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Doctor Finds ‘Energizing’ Second Career as PI

Velocity Clinical Research

Cromwell, MD, FAHA, FNLA, FAAFP, is board-certified in Family Medicine and Clinical Lipidology with over 20 years of clinical research experience. A s he reflects on his accomplished multi-decade medical career, Cromwell realizes that it is the clinical trial research work itself that brings him the most joy.

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Velocity Clinical Research Expands to Poland

Velocity Clinical Research

Velocity Clinical Research, the leading multi-specialty clinical sites business, announced it has expanded into Poland, acquiring its first site, ClinMedica Research. The site is recognized as one of the best research facilities in the country by Sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs).

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Artificial intelligence could improve heart attack diagnosis to reduce pressure on emergency departments

Medical Xpress

An algorithm developed using artificial intelligence could soon be used by doctors to diagnose heart attacks with better speed and accuracy than ever before, according to new research from the University of Edinburgh published in Nature Medicine.

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Counting patients social determinants of health may help doctors avert fatal heart attacks

Scienmag

Doctors may be able to predict their patients’ risks of fatal coronary heart disease more accurately by taking into account the number of adverse social factors affecting them, according to a new study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian. The researchers, whose findings appear Dec.

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Tools to predict stroke risk work less well for Black patients, study finds

STAT News

Stroke risk prediction tools are meant to guide how doctors approach a potentially deadly condition, using factors like heart disease and high blood pressure to get a handle on which patients might benefit from a particular treatment.

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Pediatric heart transplant method developed by U of A doctors allows for more surgeries, better outcomes: Study

Scienmag

Blood type-incompatible heart transplant surgery for infants under the age of two pioneered in Canada, now used worldwide Credit: Lindsey Kemp A pediatric heart transplant procedure pioneered by Canadian doctors–once deemed impossible–has been shown to be at least as effective as the traditional approach, according to newly published research (..)

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Researchers describe rare case of heart rhythm problem in newborn with Turner syndrome

Scienmag

(Boston)–Doctors treating babies born with Turner syndrome need to look for heart rhythm abnormalities, in addition to the usual heart problems of high blood pressure or left-sided structural heart defects, according to Meena Bolourchi, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine.

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