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Hearing Loss and Heart Failure; Improved TAVR Outcomes
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115190.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center...


SCOTUS to Mull Whether Insurers Must Offer Certain Preventive Services for Free
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115201.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in a case that could affect what kind of preventive care is covered at no charge under Americans' health insurance plans. The case, known as Kennedy v. Braidwood, involves Christian...


Hearing Loss May Play a Bigger Role in Dementia Than Previously Thought
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115179.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Hearing loss may play a bigger role in dementia than previously thought, data from a U.S. cohort study suggested. In a sample of nearly 3,000 older adults, up to 32% (95% CI 11.0%-46.5%) of incident dementia over 8 years could...


For Pregnant Women With Mechanical Valves, LMWH Tied to Worse Outcomes
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115177.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- However scant, the available data on pregnant women with prosthetic valves did suggest worse outcomes with mechanical prosthetics and low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH)-based anticoagulation. In a prospective global registry...


Is Trump Getting Guideline-Recommended Care for Cardiac Risk?
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115157.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- After findings from President Trump's annual physical exam were released last week, observers were struck by the persistent aspirin use recorded in the doctor's report. Trump, 78, has no apparent history of cardiovascular disease...


Diabetes, Heart Disease Drugs Recalled; New Trump Order; Maple Syrup's Health Claims
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115144.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. MedPage Today is collecting stories of HHS staffers across all agencies affected by Trump administration cuts. If you want to share your story, please email MPT_Editorial...


Hearing Loss & Heart Failure; BP Drug Released From REMS; Fecal Transplants for PAH?
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115138.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- In a prospective cohort study, hearing loss was associated with incident heart failure, a relationship partly mediated by psychological distress. (Heart) A retrospective analysis from Israel suggested that markers of poor hydration...


Registry Data Reassure on JAK Inhibitors' Heart Risks
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115129.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Suggestions that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients suffer more cardiovascular events when treated with Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors compared with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) blockers or other biologic drugs were not borne out...


Read the Results of Trump's 2025 Physical Exam
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115125.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- On April 11, 2025, President Donald J. Trump underwent his annual physical examination at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. I performed and supervised the comprehensive exam, which included diagnostic and laboratory...


Vaccine Advisors to Meet; Donated Organs Left Unused; Counterfeit Ozempic Warning
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115123.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. MedPage Today is collecting stories of HHS staffers across all agencies affected by Trump administration cuts. If you want to share your story, please email MPT_Editorial...


Emergency Care for Cannabis Use Tied to Higher Dementia Risk
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115116.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- People who required emergency department (ED) or acute hospital care for cannabis use may have an increased risk of a subsequent dementia diagnosis, a retrospective matched cohort study of 6 million people in Canada suggested...


Another Push for Upfront Ezetimibe-Statin Combo Soon After MI
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115113.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Adding ezetimibe (Zetia) therapy to statins early after a heart attack improved outcomes, Swedish national records suggested. With statins almost universally used in this setting, people who also got upfront ezetimibe in the...


Renal Outcomes Seem to Differ by Gender After Living Kidney Donation
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115095.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- BOSTON -- After living kidney donation, projection of renal function may vary by gender, a retrospective cohort study of 174,311 living kidney donors suggested. Over a median 6.7 months, the incidence rate of worsening post...


Healthy Aging and Diet; Global Effect of Cardiovascular Risk Factors
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115087.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center...


One Diuretic May Be Better for Hypertensive Patients With Kidney Stone History
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115091.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- BOSTON -- In people with hypertension, a history of kidney stones may inform the choice of diuretic for stone prevention, according to a secondary analysis of the Diuretic Comparison Project. Among 1,164 older veterans with...


Narcolepsy-CVD Link: Stage Is Set as Early as Childhood
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115085.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The link between narcolepsy and cardiovascular disease (CVD) was strengthened by new evidence that the relationship applied to subclinical disease and was apparent early in life, based on a retrospective cohort study. Across...


LuX-Valve Shows Promise, a Nod to Growing Diversity of TTVR Devices
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115067.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The global flurry of innovation in tricuspid valve interventions continues in the wake of Evoque's release, as illustrated by the 1-year report for a Chinese-made device that has already progressed to a second-generation iteration...


Study: Increased Heart Risk Isn't a Given in Rheumatoid Arthritis
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115052.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients face very different risks for cardiovascular disease and events depending on their body mass index (BMI), use of biologic drugs for RA, and, crucially, whether they carry anti-citrullinated...


Tiny Dissolving Pacemaker; Low-Risk TAVR in Real World; 'Fake' Cardiologist Arrested
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115019.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Engineers developed the smallest pacemaker yet: a device smaller than a grain of rice, activated by light, and meant to dissolve after it has met the patient's need for temporary pacing. (Nature) FDA gave clearance to CardioVia...


Does a Measles Infection Protect Against Cancer and Heart Disease?
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115008.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- As measles continues to spread through vulnerable communities in the U.S., HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested that there are long-term health benefits to contracting the virus, despite decades of data that suggest...


Comorbidities in Midlife Tied to Cancer Risk
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115004.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Comorbidities in midlife were associated with a modestly higher risk of cancer overall and more strongly associated with a risk for multiple individual cancer types, according to a secondary analysis of the prospective Prostate...