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Cardiologist Who Revealed Echo Errors Out of a Job

MILWAUKEE -- A cardiologist whose research at a national medical meeting revealed that other doctors at her hospital were misreading a substantial number of diagnostic echocardiograms has been fired by that hospital, the Journal Sentinel and 麻豆传媒 have learned.

ACC: Clopidogrel Black Box Likely to Have Immediate Clinical Impact

ATLANTA -- The FDA's decision to add a black box warning to the label of clopidogrel (Plavix) came without warning to doctors attending the American College of Cardiology meeting here. But getting the word out to more than 13,000 cardiologists gathered in this city not an easy task.

AHA: FDA Drops Clopidogrel Bomb at AHA

ORLANDO -- The FDA has issued a public health advisory warning patients and physicians that concommitant use of clopidogrel (Plavix) and omeprazole (Prilosec and Prilosec OTC) blunts the antiplatelet effect of clopidogrel, so the combination should be avoided.

ESC: In CABG versus Stent Trial, the Edge Goes to Bypass

MUNICH -- The latest round in the surgeons versus interventional cardiologists appears to have gone to the surgeons. So it would seem from today's roundtable discussion at the European Society of Cardiology meeting here.

Drug-Eluting Stents: What Causes the Thrombosis?

GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- Although the problem of stent thrombosis has been acknowledged, it is not at all certain what the circumstances are that trigger formation of a thrombus.