The U.S. Government promised to have 20 million people vaccinated by Jan. 1, 2021 with just the Pfizer Vaccine. Even with two vaccines now approved, U.S. vaccinations for COVID stand at less than 4.5 million on Jan. 4, 2020. Getty Images The Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines were hailed as a major accomplishment in modern science and as the beginning of the end for COVID. This very well may be true, but it absolutely will not happen as fast as the government has led us to believe. #COVID19 #COVID #SARScov2
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COVID Vaccines May Make the Future Brighter in 2021, if They Ever Arrive

There was much fanfare over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorizations (EUAs) in December ...

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Who Can Get the COVID-19 Vaccine? Roberto Lang, M.D., director of noninvasive cardiac imaging, University of Chicago Medical Center and former American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) president, received his first dose of the COVID vaccine in December. In addition to front line hospital workers, nursing home staff and residents also qualified for the first round of vaccinations. Right, Shannon Yaw, a nurse at a hard-hit nursing home in Michigan, received her first dose just before Christmas.
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Who Qualifies for the COVID Vaccine Under CDC Guidelines

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dec. 3, released an interim guidance document to federal, state ...

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First Patient Treated With Harpoon Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair Device in U.S. Trial. #TMVR
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First Patient Treated With Harpoon Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair Device in U.S. Trial 

December 29, 2020 — Edwards Lifesciences announced Dec. 21 that the first patient was treated in the RESTORE clinical ...

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Coffee and tea are good for your heart, heart healthy. Top News Stories in 2020 From the European Society of Cardiology
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Top News Stories in 2020 From the European Society of Cardiology

December 29, 2020 — Here is a list of the top 10 news stories from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in 2020 that ...

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Health Canada has approved the expanded use of the Edwards Lifesciences Sapien 3 and Sapien 3 Ultra transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) heart valves for the transfemoral treatment of patients diagnosed with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis who are at low risk for open-heart surgery. #TAVR #TAVI
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Edwards Sapien 3 TAVR Valve Receives Expanded Approval in Canada

December 29, 2020 — Health Canada has approved the expanded use of the Edwards Lifesciences Sapien 3 and Sapien 3 Ultra ...

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COVID-19 related topics by far out-paced all other topics in cardiology in 2020 on the DAIC website. Several stories topped the list related to the cardiovascular issues with hydroxychloroquine being used as a treatment for the virus. Top new device technologies in 2020 included European approval of the Abbott Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve, FDA approval of Medtronic's new Micra AV pill-sized pacemaker, and FDA clearance of the first drug-eluting stent with short-duration dual-antiplatelet therapy.
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Top 25 Stories in Cardiology in 2020

Here are the top 25 best performing articles on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) website from 2020 ...

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This year's top videos are dominated by COVID-19's impact on cardiology and many of the videos from a series produced this year on Tuft Medical Center's cardiology program. Top DAIC cardiology videos from 2020 #TuftsmedicalCenter #Tufts #COVID19
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Top 25 Cardiology Videos on DAIC in 2020

Here are the top performing 25 videos on the DAIC website in 2020. The picks are based on Google Analytics of the DAIC ...

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Demonstrations videos of new technologoies are among the most popular video content on the DAIC website each year. Included this year are videos showing how it install a subcutaneous ICD, CT photo-realistic rendering, How to implants the Micra leadless pacemaker and many others.
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Video Demonstrations of How Cardiovascular Technology Works

December 23, 2020 — Demonstrations of new technologies and explanations of how they work are among the most popular ...

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Thrombus formation in the aortic arch in a 46-year-old COVID patients in the ICU. Three trials are underway to find which anticoagulant strategy is best to treat moderate and critically ill patients where COVID-causes venous thrombo-embolism (VTE) is a major cause of complications. Image courtesy of Margarita Revzin et al.
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NIH Pauses Anticoagulant Trial For Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients

December 23, 2020 — Three clinical trial platforms working together to test the effects of full doses of anticoagulants ...

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ACC, AHA Issue Updated Performance Measures for Adults with Atrial Fibrillation or Atrial Flutter

December 23, 2020 — The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) has made two ...

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The FDA December 18 issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a second COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna for use in individuals 18 years of age and older. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Vaccine
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FDA Approved Second COVID-19 Vaccine From Moderna

December 23, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration December 18 issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a ...

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Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell (pink) heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (teal and purple), isolated from a patient sample. Image courtesy of NIAID. MIS-C Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. #COVID19
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NIH Begins Study of COVID Infection and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)

December 22, 2020 — An observational study has launched to evaluate the short- and long-term health outcomes of SARS-CoV ...

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With the FDA clearance of the Vital Data Sensor, Biotronik's Biomonitor IIIm features two-in-one detection, providing physicians the ability to monitor for early signs of potential life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias and body temperature increases potentially associated with fever.
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FDA Clears Fever-Detecting Cardiac Monitor From Biotronik

December 22, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared Biotronik's Vital Data Sensor, which identifies ...

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VIDEO: Rising Interest in Remote Monitoring of EP Devices in the COVID-19 Era

Robert Kowal, M.D., chief medical officer of the Medtronic cardiac rhythm and heart failure division, said there has ...

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The stent struts of the Biotronik Orsiro stent.
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New Stent Kink Resistance Testing Proposed in ASTM International Standard

December 21, 2020 – A proposed ASTM International standard will answer the need for a standardized test method that ...

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