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June 11, 2021 Women are conspicuously absent as leaders of cardiovascular clinical trials—now, an “actionable road map” aims to rectify this imbalance by itemizing the core competencies required to lead a clinical trial, and by offering concrete steps that institutions, professional societies, industry, and public funding agencies can take to ensure clinical trials get more female principal investigators and chairs. “We must adopt transformative strategies to harness the strengths of women as CV clinical trial leaders and deconstruct the sexism that has been normalized in the clinical...

December 21, 2020 Doctors put their own lives on the line in 2020, and in this tumultuous year—which saw a global pandemic, a deeply divided United States, plus eroding public confidence in science—they have been inspired to do something they’ve shied away from in the past: speak out. The desire to take a stand on something that’s not strictly “medical” is a relatively new phenomenon for the profession, where clinicians of all stripes have long been urged to keep their lives and views to themselves. The advent of social media, however, has provided a place to speak out within the...

December 10, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed hospitals and healthcare like nothing else this past century. Physicians themselves have fallen ill or died, passed the infection to their loved ones, and weathered grief, burnout, suicides, furloughs, and financial losses. As case numbers and fatalities continue to mount, some doctors are pinning their hopes on the notion that the pandemic has rocked the foundation of medicine, deconstructing and reinventing standard procedures in ways that could improve care down the road. That by providing a footing for new ideas, new technology, new voi...