Emory University

Physicians living in regions with a high incidence of medical malpractice claims may be more susceptible to ordering advanced Medicare imaging as a defensive medicine strategy, according to published results.

Higher levels of psychosocial resilience in Black adults indicated better CV health as indicated by Life’s Simple 7 scores compared with lower levels of psychosocial resilience, researchers found.

Black patients living in socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods may represent the most at-risk group for 30-day HF readmission compared with white patients and patients living in less deprived areas, a speaker reported.

The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer issued a clinical practice guideline on the use of immunotherapy for the treatment of multiple myeloma.

Women hospitalized with acute MI and cardiogenic shock may undergo less aggressive treatment and have higher rates of in-hospital mortality compared with men, researchers reported.

In the United States, rates of COVID-19 were 1.4 times higher than the national average in counties with higher-than-average Black and Hispanic populations, according to recent data.

Drinking coffee may reduce the risk for disease progression and death among patients with advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer, according to results of a prospective observational cohort study published in JAMA Oncology.

There is modest evidence that the ketogenic and intermittent fasting diets may have favorable CV effects, according to a review published in the American Journal of Medicine.

The addition of daratumumab to lenalidomide, bortezomib and dexamethasone benefitted Black patients with transplant-eligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, according to data presented at Society of Hematologic Oncology Annual Meeting.

Menopause can be a good time to start addressing CVD risk reduction even though it should be discussed way before then, according to a presentation at the virtual Heart in Diabetes Conference.