cell source.“Ethnically diverse patients are appropriate candidates for umbilical cord blood because they don’t have to be perfectly matched, and the chance of getting graft-versus-host disease is less with umbilical cord blood,”

SAN DIEGO — Patients with a malpositioned IUD had a higher risk for pregnancy within 12 months of ultrasound IUD ascertainment compared with patients with properly positioned IUDs, according to data presented here.

The FDA has approved Radicava ORS oral suspension for the treatment of adults with ALS. Radicava (edaravone, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma) was originally approved in 2017 as a treatment for ALS via IV infusion, the FDA said in a press release.