Despite national guidelines indicating statins can lower risk of heart attack and stroke, many patients who could benefit do not take them. More than half of eligible patients say they were never offered the cholesterol-lowering drugs; the experience of side effects or fear of side effects were reasons for stopping or refusing statins, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association.

International Conference & Exhibition on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

Complex Cardiovascular Catheter Therapeutics (C3)

The 15th Annual Complex Cardiovascular Catheter Therapeutics: Advanced Endovascular and Coronary Intervention Global Summit (C3)! C3celebrates its’ 15 year anniversary this June 23 - 26, 2019 in Orlando, Florida at the Hilton Bonnet Creek. 

The Amputation Prevention Symposium (AMP)

This meeting is dedicated to the transcatheter treatment of clitical limb ischemia (CLI).

This week, cardiologists learned for the first time they have been examining black holes for decades and did not know it. Many cardiologists and radiologists did a double take when they saw the ground-breaking first image of a black hole released by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

ACC Latin America Conference

United by our shared commitment of transforming cardiovascular care, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and Colombian Society of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery (SCC) invite you to join us for an innovative educational experience that will strengthen your everyday practice.

Society of Vascular Surgeons (SVS) 2019Annual Meeting

Chicago Cardiovascular Update

Northwestern Medicine will focus on updates on hypertension, prevention, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, valvular heart disease and acute coronary syndromes. Significant new data and guidelines from 2016 –2017 will represent the platform for discussions.

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

18th Canadian Association for Interventional Radiology Annual Meeting

Smart speakers customarily used in your living room can act as an aid to physicians in hospital operating rooms, according to new research presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s (SIR) 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting, March 23-28 in Austin, Texas. Smart speakers, such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home, offer a conversational voice interface that allows interventional radiology (IR) physicians to ask questions and retrieve information needed for their patient treatments without breaking sterile scrub.

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