Translational Medical Research

WASHINGTON — In this video, Jeffrey A. Sparks, MD, MMSc, discusses two translational studies focused on human tissue for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

Healio | Cardiology Today Editorial Board Member Albert L. Waldo, MD, a pioneer in electrophysiology, died in August, University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute announced.

PHILADELPHIA — The American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, being held Saturday to Monday in Philadelphia, will include the presentation of important science focused on CVD risk reduction with novel approaches and the management of several conditions including aortic stenosis, ACS and HF.

Guideline-based registries designed by physicians, patients and information technology experts demonstrate high data completion and value, with the CONQUER registry specifically showing promise as a growing resource for studying systemic scleroderma in a longitudinal, U.S.-based population, according to data presented at the ACR/ARP 2019 Annual Meeting.

ATLANTA — In this video exclusive, Daniel J. Rader, MD, chair of the department of genetics, chief of the division of translational medicine and human genetics, the Seymour-Gray Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and chief science adviser for the FH Foundation, spoke with Katherine Wilemon, founder and CEO of the FH Foundation, about major takeaways from the FH Foundation’s FH Global Summit, which focused on familial hypercholesterolemia as a driver for precision public health.

A risk prediction score — made up of eight prognostic factors — demonstrated accuracy in determining allograft failure after kidney transplantation.