The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists has released a statement on hormone replacement therapy and cardiovascular risk, emphasizing that HRT does not appear harmful in younger women in early menopause and may indeed be beneficial in this group. Heartwire
Two-dimensional ultrasound speckle-tracking imaging is already widely available and easy to do and has been studied as a screening tool for cardiomyopathies. The authors of a new study suggest it also has a specificity and sensitivity of 78% for detecting heart-transplant rejection. Heartwire
Results from ADVANCE-1, a study testing the novel anticoagulant apixaban in the prevention of venous thromboembolism, showed that the drug missed its primary end point, failing to meet statistical criteria for noninferiority when compared with enoxaparin. Heartwire
